You are welcome! I'm glad you finally found your way home :up:

2 Lukemb
 

Thank You :-) I did nt ask but your advise above solved my problem too
Thanks
VK

My second patrol out of Manilla. I did the troop insertion, then was told to patrol a grid - objective accomplished. Then sailed back to Manilla but I couldn't end the mission. I fired my last two torps and did a patrol report. I'm still waiting for end of mission. As I said both mission objectives were checked. 5 merchants 1 warship for 27,000 tons. I don't think my base was overrun. Not sure what's up.

"...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..."

Also, if you are in this situation and out of torps, you can hunt for a convoy within your assigned patrol area and make a contact report. HQ will tell you other assets will attack the target and you are to return home at your discression.

I have also found that unlike SH3, a patrol area timeout isn't a fixed 24 hours or even 48 hours (as some here have experienced.) It can be longer. I also suspect the patrol area is a circle with a roughly 55-60 nm radius. I've considered saving more torps for the assigned patrol areas now and less shooting at T.O.O. along the way. HQ seems to send me to juicy spots.
-Pv-

I had the same problem as a few others... could not get the "end patrol" message when entering port. Checked the files Lukemb suggested and sure enough, they changed my port from Brisbane to Fremantle. I saw no messages stating my port had changed.

I'd been endlessly sailing the seas, refitting and sinking tonnage several times hoping I would get to eventually end the patrol.
After sailing to Fremantle about 10mins ago, I was able to end patrol but they said my performance was not up to par even though I came in with 60,000 + tons of sunk shipping even got a medal... The bastages mothballed me. :stare:

Time to start a new career !:D
Thanks for the tip Lukemb.

I think the HQ replies are kinda screwy.

I was not getting any replies at all from ComsubPac with my first install. I had to guess. I recently reinstalled but have as yet to see if it fixed things.

Anyway... radio reports haven't drawn any replies for me.

I've read through much of this thread and still am not sure. Why doesn't somebody (like the game devs) post the answer to these questions!? Guess we all just have to read 3 pages of posts and then to test to see if it works? :down:

can't finish mission
 

first patrol, i complete the hoshu star plus the inflict damage to a task forse, all completed but i can not dock and finish the mission! any ideas? i even re instaled the game but nothing!!!!

If your home base does not have a blue star on the nav map anymore, that means it's been captured and you have a new home base. If you started in Cavite, Phillipines then your next is Surabaya, Java and after that it's Fremantle, Australia. That's for the Asiatic Fleet.