Feeling a bit lonely in 1939

[DirtyACE]

Started a new career with GWX2.0. It's my first with this version. Got to my patrol area without any problems or any decent targets either. All I found on the way was a measily tug boat and a sloop. Sank both using the guns, no point in wasting torpedos on them. Had an Anson appear overhead just north of Scapa Flow and had to dive. Patrolled my assigned area and then went looking for action in the famous tanker alley. Arrived at the alley and began doing hydrophone sweeps but no ships. Spent a week there. Finally picked up one signal which turned out to be an American small tanker and that's it, absolutely nothing else. It was so bad that it caused me to go on a harbor raid.

Got to Plymouth and voila what do I see, Hood, parked nicely in the center dock. Now this is more like it. I approached her head on and was thinking of using the magnetics to take her out. Fired off 3 torps at about 11.5 depth but they all blew up right at the tip of the bow, weird how they didn't go underneath it. Afterwards I had to do some fancy maneuvering to get my self into a nice corner of the dock for a clean shot from the side. Still using magnetics. I put a fourth torp just below her second frontal turret which causes a fire to ignite but nothing else, so now it's looking like it's going to take five torps. I reload in the mean time. As soon as the first tube is ready again I fire, this time underneath her superstructure. The torpedo strikes home and sets off a massive explosion which with the new explosion mod it looks huge and this finally destroys her.

I quickly go silent and get the hell out of there. The patrols never picked me up.

Well, that's my patrol so far. If it wasn't for Hood, I really would not have had any decent targets. I'm crossing my fingers I find more ships before I have to head home. I don't remember 1939 being this quiet in the previous version of GWX. Anyone else have a similar experience?