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Originally Posted by gouldjg
CB can you give any clues as to what year to start at and where best to go in both base and patrol grids.
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hi sorry about the delay - a neighbour popped in and we got talking--so i wasn't able to get much done---
here's what suggest to make testing in the campaign slightly less insane--
(this one DOES work
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edit your Campaign_LND file for say Lorient to this
[Unit 39]
Name=Lorient
Class=NavalBase
Type=407
Origin=German
Side=2
Commander=0
CargoExt=-1
CargoInt=-1
CfgDate=19380101
DeleteOnLastWaypoint=true
DockedShip=false
GameEntryDate=19400713
GameEntryTime=0
GameExitDate=19440909
GameExitTime=0
EvolveFromEntryDate=false
Long=-1440830.000000
Lat=6862770.000000
;Long=-399046.000000
;Lat=5729702.000000
Height=-17.000000
Heading=135.000000
Speed=0.000000
CrewRating=3
DelayMin=0
ReportPosMin=-1
ReportPosProbability=100
RandStartRadius=0.000000
NextWP=0
ive left the stock start location commented out for safe keeping--
this will if the theory holds out -( it works just tested it)-have you starting in a fairly good position to intercept most of the regular convoys just north west of ireland grid AM01( edit the contacts cfg to give your self unlimited range for the radio contacts--)
then just crank up the time excell and wait for the contact reports to come in --- they allways do pretty quickly usually i can get into attack range of a convoy within 15 minutes somtimes less---
1942 for a good period mid war (tho it's bit quiet early on)
(it's only a extreme version of moving the start location for the subs to the subpen --the game doesn't care where you begin )
starting from port each time is too much
if you are more interested in the american DD's then set the start location of the coast of New york and ambush the US escorted convoys as they leave port lol!
wonder what's going on and why things are so different --? nightmare really
if you want to move quickly thru the war testing as you go edit your basic.cfg time section to this
[TIME]
TransferFlotilla=1
NbDaysInBase=48
NbPatrolsInFlotilla=3
NbMonthsInFlotilla=6
daysinbase entry
this gives you about 4 patrols a year average so you can progress quite quickly---or make it less if you want to stay in the same time period for longer --for testing