Type II Paranoia

[Rambler241]

I'd just completed a very successful 13th patrol in a Type VIIb, allocated crew awards, partly reassigned the crew, installed the (newly available) MAN supercharger upgrade, replaced the two type II torpedoes in tubes 3 and 4 with type Is, and clicked on the map to start a new patrol. Some distance out of Brest, I checked the torpedo loadout, and found it contained a whole bunch of type II fish. Although it's now January 1941, I still don't trust the type IIs, and apart from that, I'm a speed freak, so with a suitable expletive, I abort and reload my "outbound" save, which I routinely make as we're leaving the dock, with a complete route to the patrol square plotted. Drat and double drat - it's got the same mixed loadout!

Don't panic - there's the "In base before mission" default save available. I load it, go to the torpedo screen, and replace the 2 type IIs as before. Just to confirm everything else is as before, I check the "equipment" screen, and I've got the MAN engine upgrade. Then to the "crew" screen, where I see my new crew layout flash up for an instant, to be replaced by the old layout. The old layout with none of the awards that should be there.

Now back to the "In base after mission" save, and go through the whole crew & equipment process again, recheck the solely type I loadout, and click on the map. We're in the dock at Brest with the same crap ?*%$& loadout as before, including the 5 type IIs.

Last resort - load the last save made on the way back to port from the previous mission, travel back, dock, and go through the whole process again. This time I find we're in dock with the standard loadout for this period - type IIs in tubes 3 & 4. Seeing a glimmer of hope (at least something's changed), I reload the "In base before mission" save, check everything, replace the two type IIs, click on the map and Lo! everything is fine, except of course we're bound for unknown (and possibly deadly) adventures.

Signed:

Jorg Neumann, Lieutenant Commander

(A much older and wiser man)

P.S. Any idea what caused these aberrations?