Im not liking my odds

[GoldenRivet]

I have been playing a career since the start of the war with SH3 commander (realistic career length off) and GWX with 100% realism.

I have survived a few close calls and have made it to mid 1943 aboard a very successful boat.

Im starting to feel the heat here in 43 as usual, BUT because i have been keeping a written log book of my Kaleun's exploits in the atlantic it lends a certain quality to each of the men on the boat... it gives them character, and you can see them grow from a green crew to a team of experienced sailors and officers. though it does sound silly it lends a new level of immersion to the game to keep a log.

Initially finding targets and evading escorts was easy, BUT:

After a long drawn out depth charging encounter with a skilled destroyer during which i had to dive to 240 meters... and encounter that nearly cost me everyting.

after an encounter with the British fighter patrol that jumped us out of nowhere and fired rockets at us which splashed into the sea narrowly missing during our crash dive.

After having a black swawn come rishing out of the fog and rain with guns blazing and escaping certain death by the skin of a gnats arse.

After having a group of British bombers dive onto us early in the morning hours only to have the drop bombs into the sea causing the lights to go dark for a moment.

Im surely feeling the U-boat war heat up in the Summer of 1943! Every time i leave port anymore i have the feeling that it will all soon be over for us all. It will either be that black swan angry over us sinking his ducklings blasting us to pieces with his deep reaching sensors. or it will be that rocket attack from the fighters that i dont crash dive in time to evade.

the odds of reaching the end of the war grow slim with each passing day.

so question: what would you do?

A. Turn on realistic career lenght in SH3 commander and retire?

B. Accept whatever hand fate deals you and rest forever in the dark silence of the deep with the rest of the U-boatsmen?

C. Surrender the boat if in a hopeless combat situation?

D. Try to survive to the end of the war and make things as inconvinenient as possible for the enemy.

My commander has become ultra-conservative when it comes to attacking targets. Lone merchants, or convoys in deep water only. Rarely if ever on the surface by day... travelling on the surface only between the local hours of 10:00pm and 4:00am and running slow and silent at 50 meters by day.

what would you do? i would really hate to lose this career, but i also want to try and play through to '45.