Amount of days at sea

[Tessa]

Originally Posted by Kapt Z

Yes, 8 knots seems the most efficient. This patrol I am using 9 knots and it drops the range about 6000 km so we'll see.


I know just what you mean, I've been to grids where it seems you run into a ship or two almost every day.

As frustrating as low tonnage patrols can be gameplay wise I actually don't mind them too much when they happen. Good reminders that many boats never sunk anything.

Recently started re-reading Clay Blair's U-Boat War set of books, looking through the appendices as you point out there were a lot of patrols even early in the war that came back without having expending a single torpedo or round of ammunition. Then just gets more depressing as the war goes on that instead of the boats returning with an empty patrol they just don't return at all.

One huge game enhancement for us is that we get to enjoy and immerse ourselves in all the history yet not have to take the risks with our lives like the sailor originally did. As glorious as it was the times where Prien, Topp, Kretchsmer and the other top captains came sailing back home they were treated like conquering hero's (albeit many times deserved) they all ended up dead or if lucky captured and sat out the war as POW's. We have hindsight as our "Monday morning quarterback" to help us guide our patrols and know when something baad is just over the horizon and enough time to get the hell outta there.

Driving around in a VII at 8 or 9 knots while realistic, can feel so slow that you're not even moving at times. Long as I know a milk cow is going to remain in place, personally would plan a run to someplace like Halifax and Nex York at a faster pace (prolly round 12ish), will definitely be out of munitions going to either or both those locations. Being able to go to the North Atlantic Milk Cow cuts the travel tiem down signicantly and doesn't require the use of a type IX creates a lot of new opportunities to travel to far and exotic places and sink their ships