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Originally Posted by Egan
For a start I tend to patrol my ordered grid sqaure for at least ten days instead of for 24 hours. This is a bit more realistic as the boats were not on any kind of 'go and hunt where you please' spree.
From my starting grid I will open out to one box away from it in each direction and then 2. This takes about a three weeks to a month. If after this time I still have not had a kill I will ask BdU for orders (roll a dice, odd number, comtinue patrol where I am. evens, i can go else where.) When I reach a new patrol zone i do the same thing again. If I have to roll the dice again I figure in how much fuel I have left and I maybe go home instead. My patrols tend to last from 6 to 10 weeks...
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This sounds very good, and it might work well as the basis of some RUb 'house rules'. But is 6 to 10 weeks usual for a patrol in the Atlantic? I wonder if we could find average patrol durations for Type VII and IX U-boats?
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