First Official Patrol in OM..not so great, need advice.

[Bubblehead1980]

September 1, 1940...2nd Flotilla Lorient.

Was assigned to a grid off Iceland.Found nothing there after a couple weeks so ventured out into North Atlantic looking for convoys.A convoy report came in and I raced ahead.I know I was near said convoy at one point because of the lag(game lags some before contact is made) but never made contact, mustve stayed just outside the deck watch's view.Rest of patrol was nothing.I headed back towards Iceland for one more sweep before heading home since fuel was getting low.I spotted a medium modern passenger/freighter and closed.Fired two G7E torpedos.One was a dud(knew germans had trouble with magnetic exploders but didnt know they had contact problems, when do they end?) The second hit and left the ship a burning but still afloat hulk.I surfaced and used the deck gun to put some holes in here.She eventually went down.I headed home to Lorient and made Port On 31 October 1940, 59 days after leaving port.


So need some advice....when are there a lot of convoys in North Atlantic? Anyone know some good grids? I studied some of the intel that came with OM, I was in the shipping lanes but just one convoy.

Also, with torpedos limited, would like to follow a one torpedo, one ship policy as I once read about on of the great U Boat Aces did(believe it was Otto Kretschmer) is this possible in game? Noticed German torpedos pack a nice punch.