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Originally Posted by SteamWake
Eventually I take the boys "home" for a little R&R after a couple of months.
I cant see where this would NOT be done in real life.
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I think in R/L when they went into a port they were not ordered to, there had better be a good reason. The cruises had set lengths of time and specific places the sub was to be at certain specified times. The captains did not have the freedom you do to decide to reload and go back out there on the same cruise.
As a practical matter, they weren't playing a game, so there was no value in doing that unless they were ordered to. There were no mutinies aboard US submarines, but there might have been if a sub commanders' love of battle prolonged cruises unduly and against orders. Your whole attitude changes when you have a good idea that one of three sailors won't be coming back.
I know the odds were a lot better than that for submarines, but sailors went out on multiple subs. In accounts of the day, I keep running into that one of three ratio, and it just doesn't turn out to be true at the end of the war when all the heads are counted. Apparently, though, that was the odds submariners thought they were against. The whole operation was top secret, which made it very difficult for sailors to get the whole picture of just how well we were doing out there.