Finished my 5th patrol

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Finished my 5th patrol last night on type VII B, 82% realism setting

I'm with 2d Flotila and I was assigned to grid DH 77, but I never got there... When I reached gulf of Biscay I decided to return to base, cause I was worried about the fuel and I only have 5 torps left, 2 bow torps and 3 stern torps.

On the way back I didn't get any contact, so I still have 5 torps left when I arrived at Wilhelmshaven. It's because I was in a hurry, I just wanted to finish the patrol asap. It's past 1 am and I have to go to work at 7.30

I found out that I can sink a Large Merchant with only one torp if I aim for the bow. I always fire two torps at big tonnage ships. One aim at the bow and the second one at the smoke stack or behind it.

Last night when intercepting a convoy, I fired two torps at one Large Merchants... Pistol impact, depth set at 4 m ... and then followed by two more torps at the second Large Merchant behind the first one. I wasted two torps, because after the first torp hit the bow, both ships exploded and sank.

I also found out that fuel consumption is better if I set the engine telegraph at Ahead Slow and then set the speed at 6 or 7 knot.

Total tonnage 75 k something, renown collected so far is about 7600 renown. I can upgrade my boat to type IXB now, but I'm still about 400 renown short for a promotion to Kapitant Leutnant. So I'll wait until after the promotion and then upgrade to type IXB.

I'm going to increase the realism setting a bit by disabling the WO assistance, or enable the realistic ship sinking time .. or maybe both, but i'll leave the "manual targeting" on ... for a little longer.

I'm positive that I'll be promoted to Kaleun and get the type IXB after my 6th patrol