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Originally Posted by LarzJG
Thanks for the response - Steam tells me I've put in 20 hours of game time so far, I have touched the game quite a bit, even sometimes inappropriately.  I just have a perfectionist streak that has made me restart the campaign around 4 times now.
I'm certain I've made the Tonnage-counter for objectives move even while not on the mission for that objective during a particular patrol. Grabbing a merchant in passing while hunting for the carrier, for example, made the 100k goal move. If that wasn't the case, what would be the point of the "patrol your area of choice or return to base" message? (I'll gladly stipulate that there are some missions where this doesn't come into effect, but "kill x tons of merchants" isn't among them)
Is it possible that the carrier group is also way more spread out than the normal patrols are? I once encountered a group of destroyers in a very, very loose formation in the target area, loose enough that I could sprint to the middle on the surface without detection, but there was nothing in the middle of them. |
You only have to request a mission from a particular campaign phase like "British Supplies" once, and then any kills in that shaded area will count against that quota. So i think what you did was having accepted it earlier on, then a few patrols later you sunk a ship in an area indicated by the earlier phase, and hence it counted against that total. But it wont count if you have never "requested mission" for that campaign phase. You can do as many as you want at the same time once you've made that initial request for a mission.
The carrier group is in a tight formation, sort of a hexagon with the carrier in the middle. However there are lots of destroyer groups of about 4 or 5 ships which can be confusing because from some angles they can appear to be the carrier group. You need to check them out, rule them out, and then continue searching.