I'll take this opportunity to address one of the unanswered questions.
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Originally Posted by WilyPete
Finally, the August shake-down patrol doesn't work. You end up with 2 patrols in August...why 2? Why not just start it in mid-August?? It's very confusing and frustrating when you take your time to get to a patrol area so you can be there at the start of the war (how would I know when the war starts...I shouldn't) so if you play normally and get to the patrol area in good time, it's only the 29th August and you're heading back home when the war starts a couple days later...and if you do linger for the start at the patrol area then you end up with an unrealistic 20 day patrol...in a IIa?  |
The game will only allow a start date of the first of a given month. Otherwise it could have been made to start August 19, the historic date that 14 u-boats were sent to the Atlantic. You can just start the First of September, as no Type IIs were sent out earlier than that.
A better solution is to install SH3 Commander. It is an external tool that works perfectly with GWX. It allows you to adjust days in base, or even let it randomize them. That way you can do what I do: I leave the dock and then immediately end the patrol. I then either let it choose and have as many as three in August, or, depending on my mood, set it for 18 days and leave on the 19th.
There's always a solution.
Well, almost always. It still takes three weeks to load the game, and it still sometimes crashes for no apparent reason.