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desirableroasted · 08-25-11, 05:05 PM

You have to decide if you are going to play it as a game (rack up points) or play it as a sim (play the cards you are dealt).

If I wanted to cash in 150K -- 200K tons a patrol, I'd get myself a VIIB (of course, I could mod and get myself something nicer), go to the Happy Hunting grounds that we all know of. I wouldn't waste a torpedo on anything less than a Large Merchant. I would spend 180 days at sea, up in the AMs or down in Tanker Alley or outside Gibraltar just waiting for big targets. Heck, I would wait for deck gun weather... pure gravy. And I would pot 100K plus every patrol, at least into 1941.

But if you play it as a sim, I think (and its just me) you go where you are sent. Endure the weather. Try to sink what comes by. Test your skills against the randomness of the sim (and GWX).

Playing it as a sim, I have spent 50 days at sea without seeing a target. I've also done a 12 day patrol with over 100K. You just never know.

But, to close this, I think any old hand could go out there and give you 100k patrols without blinking. If they play that way.

08-25-11, 05:05 PM	#8
desirableroasted Grey Wolf Join Date: Feb 2006 Location: In the mountains, now. On the edge of the sea before. Posts: 933 Downloads: 47 Uploads: 0	You have to decide if you are going to play it as a game (rack up points) or play it as a sim (play the cards you are dealt). If I wanted to cash in 150K -- 200K tons a patrol, I'd get myself a VIIB (of course, I could mod and get myself something nicer), go to the Happy Hunting grounds that we all know of. I wouldn't waste a torpedo on anything less than a Large Merchant. I would spend 180 days at sea, up in the AMs or down in Tanker Alley or outside Gibraltar just waiting for big targets. Heck, I would wait for deck gun weather... pure gravy. And I would pot 100K plus every patrol, at least into 1941. But if you play it as a sim, I think (and its just me) you go where you are sent. Endure the weather. Try to sink what comes by. Test your skills against the randomness of the sim (and GWX). Playing it as a sim, I have spent 50 days at sea without seeing a target. I've also done a 12 day patrol with over 100K. You just never know. But, to close this, I think any old hand could go out there and give you 100k patrols without blinking. If they play that way. __________________ "Well, now, that's true... the IXC is a bit of a chick magnet..but you really can't beat the VIIB for off-road fun."