New sub means a new base?
 

Im playing RFB with RSRDC, I was stationed out of Manilla, then out of Surabaya and then Freemantle, when I returned from my last patrol to freemantle I was offered a new sub, Gato Class, but I guess I had to pick it up at Pearl because When I left for my next patrol I was based at Pearl. I dont mind having my base switched back to pearl however, my mission is sending me to the Celebes Sea (Im assuming its thinking I was still based out of Freemantle) Coming from pearl is going to give me only a few days of fuel on station in that area. I tried to get a transfer but no go... Needless to say I wont be patrolling that area, I headed for Japan.

How many patrols do you have to do to qualify for a transfer, also, if you turn down the new sub are you given an option again to take it or is it a one time deal?

That happens to me all the time. I'm not sure how manyn patrols you need to be able to transfer though.

It is quite annoying:arrgh!:

Well sir...the action is around Japan and southward from Japan. Not much you can do east of Wake. Sucks having to traverse all that ocean but TC helps there. Soon you will be heading to the Truk and those islands that are not as far. Just watch you fuel. :up: Anyway, you have to make the assigned patrol areas. If not, you get retired before long.

Whoa just a minute, are you saying if I dont make that patrol assignment I'll be keelhauled?

Seriously, patrolling south of the Phillipines from Pearl is crazy. Its 5000 mile trip each way, that leaves me very little fuel to patrol with, do end arounds and have a litte extra for safety's sake. Tpping up on fuel at midway is out of the way and would cost me moe fuel, the only other option is to go straight to darwin (another 2000 miles) and then head to my assigned patrol area after. Either way I would be spending 40 to 50 days just transitting, and maybe 10 days patrolling.

That assigned patrol area has to be because the game thought I was still at Freemantle, not Pearl Harbour. I have never been sent this far south from Pearl Harbour and I cant think of any boat that did this without being re-based out of Australia afterwards, which I cant do.

To hell with my orders I say...:arrgh!:

Your mission is assigned when you ENTER your base, so if you get a new boat/new base, your mission is already assigned. When you are allowed to transfer from Pearl to Fremantle, guess what? Yup, your mission will be the one given to you from Pearl. After that first mission you will get missions assigned from the new base.

Peabody

You have to stop at Midway even if you are going straight to Japan. You have plenty of fuel after stopping at Midway. Also, there are sub tenders that will crop up south of Celebes. But yeah, if you skip assigned areas you will not get another assignment and possibly get canned when you arrive back to port. It is unfortunate we can not work fuel as well as they did in real life but it is obtainable it you stop at Midway and watch your fuel. I'm in the same boat as you and on my way to Celebes out of Pearl. Now worries for me. I spotted a tender on the northern most shores of Austrailia:yeah: I transit at standard and when I do hit the patrol area, I patrol at slow speed. It does help save fuel.

I think the getting moved to a new base when you take a new sub is kind of random. At times they have moved me other times I took the new sub and I was still at the same base.

Most of the time the game follows history. If you are in Fremantle and offered a Gato before December 1, 1943 you are transferred to Pearl. Gatos first became available in Pearl before production ramped up. After that date you will stay in Fremantle and get a Gato. The Balao was available in Fremantle on August 1, 1943.

You can refuse a new boat and will be offered another later. I generally refuse the first time it is offered unless it is after Dec 1943 to get a Gato and avoid Pearl early in the war.

Note: those dates refer to the stock game. If you are running MODs they could be different. Check the Flotillas.upc if you want to know.

I also started at Manila (running 1.5 vanilla w/RSRDC). I started in an S-boat, then got a Porpoise class when I was at Perth. In the middle of a patrol I got flash traffic telling all Porpoise boats to go to Midway, so I went there and got my Gato. I've been based at Midway ever since.

If you're going to Japan you have to watch your fuel. But if you're going to the East Indies you can always top off your tanks at Darwin anytime in the patrol.

Now here is a skipper who plans his work and works his plan:up:

A man with a porpoise.....err purpose.