I think you misunderstood - BDU replies to sent contact reports are still empty. No acknowledgment. I don't need any others. Overwrite it? Are you sure? Dismiss the extra crewmen! The U-boat was destroyed. You must have high crew efficiency here for the timely detection of targets and threats.
The hydrophones are the U-boat's ears when it is underwater, detecting targets far beyond visual range and keeping tabs on the close range tactical situation. High crew efficiency here allows the crew to carry out your orders rapidly. They can only be used on the surface unless the U-boat is equipped with a schnorchel. Crew efficiency here affects the time needed to reload torpedoes. Any crewmembers not on watch or at action stations should be assigned here or in the other crew quarters area.
Your best option is to dive, but your guns may save you if you cannot dive. There will be war, and the Kriegsmarine, not fully prepared, must still challenge the Royal Navy. The main target - British commerce shipping. The tonnage war is starting. Through them, we will be able to reach out farther on to the shipping lanes of the British Empire. Using the bases of our Italian allies, we must disrupt the flow of supplies to the British forces in North Africa while protecting the flank of the Afrika Korps.
In the mid-Atlantic, however, the battle is still undecided. The Allies are committing more and more warships and aircraft to protect the vital shipping routes, and they are more efficient than ever before. U-boat successes are falling away while losses mount. Simply returning from patrol alive is cause for celebration.
Our only chance lies in new technology. The new electro-boat is the last hope of the Kriegsmarine. The flotilla's operational base was Kiel, Germany at the start of the war and shifted to Brest, France in June The flotilla disbanded in September The flotilla operated from Kiel and Wilhelmshaven, Germany at the beginning of the war, but moved to Lorient, France starting in June It disbanded in August when its last U-boats left Lorient for Norway.
