My rant was well justified. Now I know its a bug from altering depth straight after a crash dive order, it shouldn't happen again now i know how to avoid it.
On a much brighter note, I ran into a convoy in thick fog outside Gibralter on my way back to La Rochelle. Took a shot in the dark and fired at a 14000 ton Ceramic Ocean Liner from 2700 mtrs, with a 4 torpedo salvo. 3 out of 4 torpedos struck home sending it straight down.
Before I knew it I had THREE destroyers bearing down on me. I had to dive right down to 250mtrs, but even then they were still able to find me on their ASDIC. With the boat actually holding depth now, I was able to command the boat properly. I played cat and mouse for a while before I finally managed to give them the slip and they started to lose sight of me. Decoy's didn't seem to help much though unfortunatley when I used them. But that's what I'm talking about. Despite sustaining some minor damage to the flak guns from a few close cans, I loved every minute of that depth charge attack.
But it does make you wonder what the real guys went through. It must have been a terrifying ordeal.
But, after leaving La Rochelle November 1942, U128 successfully made it back and docked back at base on April 9th 1943. Some 5 months at sea, what a cracking time it was.