Cezbor
01-02-09, 03:04 AM
Introduction first.
Just recently, after having a long career in 2-nd and 23/29 flotillas (total 36 patrols) I thought to myself - It's time to try somethig else .... maybe more exiting. I'm on my 37-th patrol. I changed my home flotilla to 10-th and I'm trying to sail from Lorient to Penang. It's December 1943 (game time). Well, the plan is to do it hard way. On route from Lorient I completed my BDU orders (patrol grid BE 83, by the way 2 kills - 20 000 BRT) and I'm going to sail through Gibraltar, raid port in Gibraltar, than straight to Malta, raid Malta, and than ....... Port Said just to cross Suez Channel, Red Sea and "straight" to Penang (Doenitz won't gonna like it).
The puzzle is ... not Gibraltar, not Malta or Suez Channel (I did raids there a lot of times, 3 times crossed Suez Ch. etc., I know enemy's defences, and my boat fuel & ammo restrictions), puzzle is Penang itself.
After I choosed 10-th flotilla, I was ordered to make combat patrol in AM52 grid. Although patrol was very successful Tommy's were too close to send me to the bottom (over 60% hull integrity lost). After I'd reached home base in .... Lorient on mid October 1943 and repaired my boat, I received in December 1943 (with a little help from SH3 Cmdr.) next patrol grid in BE 83:hmm: . Well it's hard to call it a distant area, isn't it?
Now to the topic.
The question is, will my home base change automatically to Penang after reaching it or should I do sth more to ensure that, like .... loading GWX Indian Ocean files, or maybe sth else (sorry for too long introduction above, but I thought it would be nice to let somebody know about my plans before I'll be MIA).
My current boat is type XXI U-2513 and I'm GWX 2.1 user.
If anyone has experience in far east flotilla, please feel free to enlight me:yep: .
Just recently, after having a long career in 2-nd and 23/29 flotillas (total 36 patrols) I thought to myself - It's time to try somethig else .... maybe more exiting. I'm on my 37-th patrol. I changed my home flotilla to 10-th and I'm trying to sail from Lorient to Penang. It's December 1943 (game time). Well, the plan is to do it hard way. On route from Lorient I completed my BDU orders (patrol grid BE 83, by the way 2 kills - 20 000 BRT) and I'm going to sail through Gibraltar, raid port in Gibraltar, than straight to Malta, raid Malta, and than ....... Port Said just to cross Suez Channel, Red Sea and "straight" to Penang (Doenitz won't gonna like it).
The puzzle is ... not Gibraltar, not Malta or Suez Channel (I did raids there a lot of times, 3 times crossed Suez Ch. etc., I know enemy's defences, and my boat fuel & ammo restrictions), puzzle is Penang itself.
After I choosed 10-th flotilla, I was ordered to make combat patrol in AM52 grid. Although patrol was very successful Tommy's were too close to send me to the bottom (over 60% hull integrity lost). After I'd reached home base in .... Lorient on mid October 1943 and repaired my boat, I received in December 1943 (with a little help from SH3 Cmdr.) next patrol grid in BE 83:hmm: . Well it's hard to call it a distant area, isn't it?
Now to the topic.
The question is, will my home base change automatically to Penang after reaching it or should I do sth more to ensure that, like .... loading GWX Indian Ocean files, or maybe sth else (sorry for too long introduction above, but I thought it would be nice to let somebody know about my plans before I'll be MIA).
My current boat is type XXI U-2513 and I'm GWX 2.1 user.
If anyone has experience in far east flotilla, please feel free to enlight me:yep: .