Perhaps the most important piece of advice is that once you've fired your torpedos, start evading. That will give you a 5 minute head start, enough to get down in the cellar
If you wait to dive until they are coming after you, it's already too late.
You can get away with staying near the surface early in the war against a thinly protected convoy, but not against a task force mid-war or later. As soon as your last eel leaves the tube, you turn around and start to go deep. Then, when your sonar guy reports "Torpedo treffer", you can crash dive if you aren't deep enough yet. Until then, no faster than 1/3rd speed.
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The U-Boat Commander of Love
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