Need Some advice for Potentially my last U-boat career

[Miltiades]

Originally Posted by sublynx

If your lucky, you'll experience it as a sudden shock, just like it was historically, black May of 1943 - over 40 U-boats lost in one month. But it depends a lot on your orders and luck. If you patrol distant areas with lots of single traffic with no air cover and then suddenly in mid 1943 get orders to patrol the Western Approaches near air bases with lots of convoy traffic, it can feel quite sudden. At least that is what I felt at the time.

Same story for the Mediterranean?