GWX2 1944 career: That didn't last long!

[Wulfmann]

Well, I made an error in my revamp of the GWX2 RND.mis file so had to make a complete new one. With so little to change in this great add on fortunately for me the one thing I know well is the only thing that could (IMO) be improved upon.
So I started a career in each year to make sure.
Then I decided after all checked out to do a 1944 career because they moved the start to the beginning of the year and that gave enough time to have a decent live span.
I started in Brest and left at night at high speed and as soon as the air raid alert sounded I went to snorkel as I did not want to waste ammo. Most excellent raid.
I was going up and down like a porpoise through the Bay heading for DH62 never seeing a ship and getting down before any aircraft spotted me. Tedious but real.
The fact I had to snorkel so much and make higher speed left me without a safe margin of fuel so after my stint in the ordered zone I headed for U-488 to resupply.
But, good luck had me run into a convoy although it was raining and night.
I snuck in but was detected and it seems they had as much trouble finding me as I did a target.
I could hear them even see their search lights but getting range and bearing to make an attack was all but impossible.
Finally the two search lights from a tanker allowed me to position myself and I disabled him with two fish then finished him with an third. I fired a FAT into the convoy based on sound bearings as a DE made a run at me causing slight damage me being in between the cans all lucky like.
I fired my one homi and would later regret wasting it as I went to 150 meters.
Classic 30 months of intense 100% SH3 playing Kaleunmanship. I was guessing the two yanks' every move and except for one good spread and minor flooding I slipped away.
A fat 11K tanker in Feb 44 was a good prize and I headed for U-488.
I never made it.
I ran into a Hunter killer group that was not very impressed with all that Kaleunmanship and they seem to know what I was doing before I did it
It was one run doing damage after another destroying the forward batteries was the thing that hurt as I needed to stay at med speed to keep from dropping and was always pumping to keep from flooding so one run after another and even blowing ballast did nothing. I was all prepared to surrender and apply for US food stamps but I guess these yanks weren't liberals on immigration so sent me to the dreaded black screen.
Point??? It felt much like reading Iron Coffins in 44 then it became one.

Nice work GWX team it was excellent

Wulfmann

(PS, my RND.mis editing; changing escorts in convoys to higher crew rating (3 mim) or adding more escorts (5/43 on) or changing which ones had nothing to do with the above. I have not changed the HK groups)