[Captain Jeff]

I'm based out of Pearl on my career. I've been using the triple digit TC for the cruise out to the patrol area. I'll go back down to the double digits once I'm within the 500nm range of the mission star. When patrolling, I don't go above 32 TC and I try to patrol with the same methods I've read in the WW2 submarine war patrol reports. Once I have a contact I rarely use TC, I keep it on 1 unless I'm doing an end around or something like that. I know it's a computer program but it's fun for me to try to simulate what the submariners really did.

It might be cool to try a real time sim. But I think it takes the realism back out of it unless you pay attention to the patrol at all times. Let's face it, when the crew reports a contact they expect the captain to order some kind of action. They don't want a captain who stays unresponsive in his bunk.

It might be possible to run a patrol in 4 TC. At that TC the crew still calls out their verbal warnings. And you could still go a day of the patrol for each day in real life as long as you dedicate six hours a day to the sim.

That said, to each their own. Enjoy SH in any way that pleases you.

And for those who have tried patrols without using TC, how does the weather act? Are you finding more or less changes with the "stuck weather syndrome"? Does it seem to change about the same as when you used TC, ie. does it seem to change in about the same amount of sim days? Just curious.