[Oldgamer48]

@Cpt. Lehmann

I don't see anything to argue with you about. I've only been sunk once, since I started playing 2.1, and that was when I made a truly stupid mistake. I made an almost perfect submerged attack on a freighter. I checked with my soundman to see if he had a contact, which he didn't. I even went into his station and listened, for myself.

Feeling confident and secure, and not wanting to waste another torpedo on the freighter, I surfaced to finish it off with the deck gun. When I broke the surface, the damned thing started firing guns at me! Instead of doing the sensible thing and going back down, I decided, "It's just a freighter. I can take him!"

By the time I realized what a terrible mistake I'd made, the U-36 was going down, and for the last time. Before I reached crush depth, I got the message, "She's going down!"

If I were a real Kaleun, I'm sure that my crew would be truly irritated with my caution. I'm careful ... after the pitiful spectacle I made above ... because a U-Boat is a fragile thing. Because of this, casualties are low, damage is minimal, and I'm going up in BDU's estimation.

If you do stupid things in war, you get killed. If you're an officer, you get other people killed, too.

By the way, I've quite a collection of books about the Atlantic War, and listening to actual accounts of actions at sea by real U-Boat captains has convinced me that the conversion is very close to the real thing ... as close as you're going to get in an arguably flawed simulation.