Hi Casey
It is not important to intercept the task force you only need to have made contact with it.
This gives you 1 bonus point.
The important thing is to go to Danzig Bay and sink two merchants which can include those that are docked in the two ports.
This will give you another bonus point.
Any additional sinkings will give you a few more bonus points to play with.
Another consideration is when in the bunker to make a save.
In the Baltic Mission this changes the start time back by about 6 hours.
This should put you in the Baltic area before the war starts.
Even if you are not getting the tonnage bar filling the torpedo firings and sinkings should be showing the correct information in the Captains log.
When you say you went back to base do you mean Kiel or Heligoland.
You can only refit in Heligoland.
Refits can cause problems and should be kept to a minimum.
If you returned to Kiel you can end your patrol in mid patrol and restart your mission without accepting it.
Your tonnage bar will still show your earlier kills.
You will gain additional crew bonus points because you ended the patrol.
You will see your navigation map date advance because of your end patrol.
It is worth getting the mod Change Days in the Bunker and reducing the statutory 14 days to your own number. I use 5 days.
It is always worth sending a patrol or contact report.
If you continue to have corruptions 0000 showing in the Captains log.
Delete all saves and reload the last AEB save and do another save or end patrol before leaving the bunker.
Do not make any manual saves over an older save.
Always make a manual save on top of the last AIG save.
The next AIG save will be a new one and your manual save is kept.
If you are on line try going off online.
If you are off line try going on line.
The tonnage bar not filling is not a mod problem.
I did about 10 Baltics before I got one to fill the tonnage bar.
In BTF from a manual save I sank the BB and BC and neither showed in the tonnage bar although both were recorded correctly.
I deleted the AIG saves and reloaded the manual save and sank the BC and immediately had an AIG save and the tonnage bar filled and the icon showed.
EBCW no problems.
NWA went in to Stornoway harbour sank 3 merchants all recorded.
Went in to Loch Ewe sank a merchant at anchor did not record in the tonnage bar.
Exited and reloaded the last AIG save which was a submerge save and sank two moving AMC’s and both recorded.
Sank a small merchant about 15km from Loch Ewe did not record.
Reloaded the last AIG save which was a submerge save and sank it again with the sinking being recorded on the tonnage bar.
Sometimes you need to be on line and other times offline.
It can take a bit of time to work out but once you are on top of it and it goes wrong you will have a better knowledge of what to do next.
One thing worth doing is to make notes of your game saves, manual saves, off line or on line.
It can be very frustrating at times, the game is worth it, just needs a lot of patience.
Peter
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