Mission Objectives.
 

My patrol told me to patrol the sea of celebes, while I think i did... for about 2 weeks, sunk one merchant and one battleship, The objectives are still not complete.

What are the requirements? Do I have to do a SH3 and just do laps of one little block of the ocean for 24 hours?, because I thought I could roam around the whole area of the celebes sea, but perhaps I'm wrong.

Any ideas ?

Also, I spent so long out on that mission when I gave up and returned to manilla I was no longer able to dock, I can't remember being told to go somewhere else either, I ended up slogging it down to Indonesia , made it with about 10% fuel left too.

Anyone? :doh:

As for docking, you were parked over/near the blue anchor on the nav map yes?

had the same problem, either with the objective type 'Engage all merchant shipping in...' or 'patrol x sea' - the mission objective won't complete - so I just ignored it and went home. However, I found that in one mission, upon reloading, after having patrolled the area designated for quite some time prior to saving - the mission objective was suddenly completed.

So perhaps try patrolling the area for some time, save and load the save - maybe that'll do the trick?

And yes, you can't dock at Manila in that mission (I suppose it was the second mission with the Asiatic fleet? I had to patrol Celebes Sea in that one, too), you have to make your way to Soerabaya, as Manila has been captured by the Japanese.

I have the same problem. I am patroling the same square as ordered, detecting next to no traffic and constantly having to dive because of aircraft. It's very annoying. How big of an area can I patrol? The grid box or within a certain range of the mission objective?

I am getting very frustrated with the amount of aircraft spotted warnings... and thanks to having no gun ammo left I am without protection and have to cash dive everytime.

Any advice?

Yes correct...but very grrrr...this is not the way of doing games

I just ignore those objectives for now... loose some renown, but I make that up by sinking alot of capital ships. As I suggested, try reloading a save after having patrolled the area for a while - it worked for me once in the 'Engage merchant shipping' type mission. No idea why, though.

And I have no clue how large an area you are supposed to patrol, I don't think it's grid sensitive, though?

Just to answer my own question, it appears in the mission file;

Radius=100.000000

Now I dont know if that value is in KM or in Nm.

100Km is 54Nm
100Nm is 185Km

I would prefer for the radius from the center point to be in Nm as it gives me more room to roam in. Anyone got any idea what the unit is?

Oh and time, is in minutes?

Time=2880.000000

That would mean I need to be on station withing the 100Whatevers for 48 hours, presuming the 2880 is in minutes?!?!

Anyone confirm this?

This is weird, on my first patrol to the Philipene sea I didn't even get that close to the star and it triped, and when I was assigned to celebes It didn't trip at all.

Yes, it seems it is at least 100km and time seems to be really in minutes so it seems to be 48 hours.
I was patrolling few kilometers from gold star with binos and it was completed after about 1 day and 16-20 hours.
I didnt counted down from time i crossed patrol perimeter (that should be at least 100 km), i started counting down as soon as i hit gold star... So it should be about 2 days.

American Sub Commanders were quite independent. if no enemy sighted for a few days, they would move to find some. sometimes very far from the patrol area if they had the fuel for it. some skippers would run for days to check out a hunch of theirs.

also, patrol areas are huge, no grid system at all.

Completeing patrol requirements?
 

I went out on a order to patrol the Celebes Sea.

The bicnocular star was at the very east side of the sea and it stated for me to patrol Celebes Sea.

I spent over five days steaming back in forth in that mud pit, did not see one floating piece of wood, and spent over half my diesel fuel.

ARRRRRRRRRRRRRRRRRRRRRRGHHHHHH! :damn:

What exactly is the requirement that needs to be forfilled to complete the patrol?

In SHIII, you had to stay in the area for 24 hours, here it doesnt say.

Do I have to sink a certain amount of tonnage?

Im running at 100% releastic.

Reaching your patrol zone should have shown objective completed in your log. Then I get new orders saying I need to sink some tonnage...secondary objective I think.

I think you only get those messages when your mission objective is marked by a flag. But since I've never completed a binocular mission I don't know if you get this message as well.

Nope, there are 2 type of missions

First is only patrol designed area (stay close to star with binos - 100km or miles, im not sure which counts in perimeter) for 48 hours, change view and get back, star will be greyed out

Second is more confusing, its called DEPLOY AT ...... When u reach patrol area, star will grey out and u get second objective, to SINK SOME TONNAGE. I didnt found out the perimeter of patrol and how much do i need to sink for objective accomplished.