Harbor attacks and comatose officers

[Sailor Steve]

Welcome aboard, Tasuric!

Originally Posted by Tasuric

Now my question is, why do people say harbor attacks are risky? I realize it’s early in the war and my realism is set at stock, but how can a destroyer ever get to me if I’m parked stern first into a dock perfectly suited for a submerged uboat? They can’t sail over me to drop DC’s, or shoot me cause I’m submerged, couldn’t one outwait destroyers till they lose interest or crash into the dock walls?

In SH3 it's easy, with harbor traffic mods or GWX or NYGM not so much.

Others have explained that, I'll speak to real life. The famous Scapa Flow raid by Gunther Prien wasn't just a "harbor raid". Careful planning and days of study of aerial photographs were done by Admiral Doenitz before he even considered asking captain Prien to undertake the mission. Even then it was fairly dangerous, and right after that the British took great care to make it pretty much impossible to get in or out of their main bases. In shallow water a u-boat can't get under the cone of a destroyer's asdic, so detection is almost guaranteed. The water is so shallow that there's no place to hide.

Basically, as difficult as it is with GWX, it's still much easier than it was in real life. After Prien's Scapa Flow adventure there was not one single harbor raid by a u-boat.