What do u like to do on patrol?
 

Hi . Just wondering what people like to do on patrol , dp you engage everything on the way ? ( I do lol ). And if u get to your area and see nothing in the 24 hours do u like hang about hunting and stuff or will u go back to your base? I like to hang around cause i feel bored if i havent blown summit up ......

I do my 24 hrs, if it looks promising maybe wait another day, or I move to a "hot" spot for incoming merchants.
Unless I run out of torps, I stay on patrol for a month.

i'd rather waste all my torpedoes on a trawler than go home empty handed :salute:

I go to my assigned grid and remain there for my entire patrol. That's what they had to do in real life.

I attack anything that I am able to attack.

I will spend the required 24hrs in my square and then explore the adjoining squares until I run out of torpedoes, or fuel, or am damaged enough to require going home.

On my present patrol I am returning to base after about six weeks on patrol with 5 torpedoes left and 2 merchant ships sunk. It should take me a week or so to make St Nazaire so I might still run into something.:arrgh!:

yeh i think your right i should stay out longer

I attack anything flying the wrong flags with exception of war ships unless I think it is a them or me situation; most of the war ships are light tonage and a real pain if they don't go down on the first strike. That is while in rout to the assigned grid. After my required stint there if there are no convoy routs near there I go to known hot spots near by and plot a course that leads me thru there and then on to home.

I generaly stay out until I don't have any ammo left, I take on damage that makes the patrol untenable or imposible, I lose any key personel like on my last patrol when my Chief of the Watch tried catching a deck gun round with his teath, or I only have enuf fule to get me home on a direct rout, though if I still have ammo I will engage targets of opertunity if I don't have to go too far out of my way to intercept.

I do about the same. It kinda depends on the boat ( VII vs IX ) and patrol area and year.

I'm definately not going to sail a IX boat to S.Africa and spend 24hrs and then sail home.

Doenitz would :dead: me. :haha:

sail... ocationaly press the rong button. sail FIND SOMETHING!!! Miss with 1 torp, hit with anouther... shell it. repeat..:rotfl2:

Same here. Thirty days in the patrol zone or until my torpedo racks are empty, whichever happens first.

Orders be orders :salute:

Generally, I plot a racetrack pattern around my assigned grid and three other adjacent grids, then do the same thing in another area, and if I'm in a Type IX, another series of grids. All in all 8-12 grids, and I run several laps around each racetrack. Usually my patrols last a while :smug: Thank goodness for Jimbuna's gramophone tracks!

first I go to my assigned grid on the shortest way possible.
then I patrol there for some days, hopefully convoy-routes lead through. if not, I start visiting the "more interesting" adjacent grids. when there are only two or three eels left or diesel is low, I head to my home-port.
there are always some lone merchants between the Orkneys and Shetlands, there I use up all my left fish.
usually my patrols are around 4-5weeks.

I sail right to my patrol area without plotting a course. I adjust my headings to point me in the general area. Once there, I patrol the grid for 24 hrs and then head off in other directions, working my way back to base.

Im moving to my ordered patrol zone and stay there for 25h. If I can expect some prey in this area, I´ll stay, otherwise I go after my gut feeling.

I stay on patrol till fuel and/or torpedoes are gone or the boat is heavy damaged.

And except the most ppl here I usually do not attack liners. They probably transport more civilians than anything else. Troop transports are something else of course...

:yep: Yep. I play it as close to history as possible. Of course I monkey around in SH3 Commander before my patrols so I get a grid I actually want to go to. But once I've been ordered there, I stay there. Heck, I even radio status reports every 24 hours even if it doesn't do anything, as this is what they did IRL.