[Egan]

I probably wouldn't have bought it if the campaign had been limited to a set of maps and random encounters - this was fine for SH1 but one of the things that has struck me quite often from reading about the PTO sub war (and the U-Boat campaign as well infact) was the actual risk involved in getting to a lot of the patrol areas in the first place - Squeezing through choke points like the Lombok straight and so on.

Hopefully, once the Ops-Mod thing we are working on just now is finished the whole patrol will be a challenge rather than just the objectives which i've always looked on as being the middle of a good story rather than the whole thing.

Anyways, I think what you are wanting is probably doable to a certain extent by altering the coords at which you start out of harbour but a external program in the SHcommander mould would probably be needed so that those coords could be specifically tied to the various objectives. Afterall, there is little point in doing this if your start point was going to be Honshu whilst tasked with a recon mission in the South China sea. As for ending the patrol at sea and being teleported home, that I don't know but I imagine the code for this from Sh3 is buried in there somewhere.