Something useful in your patrol grids?
 

I´m wondering if someone sometimes make useful things (sink ships or report contacts) in the assigned patrol grids. I always reach it with few torpedos, specially if the grid is in the middle of the atlantic, and i´ve never had a contac when patrolling it. All my tonnage sunk has been in the way to the grid or in the return trip.

Usually no, unless they send me into reach areas like AM53. But often I get assigned into some god forsaken place in the middle of nowhere, so I just do my duty there and set course for my usual hunting grounds.

Playing GWX, I often don't even bother going to the patrol area (because you do not get any renown). After I spend my last torpedo, I sent a status report, and when BdU orders me to return to base, I happily comply with clear conscience. :D

I consider modding the game so that I receive a negative renown if I don't complete my orders, but without some testing (for which I don't have spare time) I'm not sure how would it affect game balance.

a lot of my tonnage has been on the way to the grid or on the way back.

Since the release of GWX2.1 i have not patrolled a single assigned grid. I usually just hit my favored hunting grounds.

SH3 is faced with such a huige limitation in the way it simulates the career and patrol assignments because of this whole "go to a grid for 24 hours" nonsense.

boats were micromanaged by BDU... your mission orders could change a half dozen times before you really got anywhere.

i would say in real life most boats were vectored around by BDU from report to report to suspected area of activity etc.

not to mention the wolfpacks!

but yes... im with you, most of my tonnage is racked up while en route.

I just finished my 19th patrol and I hadn't sunk (or seen!) anything in my assigned grids..........until my IXC was ordered to EN98, just north of the Trinidad Passage. Holy jeebus it's the most active zone I've been in, zerstorers & tankers everywhere!

generally speaking... if you use GWX2.1 patrolling your assigned grid is pointless as you dont get any renown for it.

Sometimes I get a ship or two in the patrol areas. I like to visit my favorite hunting grounds when going to the grid and when coming back.

I couldnt agree more! :o I have just finished my first raid (2nd career patrol 1 IXC,1st career I did 20 patrols for nearly 0.5 million tonnes) on the P.O.S. and around the passage you speak of,and have sunk 7 tankers in that raid,3 of which were T2s and a T3! An excellent spot! :rock:
In that particular patrol we spent 1.5 VERDAMMT months at sea,our longest to date.

Most of the time, I haven't seen or heard a thing while on my assigned grid. But several times it has been a busy 24 hours. :D

It's usually a bust, but several times I've had contacts in neighboring grids and gone after them. Luckily leaving the grid does not force you to start counting from scratch so I can just go back and finish my time when I'm done. Once caught a Dido cruiser and 4 destroyers moving together in the bottom corner of my patrol grid. Sank the cruiser, and one of the destroyers when it came after me. the other three just ran round like headless chickens, I just sat at periscope depth watching bewildered as they all went round in circles at 25 knots nearly colliding several times. I have no idea why, they never DC'd me once.

A German death ray would be bloody handy if you know what grid its stored in. :D

I can't remember the last time if ever I cruised out of Biscay through Bravo Echo without running into something.