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Originally Posted by torpedobait
The first thing I do upon starting a mission is set the gunner to fire at will, set the radar range up one click, set torpedo depth to 10' on all tubes, and then go to the Nav map. There I scribe a 10 NM circle around the Home Base symbol before setting course waypoints for the Navigator. At that point, before I even have a course or set a speed is where I saw the missing tilted anchor. Right at the onset of the patrol. There were no "saves" taken, or Alt/Tab out of the game, since I hadn't moved from the patrol start point. I don't take saves within 100 NM of the base.
I did run the patrol for about 10 days before deciding a continuation was fruitless, since I would never be able to end the patrol.
I ended the patrol by loading a save I took in the Office before requesting the transfer. At that point I took a transfer to Midway, where everything was normal. The Midway base had a tilted anchor, etc. That's why I think there is something, somewhere, related to Milne Bay Advance Base that prevents it being recognized as a home port.  |
Oh crap! I forgot one very important detail. Here it is 12:46 am and this nagging thought kicked me out of a sound sleep: When I clicked on the Start Mission button to leave Milne Bay and got to the Nav Map, I was NOT at Milne Bay! I used the default "start outside the harbor" setting as usual, but when I saw the map I was outside the harbor in BRISBANE. How it took a transfer to Milne Bay and then started me off from outside Brisbane is a mystery too. I did check - Brisbane did not have the tilted anchor either.
I apologize for forgetting this one fact that might give you more of a clue. Must have been a side effect of the Covid vaccine!