How long do your patrols last?
 

How long do your patrols last in real time? I came in from my uni placement job tonight and started at about 6:40pm, and didn't finish it until 9:35pm....thats quite long for just ONE patrol!!! lol

Wasn't a bad first patrol for my new career either, 2 ships, totalling to jst over 13,000 tonnes.....my crew got medals....but I...the Kaleun got nothing!!!! :nope: lol

Kind of depends on where I'm going and if I intercept a convoy. In a recent patrol I attacked a convoy twice by evasion then shadowing untill prime-time. That depleted my torps in a hurry. So I guess a couple hours, some patrols have lasted for days with only a few hrs at a time. You can save some time with the quick exit to home-base. Unless your hitting a resupply ship or cow.

It can take a couple of RL-weeks for me, to finish a patrol!
And that's playing 2-3 evenings/week, for maybe 3hrs each.
In the end (I'm on 4th patrol), playtime is roughly the same as game-time.

I do allot of realtime play, probably because of the year (Nov. '42), which shows allot of hostile activity.
It's with empty tubes, that I do most TC travelling.;)
And I return to base and dock the real way.:D

A lot depends on what kind of boat you're running & what your realism settings are. I'm running a IXC in late 1944 and 67% realism. Since I have a lot of fish, my patrols take about 10-12 actual hours with time compression. I usually don't run above 64 except when I'm running submerged & slow (Daylight) and then I'll kick it up to 512.. Since I use a schnorkle in the evening, I don't run abouve 32 with it exposed.. I played 6 hours on Sunday, 3 hours on Monday and am 50 game hours away from Lorient and out of eels & deck rounds (68K tons sunk from 2 convoys I ran into).. Hopefully I'll get in a few hours tonight & get back to base safely..

Good Hunting..

2-4 weeks I'd say, but as I'm on my first patrol in a Type VII, it might turn out to be longer than that! My patrols in the Type II were between a two days and two weeks depending on free time and how many events happened in the patrol.

I run at 64 or 128 TC mostly, and tend to play in real-time for a few hours when I'm chasing or attacking a ship or convoy.

One patrol took over a year, because I had a rather long break in the middle! :D

It can take me a couple of weeks to do a patrol,it's really a matter of how long the "in game boredom" takes to bore me in real life.

As an example: had a friend around tonight and as he'd seen a couple of youtoobe vids,I fired the game up to show him the real thing.

Could I find anything? Could I heck:damn: Two hours later I found , and nailed a tramp steamer-just after he left in fact:damn:

After that I travelled the appropriate distance away and saved, came in here and drowned my sorrows:up:

I try to do a patrol over 2-3 evenings at maybe 3 hours each. If I dont have any luck in the first few hours I might get bored and TC home. I just dont have the attention span to do anything like a 1x tc patrol. I already have a profession and its not a U-Boat commander:D

Not very Long if you are in a IIA Boat Used my 6 torps last night hit a British Merchant twice in dark off south Norway Coast. She Just keep on west toward the channel time I got torps loaded lost her in the dark.
Back to Kiel for patrol 5 :D
I need a VIIB with deck gun.
Lane :D

It really depends on the conditions of each patrol. On the IX boat when I'm on patrol for about 50-60 days (game time) I usually play for about 4-6 hours real time (obviously not in one go)

It's depend
 

Sometimes my partol tooks 3 months and sometime(atlantic ocean) it will takes 6 months.
My crew was happy to see a harbor again(dont blame them) lmao.....

In my fav boat the IXD2 my patrol time can be upwards of 100 days (game) but in RL usually somewhere in the region of 1-2 weeks to complete with 2-3 hrs play each evening, expect for weekends where it's running contstantly.:up:

Usually 2-3 hours real time per patrol. I'm a high TC freak...and impatient... ;)