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Cybermat47
03-06-13, 02:13 AM
Right now, I'm heading home to Wilhelmshaven after my third war patrol, with no pennants being readied. Thank God I'm running an alpha of my War Patrols mod, or I would have given up completely! :woot:
Sailor Steve
03-06-13, 08:46 AM
A great many u-boats never saw an enemy ship for their entire careers. I consider an empty patrol to be part of the realism. A frustrating part, to be sure...
GT182
03-06-13, 09:54 AM
I agree with Steve. That's a pretty big ocean out there.

Now if they'd had the internet back then, things would have been completely different. ;) :haha:
gap
03-06-13, 01:41 PM
A great many u-boats never saw an enemy ship for their entire careers.

Definitely true :up:

I consider an empty patrol to be part of the realism. A frustrating part, to be sure...

:agree:

I agree with this one too, but being a coward I regard uneventful patrols as lucky ones. My rule is: better a bored captain than a dead hero :D
ninja turtle
03-06-13, 03:22 PM
My rule is: better a bored captain than a dead hero :D

Totally agree :up:
Cybermat47
03-06-13, 03:38 PM
A great many u-boats never saw an enemy ship for their entire careers. I consider an empty patrol to be part of the realism. A frustrating part, to be sure...

That's exactly what I thought! In fact, I was exuberant that I'd finally gotten the right realism settings (81%) and mods to make SH5 a simulator on my laptop. Although I actually encountered three ships and a convoy, but my torpedoes missed all times.
Sailor Steve
03-06-13, 03:55 PM
I agree with this one too, but being a coward I regard uneventful patrols as lucky ones. My rule is: better a bored captain than a dead hero :D
Same here. I sometimes come home outwardly cursing my luck but inwardly praising it.
raymond6751
03-08-13, 06:13 AM
The Pacific is even worse. I played SH4 from release to the day I bought SH5 and never did see an enemy ship out there.

Look at it this way...you might survive the war.
icthird623
03-08-13, 08:23 AM
What factors do you consider when determining it is time to end a patrol? How long is your average patrol?

Ic
tat501
03-13-13, 09:24 AM
Be more aggressive!
GT182
03-13-13, 10:36 AM
What factors do you consider when determining it is time to end a patrol? How long is your average patrol?

Ic

With SH3 it was fuel if I hadn't seen an enemy ship. Sometimes I'd refit just to get fuel/supplies and continue on, if I was in the southern Atlantic. In the nothern Atlantic I'd just return to my home port and hopefully get another grid area to patrol for better results.

I'd stay out a minimum of 14 days, or as long as 30 of game time. And I try to do the same with SH5.