Use all torps,find convoy,send status/contact report
 

ComSubPact, will send you a message. (Good Find) Star will gray out,worked for US !:rock:

Yup. All the solutions given here so far work.
-Pv-

Ooops
 

Seems like I was just being a totally impatient skipper..............:)

But cruising arround for 48 hours worked AND netted me two cruisers, two deystroyers and a big fat merchie.....:)


Thanks all!!

You need more patience in some of the missions in 4 compared to 3. Which I thought was an improvement.

How to finish a patrol / complete a mission ?
 

Made 8 patrols, sometimes achieved the objectives, sometimes not. Made at least one sinking by torpedo on each patrol, all patrols ended okay.

9th Patrol, patrol Solomons, early '43, out of Brisbane. Sank 6 small craft with guns, achieved objective with no torpedoes expended. Attacked by aircraft and prop shafts damaged. DC crew cannot repair. Head for Tulagi and the depot ship. Prop shafts repaired, fuel replenished but not ammo. Radio patrol report and reassigned to patrol Solomons again. 20 minutes later prop shafts are damaged again (kind of like the damage to the conning tower that reoccurs after 20 minutes). Abort patrol and make for Brisbane. Arrive Brisbane but unable to end patrol, refit option only. Take refit, get fuel, shafts repaired, no ammo. Set off back to patrol area. 20 minutes later prop shafts damaged. Complete the second patrol, only contact a US task force and several enemy aircraft. Return to Brisbane and still unable to complete patrol.

Suggestions please

Fire off all of your torpedoes. Then make a radio report. They should tell you to end the mission then.

Try to go back to Fremantle.

Did you change flotilla or received a new command?

Anyway, to be sure you can check in this file if your base was changed

go to:

CareerTrack.upc in the savedgames folder (in C:\Documents and Settings\...\My Documents\SH4\data\cfg)

You can open it with Notepad

Ah! As long as they don't make me pay for the torpedoes, could be the answer.

Thanks

One good way is to find a deep shot and hit the D key and go 1024xTC.

Thank you very much Lukemb, I had the same problem as the OP and thanks to your help I found out that I was assigned to Fremantle.:up: I hope I can finally end my patrol.:D

Endless Patrol
 

I'm currently in my 9th patrol of my first career in SHIV. Patrols 1-3 were in the USS Seadragon, patrols 4-8 were in the USS Drum. For my 9th patrol I was given command of the USS Balao and tranferred to Brisbane. Ok, started my patrol and headed for the Northern Marianas were I was ordered to engage enemy shipping. After completing the assigned tasks I sent a status report to ComSubPac. They radioed back, telling me to patrol an area west of Truk in the Caroline Islands. Arrived on station and proceeded to attack enemy shipping in the process expending all my torpedoes. I sent a status report to ComSubpac saying I had expended all torpedoes and returned to Brisbane. I was not offered the option to end my patrol, only Refit or Postpone. I've ran and completed my ninth patrol three different times, with the same results. Any help or suggestions on what to do to complete this patrol so I can move on would be greatly appreciated.





cdrsubron7 :x

I had the same problem and the solution probably is: You were reassigned to Fremantle. Go to Fremantle and you shoud be able to end your patrol.

a noobish question
 

i have been told to patrol just outside Tokyo i have reached the star and havent seen a ship for ages. my question is that on the oders screen it still says my mission is incomplete, so do i actually have to sink something before it says completed?

Thanks, Hyperion. I will give that a try later tonight. :up:




cdrsubron7 ;)

Basically patrol within 100nm of the star for 48 hours. Report in after 48 hours and you should be directed to do something else. Always helps to sink ships...that is what you are there for...I have had some fruitless 48 hours but still got orders to go elsewhere.