Mission says my new base is Lorient (when starting from Wilhelmshaven).

[finchOU]

Date is pre 6/20/40. I set out on patrol from Wilhelmshaven north around Great Briton and take some heavy A/C damage (hadn't reconfigured my crash dive time yet which delayed me on the surface). Around this time the Axis take France and the Biscay, but my home port has not "switched" to Lorient like the mission dictated. Well....not knowing that "refit" did not mean "repair" I sailed to Brest (as the closes base) to try and repair my boat and continue my patrol while anticipating the base change to Lorient.

My obvious problem now is i need repairs but i'm on the wrong side of Ocean from Wilhelmshaven (my current base on the map) and it's about 6/26/40. Will my base auto shift at XXX date or is there a bug that is preventing this (shouldn't it have happened with the capture of French ports?)?

Would not want to sail around Briton again only for the base to finally shift to France (and not i'm not going through the channel).