Still amazes me...

[PappyCain]

The sim amazes me still ...


I set up 3 boats from the same flotilla to patrol in the year 1940 (fall). I assigned one boat to be a seasoned skipper who knows many tricks, and new skipper who was an exec and now has his own command, and the third is right out of the chute - eager but tentative.

I put on the personae of the each and I just played #3 with his band of young sea pups.

He tracked a convoy well enough but his interception was off. Indecision. He spotted a straggler left behind whose bow was plowing and saw that as easy meat. But 4 eels missed with shots to the tramp's stern at night using the surface UZO - the tramp steamer then put the lights on him as best they could (his exec. said 'we are in for it now, the escorts will come back'. Watch said 'no sign of the convoy' so they reloaded the tubes and hung back 1500m.

Then star shells. The young kaleun decided to reverse direction and run at flank speed away. He knew his crew was green and they did not have a chance. The escort came to the aid of the tramp steamer like a mama elk defending her lost charge.

Red faced the Kaleun knew he better shape the crew up as well as himself.

In his log he noted a 'submarine' in the convoy ... maybe 4 escorts. Plan is to head east for another intercept when they head NE. It is a gamble.