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Originally Posted by sabretwo
But warning, it will cost you whatever time you would normally be in port between patrols. Three weeks to resupply your boat! (I know its a stock issue...too bad it can't be fixed for a more realistic resupply period.)
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To be more realistic it should actually take
longer to ressuply at a milk cow (unless its fuel
only), transferring torpedos at sea was a very risky and time consuming process. If conditions were bad you were pretty much SoL and would've had to wait for the storm to pass. Trying to move a volatile warhead between two moving boats on North Atlantic currents wasn't an easy operation; in a u-boat pen or dockyard you're pretty much immobile and can be resupply in a factory assembly line manner.
Until the French ports become available the supply ships serve as my home base as their positions are perfect for either US raiding or mediterranean (before La Spezia/Salamis is available). Last patrol after expending all torpedos/ammo I had to dodge 3 outbound conveys from Halifax just to get to the supply ship, one of them I just had rotten luck and ran perfectly perpendicular into one and the escort saw me long enough before I could dive that he made life miserable for a few hours in the (relatively) shallow water in that area.