how to complete a patrol

[Joe S]

I was ordered to patrol off Honshu. I sank a few ships on the way, then patroled around the destination icon till I ran out of torpedoes, then went home.Never did get credit for completing the assignment. What is the trick?

I also am looking for data on the test depth for each class of sub. Is it published anywhere? Thanks! Joe S

[ktrboston]

I believe for a patrol you have do it for 48hrs also it has to be within 55nm. I read this on a post awhile back and works for me. I usually draw a circle with my compass and patrol that area. The star should go gray after that time line. Hope this helps. As far as a deploy order you have to sink a certain tonnage. I just finished a order to Carolina islands sank Medium OSF and Large Modern Tanker total tonnage 15492 and this took care of that. I think it has to be over 10000 tonnage to move on.

[Gunner]

Above post would be correct for Stock/patched game, If you play TM1.6 it is 200-240nm for 48 hrs. and merchant tonnage 2000 tons :arrgh!:

[Coletrains]

KTRboston was right: for Honshu the radius in km is 100 which delivers
about 54nm. I recommend a circle with 50nm which you should not leave. The time for Honshu is 2880 minutes which is 48 hours or 2 days.
If you leave the zone the timer will start new (i think).

Only Sulu has smaler radius with 75km. All other patrols have 100km or larger.

You can check this by our own:
..sh4\Data\Campaigns\Campaign\PatrolObjectives\fil ename=Patrol_AreaX.mis

[SteamWake]

How to complete a mission.. by Beery http://www.subsim.com/radioroom/showthread.php?t=111509

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