Iron Coffins - is the AI too easy??

[horrgakx]

I've read with interest the threads about GWX AI being quite hard on the player. Well, I thought this too. That is until I read "Iron Coffins" by Herbert Werner.

He describes first hand how he battled the improving Allied sub-hunting technology and how he was battered by Destroyers and Aircraft, particularly late in the war. After reading it, and being in 1944/5 in SHIII, I get the distinct impression that we really have it easy in the game.

Its a stunning read and I was surprised how I could relate to events within the game. The Amazon UK link to it is here; http://tinyurl.com/ys5c4m and the synopsis follows;

This is a story of triumph, disaster and eventual survival - against all odds. Herbert Werner was one of the few U-boat commanders whose skill, daring and incredible luck saw him safely through to the end of the war. His is an epic and chilling description of the fearful havoc wrought by one small U-boat on the Atlantic convoys. But easy success ebbed away in the face of ever-improving Allied detection and attack techniques. The hunters became the prey, to suffer appalling losses. Of 842 U-boats launched 779 were sunk, 'iron-coffins' to 28,000 men. Herbert Werner's graphic account of war waged from beneath the sea, of horror and cold, cruel death, is dedicated to the seamen of all nations who died in the Battle of the Atlantic.


Dave