I can see maybe it takes the elapsed time for the star icon to change and maybe I never noticed the duration before, but I've always gotten the COMSUBPAC message when I arrived on station but that's not happening in this case. I don't mean any kind of "objective completed" message, it's usually been something like "engage enemy merchant shipping" as soon as I arrive in the vicinity of the patrol location marker.
The weather, I'm not worried about it - it's kind of cool actually - I just mentioned it in case there might be some correlation with weather state and patrol zone arrival recognition. I doubt it but hey you never know in what way a "bug" might manifest itself.
Regarding moving the gun, I'm not sure if whey you say "would like to know if that's a real option" if you mean a real option in the game, or if it was done in real life? In the game, I wanted to upgrade from the standard 3" 50 cal to the 4" 50 cal. So, in the crew management screen accessed from the "office" while in port between patrols, I selected the "gears" icon (normally this brings the damage control screen when at sea). This had optional equipment that could be "purchased" with the renown points. It had options for the 4" deck gun bow or stern. I selected stern, dragged it over to the right side of the screen and it was finished. When I started the patrol my deck gun was indeed upgraded to the 4" and was mounted at the stern, and my original 3" on the bow was gone, but so were my provisions for a deck gun crew in the sub's crew management page. The deck gun still works, but only if I man it myself. I can't have it auto-manned because I can no longer assign any crewmen to it.
I read somewhere after the fact that this is in fact a bug the game - if you relocate the deck gun you'll lose your assignable positions for the crew to man it. So, yes it is actually available to do in the game but it's a somewhat "broken" option.
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