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Originally Posted by Hellraiser
I think what you describe has to do with the time of war.
Sounds like 1939-40. The escorts are not very good at all...as they historically weren't during the early war years.
Now try that same thing from mid-1942 on and you will not last long. The escorts improve dramatically from 42-45 ....like they historically did. GWX does an excellent job of modeling the constant improvement in escort capability.
In some ways, having it easy in the early war years will get you killed quickly later on because you develop BAD habits and underestimating them later will surely cost you your crew & boat.
I really believe this is what happened to the real life Kretschmer, Schepke & Prien among others...they got complacent.
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Oh Um, I was just about to reply to the query when I stumbled upon Hellraiser's and he put down what I was about to state.
In the middle of a[n out of print] book titled 'one of our submarines' by Edward Young [British Sub operations in the Second World War], one of the passages relates to 'bad habits' which is far too long winded to go into here but I recommend the book, if you can get hold of it !