1939 and fresh out of U-Boot school. Gameplay Q.

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Originally Posted by Tupolev

Unescorted always get identified by me. Which, of course means I go in close. If I can't ID it, I don't shoot it.

As far as convoys, they're escorted ships and therefore denied any protection of neutrality. Same thing for merchants with deck guns. If I can see a gun, I consider it hostile.

T

You are too polite. Once I caught a yatch with English flags off the coast of France. A yatch there could only mean S.O.E so down that one went.

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Another thing and totally unrelated: I think I discovered the Flying Dutchman today. Was down at 40 m while hiding from a storm off the southeast coast of England when I got sound contact. Merchant, slow, closing.

Now the headache begun coz no matter how I maneuvered, I couldn't get him on another bearing. I surfaced, cursing, then headed off towards him. Turned out he was a flaming wreck but boy was that captain one mean unholy spirit.

His flaming ship was raging across the stormy waves at speeds close to UFO speed. I turned to intercept, he went ballistic and shot across the ocean in his burning boat to stay well and truly on my port side. UFO speed is no joke, that guy was barely visible in the distance and still he managed to travel what must have been at least 10 nm in barely a second.

Methinks Dönitz wouldn't believe me if I told him.
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