To address an earlier point, I too disagree with the decision to remove the renown for going to your patrol area. Irl it served several major purposes: On your way out to the patrol area you were always at watch looking for single merchants or convoys. If you found one (on your way to patrol area) you'd have radio'd it in and had other boats in the area converge on it to attack. Same holds true once you get to your patrol area, but you could have also been assigned that area as a matter of recon to see if making future patrols of that area worthwhile.
1. Deck gun is perfect for the small fry, and even some mid size ones in calm weather where you can get good waterline shots. Unless the target is 7,000 or more I usually don't go after it. Murphy's law happens too often that you'll expend all your eels and run across a large troop transport or other 20,000+ target and have nothing to fire at it.
2. They do, if you do a search you'll be able to find a list of them (don't think it's in the GWX manual, but maybe community manual?) for each ship and its value.
3. Aside from annoying you 90% of the time no, since the game can't generate dynamic content you won't get ordered to a new location based on your current status. You will get some useful reports of convoy sightings and wolfpack attacks, and of all the action during battles or other historical events.
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