I decide to take the route north of England, south of the Shetland islands, avoiding Scapa Flow as much as I can. There are destroyer and aircraft patrols all over England, especially near naval bases. I’m assigned to patrol a grid west of England, sailing out of Wilhelmshaven. ![]() Allied anti-submarine tactics are still very lacking, but you’re not invulnerable. It’s mid-1940, very much the time of the U-boat. I’ll give you an example of a part of a hypothetical patrol. What I consider interesting would probably be tedious and boring to a lot of people. I would imagine they wouldn’t have wide appeal, so unless it sounds interesting to you, it probably wouldn’t be. I had heard of a sub game that used voice recognition, so you could shout, “Thirty degrees to port!” and it would respond. Then sneak, sneak sneak in, fire a torpedo…rinse repeat? I mean what do you do? wander around, looking for a ship to sink. Are they worth it? For some reason they seem interesting, but really really boring.
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