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Yes, and it's not very real.
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Originally Posted by CaptainCox
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... you can expect your career to last between 5 and 8 patrols.
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Yes, I know, and I don't care for it. It's an average over the war including late war skippers, who only made a few patrols, and skippers relieved for failure. 5-8 is not very realistic for the simulation, and it's not much fun. A good early war skipper could easily make a dozen or more patrols in 2 or 3 boats (tours) over the course of the war. My Tigrone's skipper made 13 war patrols in 2 boats (Searaven & Tigrone) in 2 tours. Some good skippers made more.
I think a good model for the game is 18 patrols divided in 2 or 3 boats with 6 to 9 patrols in each, as a career model. If you live, that ought to take you through the war from first to last. Several skippers, who were at sea on patrol in the first months of the war were at sea on patrol when the war ended.
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I've a broom at the mast said he, for the broom is a sign for me, that wherever I go, I sweep the mighty sea.
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