Today I left and returned from my longest patrol ever which took 40 days, it was soooo long because while on middle of my patrol I received the msg from BDU ordering all north atlantic uboats to gather along the coast of Norway. At that time I was passing north from Scapa Flow to the west, so I changed course to north around Lerwick, btw sank a poor tramp steamer and was heading ESE to take position at western fiords of Norway. It took very soon to discover that I have arrived way too early, since invasion to Norway really began at 09/04/40.
So I had plenty of time ~15-20 days to do nothing and just wait
Thanks to TC I've shortened this sit-and-wait period to 20 minutes and finally it started to happen
. I've never seen before such intensive action in the North sea. And with GWX 2.1 mission orders mod it got way too immersive
Task forces from both German and British sides, other u-boats arriving to take part in action, any new "message received" message
rises the tension even more to it's peek, while continuosly thinking what will soon happen here
Almost constant heavy sea made actions slower, but I still managed to intercept one of the task forces moving 28 knots and sink the Renown class battleship!
Later few days I kept circling around NNW from Bergen.. but with failure to make any new contacts with enemy ships, ploted course back to Kiel since all of my crew felt washed-out after spending so much time in the sea..
The whole way home I kept receiving new messages with what is happening and knew I could continue battle since I had 7 torps left total, bit more then a half tank of disel, but couldn't help myself to whisk away the urge to fall in bed and take a looong pleasant rest..
07MAR40 - 15APR40 (40 days)3 (2/1)52194 (3834/48360)
Grid AF 77Ship sunk! S.S. Trevarrack (Tramp Steamer), 1965 tons
Grid AN 24Ship sunk! S.S. Bronxville (Coastal Freighter), 1869 tons
Grid AF 49Ship sunk! HMS Renown (Renown class), 48360 tons