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Originally Posted by Hnrq
Thanks for the answer.
Here's another one:
Early in the game, how should I patrol? On surface or under it? Stay put or move around?
And what if I go back base while mission is still incompeled?
I have TMO + some minor mods.
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Subs spent at least 90% of their time on the surface. I do so as well only diving for spotted aircraft, sound checks, and attack approaches. Depending on the time of year and location spotted aircraft may force you down for most of the daylight hours. Keep in mind that the more battery you use, the more fuel you will use recharging them. Typically I only run at 2 or 3 knots while submerged to conserve batterys. For sound checks its just a quick dip down to 80 or so feet, a few sweeps with the sonar, then back up again.
Stay put or move around.... well depends on the mission type. One requires you to stay within 100 miles of the patrol point (star with binoculars) for those I usually just drift around saving fuel unless something interesting pops up. The other requires a certain amount of tonnage (Star with a flag). For those I move around... alot, at times hundreds of miles from the original star point.
Go back to base without fullfillig the mission. No big deal just a slight loss of renown. You wont be courtmartialled or anything. In fact sometimes the game will give you missions that you will not be able to fullfill, either too far for the fuel you have left or not enough munitions to acheieve the tonnage.
The game makes a judgemnet wether or not to give you another mission based on how much fuel / munitions you have on board. One trick is if you want to get that RTB message is to get rid of all but one or two of your torpedoes. How you get rid of them is up to you :rotfl:
Here is a good guide on "How to complete a mission"
http://www.subsim.com/radioroom/showthread.php?t=111509