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Originally Posted by Egon01
I really like this mod  but I don't understand patrol orders system. It's october 1942, I sail from Midway with orders to patrol East China Sea. After 4 days of sailing I got message traffic that there is big convoy heading to Solomon islands. I thought "Great but I am to far for intercept them". After next 3 days I got next message, another convoy heading Solomon..  Ok I reached China Sea. Finished 72 hours patrol wihtout any kill. Next order "Patrol Philipine Sea by 555 km". Huge area but maybe I will have more luck this time. Meanwhile I got 5 other messages about big convoys with support for Solomon Sea. Great but I am about 15.000 km from Solomon...I reached Philipine Sea, started patrol, after 50 hours my first victim, 3500 tons  . I patoled all area with only 1 kill, returned to Midway coz out of fuel. Meanwhile I got few other messages with many convoys heading to Solomon or Celebs Sea.
My question is: why in almost all time I have to patroling the areas where traffic is small and there are areas where big battles continues ? I know I do not have to keep all orders and I can sail to this places alone but I do not see point in don't follow orders from commanders...or should I ?
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Dont worry about your ingles amigo.
the patrol orders / and ultra messages are programmed to be like that, sometimes you are too far away, but sometimes you can reach the projected intersect point...
if you get the message, plot the location with the ruler and see the distance from your current position, see if putting on speed you can get there ahead of the enemy convoy/task force as you get a time to be there... and be patient, the japs can be delayed on the way, but they show up (I have to carriers to my credit by intercepts due to ultra).
If you can reach in time, you should try for the intercept, your squadron commander wont chastise you for "steering to the sound of guns" as is every captains privilege, after all, the ship that put the finishing torpedoes on Bismark was more than 600 miles away when her posit was radioed and it took him some 30 hrs at 20+ knots to get there, albeit with low fuel..