Not sure how any given Kaleun would say I play. Running GWX1.03 with only map contacts updated on the "realisim" factor. I play DID.
I keep the map update on, because as many have said, as a true Kaleun I'd have one of my officers plotting visual/ acoustic contacts during any attack. If at all possible I would also plot out firing solutions. Don't take but a few seconds, and it ensures Bernard moments happen as seldom as possible. I always try to set up each solution twice. If there isn't time, once will do, but I've run the triple setup more than one on a nice fat lone tanker.
I do go after escorts on convoys where I have the possibility of dropping more than 100kt. Not only must the tonnage be there, but ordanance and Mother Nature must also be smiling on me. I refuse to SWAG a shot. BdU don't pay to have good boomsticks thrown away.
When evading I do my best not to hit the hammer, or start dancing my boat wildly. Silence, stealth, and cunning are my true weapons.
When on patrol, I spend as much time at 20m as I can. Both to conserve fuel for when I really need it, and to develop my own contacts.
I Limit my patrol times. 45 days in a VII, and 65 in a IX. Unless I can hit up a milchcow, or supply ship. If the patrol will force me to longer duration, I Find a way to stop at a resupply point, or say Frack BdU and do what damage I can in the time alloted.
I love, repeat, love my DG. And I'm wicked good with it. I use it every time I can that will not endanger my boat unnecesarily. Take care of the Boat, don't waste my loadout, take care of my crew.
If I can I will shadow a convoy as long as I have to to get the approach I want. And the Tonnage. If it looks like the Bolo Brigade I observe, report, and continue the Hunt.
I plot my patrols around known convoy or mercahnt routes. I don't waste fuel chasing every contact report fron Bdu.
I will never again fire at a Tramp Steamer. It's not the tonnage, I just have to waste way too much to put them down. They got Karma on me.
