GWX: Equipment availability and Wonky Air

[joea]

Hi gents, left Nov 2, 1943 on my way to DJ16 on patrol 6 with some poorly working batteries and diesels and one non-functional AA gun. Poor spare parts and/or verdammt French resistance or lazy dockworkers.

Ok 2 issues:

1) I was in part at the end of October 1943...but still can't upgrade my Metox RWR...the upgrade screen says I should be able to change to Naxos but the choice was not available.

2) Much more important. Left Brest, met up with a u-flak in the morning and was heading out when attacked by some Mosquitoes. I elected to try to fight it out....given that I had some protection was in shallow water and ummm my experience is that the other boats get attacked first.

First odd thing was they were the 57 mm canon armed version (not due til 44 in the GWX manual) but were not using it nor did they seem to use their rockets. Second thing was how they seemed to pop in and out of visibility on the map view i could see the triangle and then it was replaced by the RWR detection line...it was as if the sim could not decide if I could see the planes by visual or radar detector. I could see them myself very clearly from the bridge and my guys would shoot at them, though not consistently. Another annoying consequence was the first time a plane was spotted I'd get the pop up window asking me what action to take several times in a row to the point I could not do anything else. Even if I clicked "maintain current action" and checked the "make this default action" box it would keep coming up. I got through ok I guess they ran out of ammo, only got minor damage and one plane "crashed" but no kills so ok on that score.

What can you folks advise me??