TMO 2.5 renown
 

Hi everyone,
just a quick question about renown in TMO.Is it worth trying to complete the missions the game gives you?Do you get a score for these missions or is it based on tonnage sunk.

good hunting

It helps you Andy, but its so easy to override with tonnage. I usually hit 2 patrol spots and if the 3rd is too far off I'll ignore it and go where I think they're hiding.

Especially with RSRD early in the war you can come up with goose eggs doing missions. It's important to do some, so do two. If you're finding targets, two will probably deplete your torpedoes. But if you aren't getting lucky then it's time to strike out on your own and bag some tonnage.

If I don't sink anything in my first patrol area I use the convoy routes mod and search along them until I have to head back to base.(Even if you don't run into a convoy the chances of finding single merchants are much higher.)

Thanks guys,
good to know i'm not wasting my time checking these areas out

good hunting

Something I have noticed with RSRD is while you may be assigned in a "dry" area or what seems to be as far as merchant traffic etc, there are times you are in an area where a big prize will transit through such as a battleships, carrier, heavy cruisers or all as a TF, you have to find it.Sometimes, youll get an ULTRA, other's its left to you being in right place at right time. This happens in all phases of the war.I learned this as I was puzzled why the designed of RSRD would assign player to dry areas.One I think was as RSRD aims for historical accuracy, let's face it, every sub did not always get a hot area. Second, since TF traffic was meticulously recreated in RSRD, he made it so player should be in right area at right time. I discovered this by being in an area for 30 days with nothing, getting ready to head home, then boom a carrier with escorts sails into my area.

There were times where I found nothing and wondered so I looked up the traffic in the campaign files, sure enough, if i had been a few miles west i would have made contact with a BB etc.

Most recent was a patrol to the Java Sea in March /April 1945. I thought, what a dead area.I sunk a minelayer patroling outside Surabaya and shot down a couple planes, had an attack on two DE's set up but broke it off when on next scope observation at night, it was storming, couldnt see the targets.Then sure enough on April 21, 1945, after 30 days of boredom, an ULTRA about a U boat transiting the area, with coordinates included came in.I patroled area submerged on April 23 and sure enough about noon, sonar had the faint sounds of a sub, was able to attack and sink a U boat.Not a bad patrol for 1945.