Longest uneventful patrol time
 

My current patrol is certainly the longest uneeeventful period of time I've run into. Departed Lorient Oct 18. It's now Nov 29. During all that time, I've seen/heard just two ships. First one, 5 or 6 days into patrol, a small merchie. Then zilch until Nov 29. Got all excited at a reported sighting, only to find out it was a hospital ship. Gives you an inkling of an idea of how tiresomely dull it was a lot lf the time. The beat goes on ... a convoy's smoke must be just over the horizon.

Don't give up hope, Iv'e had many patrols where I only find the goodies at the last moment.

I'm having the same issue right now. I've used up most of my fuel and I havn't fired a single torpedo. :nope:

I did that in a type II once. I don't remember the patrol length, but I came home with all five torpedoes aboard. SH3 Commander's randomized time in port had me turned around in just five days.:sunny:

One patrol, I sailed from the Hebrides to the southwest tip of Ireland and found nothing...

...the my crew almost mutinied on me!:rotfl::rotfl::rotfl:

I've sailed all the way to West Africa w/o seeing a single thing.:damn:

I once went all the way to the Cape of Good Hope. I was playing stock with the IXD2 range & torpedo fix then. If I remember correctly the trip took two months (game time) and I saw a grand total of 4 ships. I was able to sink 2 of them but the other two were way ahead of me & there was no way that I could overtake them or get into a good firing position. That was a really disappointing patrol.:cry:

All the way to the east coast of america and half way back without seeing a blinking thing:nope:I seriously thought my game was broke at one point:o:cry:and then all of a sudden I bumped into a convoy(in bad weather in the dark)and had the patrol of my life from then on:up:hang on in there,its moments like that,that make this game so great!best of luck bert8for3;)

HMMM.
 

:o I once had this boring patrol 111 days without seeing nothing till the end of the patrol one sloop:o :o :rotfl: :rotfl:

The kaleun staggered out of the bar, bucked up not only by the quantity of alcohol he'd consumed, but also by the realization that his fellows had had far worse experiences.

:up:

Been there many times. Just completed my 4th patrol yesterday having only sunk 1 merchant vesse, and then having no contacts for the rest of the patrol:nope: .
I even sneaked into Casablanca, and found nothing of value.

Once had a Type II during testing and never saw or heard a thing in the Black Sea......I obviously returned to base with a full quota of eels.

Wrote an observation report over at The Lair asking others to try and replicate the problem.

About an hour after posting I realised I hadn't enabled the Black Sea campaign files :oops:

Only sailed to America once and it was the most boring thing ever. I think it took a couple weeks or something to get there and when I did they had escorts and planes and crap so I thought " To hell with this! I can get this off of England!".
For the rest of the war my patrol grids were BF15 and AM(whatever it is off the north coast of Ireland 29?)
If Bdu doesn't like it they can come do it themselves.

I've gone for a couple of weeks I think, but the map with the routes on it usually saves me from that poor fate. Although crossing the Atlantic can be pretty boring at times!

Try to use the convoy route as your crossing the Atlantic.