100k patrol for Dummies

[filefool]

2 days ago i started a my first patrol ever with a IXB. Ever since i play SH3 i've never upgraded to a IXer because i like to drive a sports car not a SUV.

Anyways i got out of Wilhelmshaven, sank an empire freighter (a beautiful ship) north of scapa on my way to the irish sea and promptly got a contact report about a big convoy going SE.

The first ship in this convoy that my men spotted was not a merchant but a battleship, the HMS Nelson. I prepared me and my crew for a lot of escort vessels and shadowed the convoy, waiting for dusk.

At night i slipped right into the convoy and sent a 3 eels salvo into her port side. 36k with one strike. Awaiting the immediate response of some A&B or Black Swans i did quick periscope search before i wanted to get some depth under my keel.

I found no escorts.
I searched again.
No escorts.
I checked the hydrophone contacts.
No warship contacts.
I listened for myself on the hydrophone.
No fast moving propeller sounds.


I cleared the convoy and surfaced. THERE WERE ABSOLUTELY NO ESCORTS!
25 targets, about 10 of them big or middle tankers and i had 18 torpedoes left.
It was March 1940, so none of those ships was armed, the sea was calm and i still had all of my deck gun ammo.


It felt like cheating and opening a christmas present at the same time.

I got 9 with torpedoes and 3 with the deck gun, giving me about 125k after this slaughter.

As i am playing GWX 2.0 the question is, did i got lucky or is this some kind of bug?