DiD ; why this one hurts so much

[Wulfmann]

It is 1943 and my Type IXC has returned from patrolling the far south shipping lanes between Montevideo and Capetown (Hmm, I have actually been to both of those cities IRL)
57K tons and I head home.
Next patrol and I try the route between Brazil and Freetown Africa. at 37K I save the game run another 48 hours at 2048TC and save again at the end of July.
Next day I go to start and CTD. So, I try the one save before and CTD.

I put it aside to look at the Doc file later (never have been able to fix it that way but WTH) and play some CoDWaW that evening.

Next day while online on my other (this) PC I decide to fire up the game PC and run a test.
Starting at the last patrol (erasing the 37K tons i earned) I decided to run out into the Atlantic, make a couple saves, exit the game, restart the PC and see what happens.
I wondered if I had used a save name already used the patrol before (I save like this P24S1, P24S2) so If I mistakenly forgot this was the next patrol and reused the last numbered one maybe that was why CTD.
It is just a test and i will restart that patrol from base but I just wanted to test the name I had saved.
I quickly routed the U-Boat through Lorient and out to sea and then swicthed over to my email stuff.
The sound was still on the SH3 PC and heard mein Gott and switched over to see U-boat sunk by collision.

Now, this was just a test but I have a rule about these things. It does not matter how why or any excuse DiD even in a case like this.
I would always feel I cheated if I made any exception so this career is over but , man, what a sad way to end it.
Had I (carefully) plotted the course like I always do (around the slow escort) this would not have happened but alas, I did it and that is that.

Back to 1939 all over again!

Wulfmann