Need help with current situation off coast of Luzan

Crumpler · 02-02-15, 08:30 PM

This is a continuation of my question and exploits from this thread:

http://www.subsim.com/radioroom/showthread.php?t=218147

I was ordered to patrol off eastern coast of Luzan and sink merchant shipping. Reached destination and received credit for it, but still seeing "sink merchant shipping" as incomplete, even though I sunk two small coastal merchants and another of 5000+ tons. Noticed most of the traffic is off western Luzan coast and so inched out of the 100 nm radius I had made for myself around patrol area...then inched out again, and again, until I found myself off western coast with massive carrier group headed due north and within visual range. Slipped past two destroyers and am headed for group at flank speed and depth 200.

Questions:

1) Is time spent in the patrol area cumulative or does it reset every time you leave, forcing you to have to stay for another 48 or 72 hours (I forget which it is) every time?

2) Am I wrong, having seen a huge task force within striking range, to leave my patrol area? I'm in a S-18 class which isn't the best boat for attacking military shipping and I figure there was a reason they sent me to a quieter part of the island to concentrate on merchants. But I'm here now and I'm not turning back.

3) I have five torpedoes left (missed a couple times on those merchants). Destroyers crawling all over the place. My plan is to position myself ahead of the task force, go to periscope depth, take out the first carrier I see, dive deep and escape to NE or SE, depending on circumstances. No mods for increasing torpedo damage and "dud" torpedoes turned on in the options. CAN it be done? Any advice from more experienced skippers? Will I die?

02-02-15, 08:30 PM	#1
Crumpler Nub Join Date: Jan 2015 Posts: 4 Downloads: 31 Uploads: 0	Need help with current situation off coast of Luzan This is a continuation of my question and exploits from this thread: http://www.subsim.com/radioroom/showthread.php?t=218147 I was ordered to patrol off eastern coast of Luzan and sink merchant shipping. Reached destination and received credit for it, but still seeing "sink merchant shipping" as incomplete, even though I sunk two small coastal merchants and another of 5000+ tons. Noticed most of the traffic is off western Luzan coast and so inched out of the 100 nm radius I had made for myself around patrol area...then inched out again, and again, until I found myself off western coast with massive carrier group headed due north and within visual range. Slipped past two destroyers and am headed for group at flank speed and depth 200. Questions: 1) Is time spent in the patrol area cumulative or does it reset every time you leave, forcing you to have to stay for another 48 or 72 hours (I forget which it is) every time? 2) Am I wrong, having seen a huge task force within striking range, to leave my patrol area? I'm in a S-18 class which isn't the best boat for attacking military shipping and I figure there was a reason they sent me to a quieter part of the island to concentrate on merchants. But I'm here now and I'm not turning back. 3) I have five torpedoes left (missed a couple times on those merchants). Destroyers crawling all over the place. My plan is to position myself ahead of the task force, go to periscope depth, take out the first carrier I see, dive deep and escape to NE or SE, depending on circumstances. No mods for increasing torpedo damage and "dud" torpedoes turned on in the options. CAN it be done? Any advice from more experienced skippers? Will I die?