[Sigurd]

U-32 is back in port, and here is what I found.

After reaching the Newfoundland coast, I was bombarded with Warship contacts. Each one of them came from south of Newfoundland, and rounded the cost up to the north, and continued on their way from what I could tell. All of them heading about 9 knots, so they were interceptable, I just didnt for reasons I'll get into in a minute.

Once you reach the Canadian Coast (around Halifax), the warship contacts get replaced by Merchants, and appear at around 1/3 of the rate (at least). Fealing lucky, I decided to head into Halifax harbor, and sink all the Merchants. I didn't get a chance to explore the entire harbor, but none of the merchants were very good. The best one I sunk was a Troop Transport (actually, its the only one I was able to sink). I left the harbor with some trouble from the patrols, but luckily they never found me.

Around then, I decided to head back to the supply ship instead of heading down to the Halifax Convoy assembly point. Why? Fuel. The weather was bad, so I know I was burning more fuel then I could afford to, plus I needed to keep enough in my engines to make it back to the supply ship if I wanted to patrol again. You actually have to burn almost half of your fuel to even reach Halifax, and you cant keep chasing contacts on the surface like you would be used to patrolling English Waters. Even if I did make it to the assembly point, I'd probably be forced to sail underwater to save fuel.

All in all, its not a bad hunting ground. Its theoretically possible to reach at the beginning of the war in a VII-B, but I'd wait until you get a IX-B at least so you have more fuel to burn.