If a person could only do "math" on certain aspects of the game... This is one area of the game where either someone did not realize that someone else had already made provisions for the computer using "zero" as the start for counting in the game's code, and thus added their own -or- the dev's "fix" for not repeating a mission came into play, with the mission assignment being done upon the player's arrival back at base, and thus the "counter" for missions is advanced prior to the code for awards and such is encountered... I don't know, but either way, look in the menu.txt file in the Data / Menu folder, and you'll find text around line 5890= that includes what you encounter: "... of the #SUBMARINENAME# during the #PATROLNUMBER# war patrol(s) of ..." etc. Of interest is the "#" hash symbol for print "formatting", such that there is the variable of "SUBMARINENAME" and "PATROLNUMBER". If there was a way to "capture" that prior to "fetching" it, and subtract 1 from it... but alas, this is SH4...
