Hopefully this will not count as necro-posting but ever since March 2019, the vast majority of posts in the SH3 Forum have been related to questions or problems. Although I have been guilty of posting both, SH3 is really made to be played so...
Using NYGM3 6F with a bunch of minor mods and playing DiD.
U-1009 OLzS Gerhard Haas, 11th Flotilla commanding
On the afternoon of June 4th 1944 took U-1009 out of Bergen for her first patrol bound for Square AE88. The boat was fully fuelled and provisioned for sixty-days. That evening dived and the boat has run submerged since, usually snorkelling twice a day. In good weather eight or ten hours of snorting at 5-knots really helps the speed of advance otherwise it's 3-knots at 30-metres and barely 80-90 nm per 24-hours. Now it is June 16th and the boat is still days from the objective.
On June 6th a message from BdU informed that the Invasion of France had begun but no new orders were received so U-1009 continues towards her map square. Later that day a warship group was detected by hydrophone effect in Square AF79. Successive bearings provided a rough course and an intercept course was set but it proved impossible to close although did briefly spot a warship's mast at the limits of visibility. Returned to base course and after contact was lost, the boat was spotted while snorkelling by a pair of single engine aircraft, no doubt from an aircraft carrier. Quick action retracting the snort and diving to 50-metres evaded the four depth charges that were dropped.
Passing through the Iceland-Faeroe's Gap was very slow due to many Coastal Command air patrols but yesterday and today have been able to snorkel for most of the day except now the weather has deteriorated and the best speed of advance on the snort is just 3-kts. Figure four to five more days to AE88 and forty-days rations will remain allowing 2-weeks on station.
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