PLEASE Help me leave Luzon Strait please!!!!

oskash · 11-14-16, 04:34 PM

1st career mission, deploy to Honshu - TICK. Eng and destroy enemy shipping TICK
Patrol east china sea TICK
Patrol Luzon strait!!!
Been here for a week almost ... 4 kills to total mission, no torps, no gunnery ammo ... patrolling for days and night within 100 nm of YELLOW STAR with Binoculars ...
have to keep running away and hiding aS no ammo to defend self
keep telling hq I have no torps and my position in hope of getting a radio message to go home

PLEASE tell me how to COMPLETE mission so I can go home get my medals and a new sub

Every time I use escape to exit it tells me ... mission incomplete.

HOW DO I GET THAT STAR TO GO FROM ORANGE TO GREY and complete my mission?

Barkerov · 11-14-16, 05:23 PM

Just go back to home port and dont worry about it. You dont have to complete objectives to end the patrol. As long as you have sunk ships command will be happy. But with no ammo, you wont be doing much of that!

oskash · 11-14-16, 09:01 PM

did some more crossing through star and it went GREY... on way home to pearl h ... tedious journey even in 5408 or whatevever

thanks

propbeanie · 11-14-16, 09:53 PM

Some of those Patrol areas are quite a bit smaller than 100nm, dependent upon the mod. Some are continuous time and must be completed in-whole, some will stop when you leave and start-up from there when you re-enter the patrol area. Nice mods tell you in the briefing how big of an area to patrol. Even nicer mods draw the circle on the map for you and tell how big of a circle it is. If the mission briefing doesn't tell me how big of a circle the patrol zone is, I'll usually hang rather close to it, unless something comes along, of course, ~and~ I have torpedoes... Else I go home. I get by that half tank marker, low on fuel, I go home.

torpedobait · 11-15-16, 08:28 AM

In TMO 2.5 without RSRDC you need to get within 18.5 NM to meet the objective, that and satisfy any other objective (sink shipping and/or minimum time.

11-14-16, 04:34 PM	#1
oskash Swabbie Join Date: Sep 2009 Location: Liverpool, UK Posts: 6 Downloads: 0 Uploads: 0	PLEASE Help me leave Luzon Strait please!!!! 1st career mission, deploy to Honshu - TICK. Eng and destroy enemy shipping TICK Patrol east china sea TICK Patrol Luzon strait!!! Been here for a week almost ... 4 kills to total mission, no torps, no gunnery ammo ... patrolling for days and night within 100 nm of YELLOW STAR with Binoculars ... have to keep running away and hiding aS no ammo to defend self keep telling hq I have no torps and my position in hope of getting a radio message to go home PLEASE tell me how to COMPLETE mission so I can go home get my medals and a new sub Every time I use escape to exit it tells me ... mission incomplete. HOW DO I GET THAT STAR TO GO FROM ORANGE TO GREY and complete my mission? __________________ Always grateful for the help of sub veterans and pc experts!

11-14-16, 09:01 PM	#3
oskash Swabbie Join Date: Sep 2009 Location: Liverpool, UK Posts: 6 Downloads: 0 Uploads: 0	thanks did some more crossing through star and it went GREY... on way home to pearl h ... tedious journey even in 5408 or whatevever thanks __________________ Always grateful for the help of sub veterans and pc experts!

11-14-16, 09:53 PM	#4
propbeanie CTD - it's not just a job Join Date: May 2016 Location: One hour from Music City USA! Posts: 10,098 Downloads: 451 Uploads: 2	Some of those Patrol areas are quite a bit smaller than 100nm, dependent upon the mod. Some are continuous time and must be completed in-whole, some will stop when you leave and start-up from there when you re-enter the patrol area. Nice mods tell you in the briefing how big of an area to patrol. Even nicer mods draw the circle on the map for you and tell how big of a circle it is. If the mission briefing doesn't tell me how big of a circle the patrol zone is, I'll usually hang rather close to it, unless something comes along, of course, ~and~ I have torpedoes... Else I go home. I get by that half tank marker, low on fuel, I go home. __________________ "...and bollocks to the naysayers" - Jimbuna

11-15-16, 08:28 AM	#5
torpedobait Ace of the Deep Join Date: Feb 2004 Location: Colorado Posts: 1,073 Downloads: 397 Uploads: 0	In TMO 2.5 without RSRDC you need to get within 18.5 NM to meet the objective, that and satisfy any other objective (sink shipping and/or minimum time. __________________ Run Silent, Run Deep, and Sink 'em All

11-14-16, 05:23 PM	#2
Barkerov Soundman Join Date: Aug 2015 Location: Australia Posts: 147 Downloads: 42 Uploads: 0	Just go back to home port and dont worry about it. You dont have to complete objectives to end the patrol. As long as you have sunk ships command will be happy. But with no ammo, you wont be doing much of that!