Well, I think Otto Kretschmer was very lucky to be captured and lived that time, especially in 1941, before Allied's radar was very much improved. He could have ended up dead or worst later in his career if he had managed to get away instead of being captured. I have done surface raiding or fleeing in early war years, but after 1943, it seems too impossible to be invisible from their radar.
Sometime just for fun, I went after convoy on clear day while the water was smooth as ice in 1944, couple grids away from England or Ireland, once I am around 1000-2000m in front of incoming convoy, I raise my depth to snorkel and hit flank to be detected, then crash dive toward and under the convoy. Why did I do that? In game, I attracted Allied’s bombers, they came and dropped so many bombs on merchants and destroyers, while I was watching bombers damaging or destroying their own ally ships using external view feature. I doubt they would be so stupid in real life, lol, so it just one of exploits in this game.
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