Which Silent Hunter to play?

[Von_Fleming]

Thanks! The pandemic has, if something positive must be wrought, allowed me more time to return to old 'sub commands.' Granted, it has been a while and the skills are rusty: my first foray in SH3 + GWX was disastrous... sunk by an ASW trawler that lay a string of depth charges across me on the second day of war with Great Britain. I'd been trailing a wounded small merchant that I'd torpedoed when the trawler appeared, its shelling forcing me under. I took it for granted that the trawler would have sonar and, as such, wasn't making any effort to run quietly in continuing to trail the small merchant (hoping for confirmation of sinking). The trawler picked up my acoustic signature fine...guess I should paid more attention to the 'ASW' part and less to the 'trawler' part - embarrassing to be sunk by a fishing boat on only the second day of the war with Britain. They day prior I'd made my patrol area and was fortunate to sink another armed trawler and two coastal merchants without torpedo malfunction. With the possibility of adding a small merchant to the tally, I'd been looking at a pretty good sortie for a Type II boat...then died. In Cold Waters I had a similar experience...sailing a Skipjack, I was high on having just sunk a Victor (compared to a Skipjack...a formidable boat) when two torpedoes appeared out of nowhere from the deep and forced me to emergency blow in order to evade. I broke the surface, and promptly started being pummeled by a Krivak and a Udaloy that I'd taken in for granted could also be present when engaging a "submarine" contact. One of the torpedoes struck me anyhow and...down I went, two more torpedoes impacting my boat before my bow plowed into the bottom...never to rise again. Fortunate that my entire crew was lost as the Soviets would likely put that performance down to mechanical malfunction...the U.S. Navy safe from embarrassment as the Soviets would never know the vessel truly 'was' commanded with such incompetence!