1st Patrol to U.S. coast and.......

[iambecomelife]

Originally Posted by panthercules

I only made one patrol to the East Coast, where I managed to find and sink only a couple of lone merchants (small coastal and a C2) around Boston - When I tried to head into NY I found nothing but tons of DDs and Elco/PT boats, eventually getting killed by some uber-early-radar-toting 4-stacker DD that somehow spotted me as soon as I surfaced at all-ahead-slow at 2am on a moonless night from 6,800m away

So much for the Second Happy Times

Now I'm on my second patrol in my Type IIA in October 1939, so it looks like it'll be a while before I get to see the East Coast again.

What random and scripted layer mods are you using? The American escorts ought to be utterly incompetent up until maybe late 1942 or 43. What's more, there seem to be excessive #'s of destroyers available to the allies during the Happy Times. These elite crews and heavy patrols simply bear no resemblence to reality. In fact there were barely any large escorts available, and the heavy single merchant traffic to most major U.S. ports was nearly defenceless.