It's been a long time since I went Asiatic, but as I recall it was a photo mission out of Pearl to Osaka Bay - after taking the pics and sinking the ships at Osaka I had a few fish left, headed up to Kobe. And found the jackpot.

http://www.subsim.com/radioroom/showthread.php?t=201622

Been going there ever since even if it's not my patrol area - finish the mission, got two small old freighters and some junks and fishing boats and keep running into nothing but junks and fishing boats, ho-hum. Let's go to Kobe and get some serious tonnage. Shallow water, coastal batteries, antisubmarine patrols all over the place, real challenge to sneak in and out but racking up tonnage is fish in a barrel. :rock:

Is the Asiatic the asiatic mod or a particular mission in the stock game?

Not a mission persay, just something we do to screw with the IJN :P...I prefer doing it when his majesty is touring the harbor and eyeing his pretty ships :har:

...jk

P.S. "Asiatic" means Asiatic fleet, you start at Manila, then end up in Java and finally in Freemantle (due to the first two being captured by Japan)

"Gone Asiatic" is Navy slang for an Asiatic fleet sailor who has "gone native", become so accustomed to Asian culture and the way things are done in the Asiatic fleet that he would no longer fit into other fleets or American society.
Recommended movie "Sand Pebbles" with Steve McQueen and Candace Bergen.
The Gone Asiatic mod is for Asiatic careers, not an actual mission but starts with the player having to fight his way out of Manila against a Japanese invasion then carry out whatever mission was assigned. The mod includes two "secret" resupply bases at Luzon and east of the Celebes Sea so you can restock and refuel after fighting your way out to sea.

The actual Osaka photo recon mission is one of the Pearl Harbor career missions, best I remember - my point was it's been many years since I quit doing Pearl Harbor careers and "went Asiatic", all my career starts now are Asiatic Fleet Porpoise or Sargo so it's hard to remember for sure which mission from Pearl assigns Osaka. Whatever mission I have, with the Spectre 42 resupply base in the islands in Luzon Straits I can go to Osaka and Kobe after completing the main mission if I want.

So you basically just float around out there in your own "commandeered" sub doing whatever you please with no regard for your superiors or what new orders they may have for you.
:nope::nope: Shame, shame. Were do I sign up....:D

All you have to do is "Go Asiatic", primary reason some sailors preferred Asiatic duty was because it was traditionally looser and wilder than the Atlantic or Pacific fleets. :arrgh!: Seriously, a patrol is supposed to last about 3 months, with a Pearl Harbor career half that time is eaten up cruising to and from over those vast stretches of empty Pacific. Asiatic careers you're closer to the action at the beginning, then mid 42 you got a long slog from Australia - unless you download my mod;

http://www.subsim.com/radioroom/showthread.php?t=211844

Which after the fall of Java changes your home port to Phantom 42 in the Celebes instead of Freemantle. Spend a week or two accomplishing your assigned mission, after that contribute to the war effort for another month or two by blowing stuff up before returning to port. :rock:

Asiatic was great until Adm. ****tard (spoken Christie) refused to acknowledge the problems with the Mk 14 torpedoes that he helped with back in the day when he was assigned to BurOrd. Uncle Charlie saw that problem solved for SubPac boats long before SubSoWesPac.

Happily, for those crews, getting Midway as a sub base does eventually shave about 1,225 miles off that trans-Pacific slog.

The downside---no women in port. :O:

Damn...why even stop just keep going!!:nope: