Do you have to return to base?
 

I used to sail back to base, but now I just checkout when I have completed my mission objectives and expended 99% of my torpedos.
Any thought on this.

No, you don't have to sail back. However, if you sail within 30km limit of your base and then exit patrol, you get a bonus of 100 renown for being such a good chap. Up to you.

I see getting back to base as proberly the most important part of your mission. Especialy so if your playing DiD style.
It can lead to some tense moments as you're coming back to base after a good patrol, with no torps left and perhaps some damage.

It should be worth around 1000 pts if you make it back to port!!! :yep: :yep: :yep:

Well you can change that by going to the CFG/Basic folder.....and change it on your own... :up:

I agree, that's why I always sail all the way back, right to the port. After spending your last torps and got a permission to return to base, you can easily get a bit overexcited and go 'Devil may care' and try to rush back to base. After 1942, on the Bay of Biscay, this is the most sure way to get yourself killed. Seeing the friendly sheers with trees and stuff sure is welcome and worth the trouble.

I use Rubini's Harbor Traffic Mod, and I always save just before getting to port, take a nice break, and then enjoy the sights as I return home in real time. It's especially cool since loading the 16k mod. You can actually see the light from the lighthouses at almost 20 kilometers out when sailing into Kiel.

You have to sail back when your on 100% realism or you get the abondon career option.

Returning to base after missions
 

I always return to base, and do the approach in real time, gotta be done, you wouldn't want to disappoint all those nurses and the band now would ya? I'm wondering if late in the war if you could have the scenario in Das Boot where the allies attack the port with planes...I'm in early '43 currently so don't know what will happen..

Kentrat

Jumping into a Zeitkugel and going through a wormhole back to base takes the bottom out of this game IMO. But it still ain't anyone elses choice but yours. ;)

I think that must be more renown return to base :nope:

i change the renown to the same amount if i arrive to my patrol grid. :yep: :up:

I just go withing 30km of the base and hit ESC. No point on going all the way, as my comp stutters alot when in harbors. :(

I don't think it's there, even in the Real U-Boat mod (I actually opened the scripts and random layers up in the mission editor, but I didn't see anything closely resembling fighters going for La Rochelle - at any time :cry: ). Funny, as that's one of the things people will be looking for.

However, it would, in my opinion, suck so badly to actually have that U-96 scenario happen to you. "Yay, I've sunk 4 merchants, a carrier, a light cruiser, and the USS Nimitz time-warping trough that cyan tunnel - and I made it home! Ye-haaa!" ...Then you die :rotfl: .

I had an old version of HT (would of been from about 2months ago) installed and started a patrol to test it, the base commander thought it was a good idea to send me out in the middle of the night though..
I was using TC to get to daylight so I could see all the nice ships in the harbour, at about 7am just after the sun had come up a swarm of bombers came and destroyed the entire base :o .

So the HarbourTraffic mod will give you all sorts of wonderful suprises, but I haven't seen anything like that in the regular game.

:rotfl: