[msalama]

S! all again, and thanks for the warm welcome the other day. This is a nice community, one where even a n00b like myself feels right at home immediately

But anyway, being the beginner that I am I've set up a couple of simple missions to get myself acquaintanced with submarine warfare, and one of them goes a bit like this:



So it's all very basic stuff as you can see, and in this case the goal, of course, is to survive that Hunter and his DCs.

OK, so no problem there, and I actually did succeed in fooling the bugger and subsequently escaped him by running silent & deep. But then, after having surfaced again later on, I suddendly heard my watch officer call out "flugzeug gesichtet!". And yes indeed; I had just the time to grab my binoculars to see a RAF Sunderland diving towards me with a seemingly dead-serious intent of putting my sorry a*se out of the U-Boot business, so down under we crashed again pretty sharpish

He missed, however, so I lived to fight another day. But how the HELL did he came about??? Did that Hunter call him up or what? I most certainly didn't put him in there myself!!!

Now don't get me wrong. This is not a gripe but on the contrary a praise, in that surprises like this are just the coolest thing IMHO It's just that I didn't know there's seemingly a built-in random element to the missions in there somewhere - or is the AI actually so clever as to request for air support if they deem it worthwhile?

And oh yeah - that particular cat-and-mouse session lasted 16hrs game time before I was finally in the clear

And yep, I'm still totally jazzed up from the encounter...

S! all again and happy hunting. What an EXCELLENT simulator this is!