So I'm on my first patrol with my new XXI. It is an
awesome boat. Wow. As modelled by the game, in numbers, it would be a war winner.
Long story short, after bagging some lone merchants, I take on a juicy convoy in the Heb's with only four escorts. I have five homing torps, so I like my odds. After 3 hours of real-time play, I demolish the escorts and ravage the convoy. I take some minor damage after running too shallow under a merchant to avoid a charging destroyer on my tail, but that's about it. 77K- not my biggest, but for an 8-day patrol, I can certainly handle it! So I boot home to Bergen, and am just about at my base when BOOM. I hit some stupid ****ing Bergen defense (net? mine?) and am killed. I didn't save on the way home because, well, I was on my way home.
Now, I'm all for realism and such, but I have no desire to spend another hour trying to navigate friendly defenses. Honestly, this is one spot of realism I could do without. I don't count this as a real death, as in real life, only a buffoon would get nailed by their own defenses and/or they would follow in the escort if they were thick (which isn't practical in this game). This is just a really annoying end to an otherwise brilliant patrol.
Oh well, better luck with the reload, and I'm now saving every time I come close to those ****ing fjords!