If you hit the status button and not completed your mission, you should get a message to keep radio silence for 12 hours and continue, regardless if you have torps or not. If you report a convoy or TF and have no torps, I usually just get a message..if fuel and weapons permit, attack. Really it's up to you.
You won't be punished per say for not completing a mission if you had a good patrol sinking ships. Now if you don't complete your mission and have no ship sinkings eventually they'll relieve you. Obvious if you get a mission to drop supplies or men, that's something you should do. Frankly I can't recall ever coming back to base with men or supplies I should've dropped.
I wonder what would happen if you ignored that kind of mission if you still sunk ships.
I have done up to three patrols without ever going to the mission area numerous times. I usually go to historical battle areas. I've never been smacked on the hand, lost boat, ect..Still get new boats regardless. I have heard that you should complete you mission ever so often for promotion, I just don't know what the limit is. It may be possible that you get demoted if you keep ignoring missions, but I've never have. I just did the battle of the Coral Sea and ignored my mission in the Bismark Sea. I docked and got another mission near Truk. I ignored it, going to another historical invasion force. So twice I ignored my mission and still got medals, promotions and a new boat offer. Just have some ships sunk if you ignore them. Still, I complete them when they don't interfere with my plans, which is most the time.
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