New career,New Flotilla,New Year,New crew

[maddysad]

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Hi All,
Sailed out of Wilhelmshaven for all my previous careers (starting Aug 1939)
Decided on a "new" start and went for St Nazaire 1940 did the obligitory sail round the bay sinking target ships and was ordered to patrol DH54
Decided to break in my green crew by taking them a sightseeing trip towards Gibraltar, and on returning to my plotted course, receive message of convoy heading East.........Straight towards me.
OK lads, it will consist of a couple of merchants, destroyers and we're on GWX3 .......easy pickings for your first patrol.....just as well cos I only have ONE fully experienced watch crew. No repair quals or anything else for that matter
Dive to get fix on them, there they are, 3 contacts 315 degrees, Long distance, plot course to intercept and the sonar guy starts shouting out multiple contacts....I've stumbled on a massive convoy can only "see" 3 DDs....and approx 20 - 25 Merchants 6 broad 4 deep (what is an"Empire"....new to me)... My crew are green as grass, The "Bay" narrows towards "Gibraltar Strait?? "meaning anything I slow down might trap me in narrow waters if I hang around for kill.........Advice please......It normally takes me about 5 -6 patrols to find anything on this scale...and I've had 200 Km of The Atlantic to play with before landfall.

btw I enjoy playing DiD...save the episode for practice but start new career

maddysad