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Originally Posted by Piggy
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Originally Posted by AVGWarhawk
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.  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...  |
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
I transit at standard and when I do hit the patrol area, I patrol at slow speed. It does help save fuel.