They never had a chance

[GoldenRivet]

Started a new career n 8/39 and headed out for a shake down cruise... then on patrol 2 i headed into the atlantic.

I encountered a large convoy near rockall bank, inbound, I had already used 4 torpedoes sinking a couple of merchants on the outbound passage. One escort out front was the only protection they had

i infiltrated the convoy around dawn undetected and scoped them out, not a single armed merchant in the bunch... broke contact and reintercepted them around noon. Sent the escort to the bottom with a keelbuster shot.

Surfaced the boat and closed in on a large tanker, sunk it with a spread of two, additionally i lined up on a tramp steamer and sank her with a single fish.

Maneuvered into firing position on a large merchant, fired a spread, she absorbed the hits but eventually sank.

I continued this tactic of "shoot and scoot" until i exhausted all my torpedoes, then switched to the deck gun... it was a slaughter. I started to lose count of the number of ships that were dead in the water burning from end to end.

when it was all said and done, i had exhausted my armament and only 4 merchant ships remained afloat.

in the end i had about 97,000 GRT to my credit.

Given my realism settings i was pretty surprised by this amount of tonnage seeing that its roughly half of what most aces got in a 10+ patrol career but i wont complain... such opportunities dont come along often.