Allied and neutral ports...

[Ian_L]

OK, I am at the end of my first patrol since starting back on the game with 1.4, last week. I tried searching the forums, but cannot seem to find a satisfactory answer on these. It might be in the manual, but I fear that I might not have it because I am one of those that got "screwed" with the whole bilingual manual and nothing else inside the box controversy...

1- Allied and neutral ports. I understand the whole anchor symbol, with the tilted anchor being the home port. But what about the others? They are all the same color, how do I know which ones are enemy, and which ones I can refit at?

2- After completing my mission, I got ordered a new objective. However, I ran accross a convoy and ran our of torps before getting to the second mission. My home port is Manilla, and it's the closest, so i can go there. However, should I just refit or risk losing renown because I didn't get to that second mission?

3- Postpone: what does that option do when docking??

Thanks!

Ian

[Q3ark]

Ok let me see if I can answer a few of these.

1. Yes the tilted anchor is your home port, all the other anchors are friendly ports that you can refit at. If a port dosen't have an anchor symbol over it you can't use it.

2. That one is entirely up to you, you're the skipper:arrgh!: . You could refit and head back out, thay did that some times during the war, called em double barrled patrols. Or if you've had a good patrol, baged lots of tonnage, you could call it a day and end it there without too much worry about losing renown.

3. That one is basicaly a cancel buton, say you don't want to dock or refit just hit that and you can be on your merry way.

Hope i've been of some help, good hunting :ping:

[Ian_L]

Oh ok, thanks alot. It answers all my questions!:up:

I just thought that there was neutral ports that you could use to refuel only.

Happy hunting!

Ian

[piersyf]

yeah, the manual says that you can refuel at neutral ports, but you can't. Even Darwin (an allied port by any sensible definition) is useless in the stock game. I don't mind not having access to neutral ports, but I do mind not being able to refuel in australian ports.

P