What do u like to do on patrol?

sammy · 12-08-09, 06:37 AM

Hi . Just wondering what people like to do on patrol , dp you engage everything on the way ? ( I do lol ). And if u get to your area and see nothing in the 24 hours do u like hang about hunting and stuff or will u go back to your base? I like to hang around cause i feel bored if i havent blown summit up ......

RConch · 12-08-09, 07:55 AM

I do my 24 hrs, if it looks promising maybe wait another day, or I move to a "hot" spot for incoming merchants.
Unless I run out of torps, I stay on patrol for a month.

Kimmers · 12-08-09, 08:05 AM

i'd rather waste all my torpedoes on a trawler than go home empty handed

Sailor Steve · 12-08-09, 02:20 PM

I go to my assigned grid and remain there for my entire patrol. That's what they had to do in real life.

Kapt Z · 12-08-09, 03:22 PM

I attack anything that I am able to attack.

I will spend the required 24hrs in my square and then explore the adjoining squares until I run out of torpedoes, or fuel, or am damaged enough to require going home.

On my present patrol I am returning to base after about six weeks on patrol with 5 torpedoes left and 2 merchant ships sunk. It should take me a week or so to make St Nazaire so I might still run into something.

sammy · 12-08-09, 03:35 PM

yeh i think your right i should stay out longer

Dissaray · 12-08-09, 03:36 PM

I attack anything flying the wrong flags with exception of war ships unless I think it is a them or me situation; most of the war ships are light tonage and a real pain if they don't go down on the first strike. That is while in rout to the assigned grid. After my required stint there if there are no convoy routs near there I go to known hot spots near by and plot a course that leads me thru there and then on to home.

I generaly stay out until I don't have any ammo left, I take on damage that makes the patrol untenable or imposible, I lose any key personel like on my last patrol when my Chief of the Watch tried catching a deck gun round with his teath, or I only have enuf fule to get me home on a direct rout, though if I still have ammo I will engage targets of opertunity if I don't have to go too far out of my way to intercept.

FIREWALL · 12-08-09, 03:41 PM

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Originally Posted by Rconch

I do my 24 hrs, if it looks promising maybe wait another day, or I move to a "hot" spot for incoming merchants.
Unless I run out of torps, I stay on patrol for a month.

I do about the same. It kinda depends on the boat ( VII vs IX ) and patrol area and year.

I'm definately not going to sail a IX boat to S.Africa and spend 24hrs and then sail home.

Doenitz would

me.

Task Force · 12-08-09, 03:43 PM

sail... ocationaly press the rong button. sail FIND SOMETHING!!! Miss with 1 torp, hit with anouther... shell it. repeat..

Sockeye · 12-08-09, 03:59 PM

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Originally Posted by Sailor Steve

I go to my assigned grid and remain there for my entire patrol. That's what they had to do in real life.

Same here. Thirty days in the patrol zone or until my torpedo racks are empty, whichever happens first.

Orders be orders

Weiss Pinguin · 12-08-09, 05:07 PM

Generally, I plot a racetrack pattern around my assigned grid and three other adjacent grids, then do the same thing in another area, and if I'm in a Type IX, another series of grids. All in all 8-12 grids, and I run several laps around each racetrack. Usually my patrols last a while

Thank goodness for Jimbuna's gramophone tracks!

KL-alfman · 12-08-09, 06:12 PM

first I go to my assigned grid on the shortest way possible.
then I patrol there for some days, hopefully convoy-routes lead through. if not, I start visiting the "more interesting" adjacent grids. when there are only two or three eels left or diesel is low, I head to my home-port.
there are always some lone merchants between the Orkneys and Shetlands, there I use up all my left fish.
usually my patrols are around 4-5weeks.

jakethescot · 12-08-09, 06:16 PM

I sail right to my patrol area without plotting a course. I adjust my headings to point me in the general area. Once there, I patrol the grid for 24 hrs and then head off in other directions, working my way back to base.

12-09-09, 03:14 PM

Im moving to my ordered patrol zone and stay there for 25h. If I can expect some prey in this area, I´ll stay, otherwise I go after my gut feeling.

I stay on patrol till fuel and/or torpedoes are gone or the boat is heavy damaged.

And except the most ppl here I usually do not attack liners. They probably transport more civilians than anything else. Troop transports are something else of course...

mookiemookie · 12-09-09, 03:41 PM

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Originally Posted by Sockeye

Same here. Thirty days in the patrol zone or until my torpedo racks are empty, whichever happens first.

Orders be orders

Yep. I play it as close to history as possible. Of course I monkey around in SH3 Commander before my patrols so I get a grid I actually want to go to. But once I've been ordered there, I stay there. Heck, I even radio status reports every 24 hours even if it doesn't do anything, as this is what they did IRL.

12-08-09, 06:37 AM	#1
sammy Watch Join Date: Dec 2009 Posts: 26 Downloads: 0 Uploads: 0	What do u like to do on patrol? Hi . Just wondering what people like to do on patrol , dp you engage everything on the way ? ( I do lol ). And if u get to your area and see nothing in the 24 hours do u like hang about hunting and stuff or will u go back to your base? I like to hang around cause i feel bored if i havent blown summit up ......

12-08-09, 07:55 AM	#2
RConch Captain Join Date: Jul 2002 Location: No. Virginia Posts: 619 Downloads: 518 Uploads: 0	I do my 24 hrs, if it looks promising maybe wait another day, or I move to a "hot" spot for incoming merchants. Unless I run out of torps, I stay on patrol for a month. __________________ "Noch und Noch" Prowling the Nord Atlantik with GWX 3.0.

12-08-09, 08:05 AM	#3
Kimmers Bosun Join Date: Nov 2009 Location: in the desert yo Posts: 63 Downloads: 32 Uploads: 0	i'd rather waste all my torpedoes on a trawler than go home empty handed __________________

12-08-09, 02:20 PM	#4
Sailor Steve Eternal Patrol Join Date: Nov 2002 Location: High in the mountains of Utah Posts: 50,369 Downloads: 745 Uploads: 249	I go to my assigned grid and remain there for my entire patrol. That's what they had to do in real life. __________________ “Never do anything you can't take back.” —Rocky Russo

12-08-09, 03:43 PM	#9
Task Force Rear Admiral Join Date: Jul 2008 Location: SPACE!!!! Posts: 10,142 Downloads: 85 Uploads: 0	sail... ocationaly press the rong button. sail FIND SOMETHING!!! Miss with 1 torp, hit with anouther... shell it. repeat.. __________________ Task Force industries "Taking control of the world, one mind at a time" Last edited by Task Force; 12-08-09 at 04:00 PM.

12-08-09, 03:22 PM	#5
Kapt Z Grey Wolf Join Date: Aug 2007 Location: ...somewhere in the swamps of Jersey. Posts: 909 Downloads: 157 Uploads: 0	I attack anything that I am able to attack. I will spend the required 24hrs in my square and then explore the adjoining squares until I run out of torpedoes, or fuel, or am damaged enough to require going home. On my present patrol I am returning to base after about six weeks on patrol with 5 torpedoes left and 2 merchant ships sunk. It should take me a week or so to make St Nazaire so I might still run into something.

12-08-09, 03:35 PM	#6
sammy Watch Join Date: Dec 2009 Posts: 26 Downloads: 0 Uploads: 0	yeh i think your right i should stay out longer

12-08-09, 03:36 PM	#7
Dissaray 中国水兵 Join Date: Oct 2009 Posts: 280 Downloads: 35 Uploads: 0	I attack anything flying the wrong flags with exception of war ships unless I think it is a them or me situation; most of the war ships are light tonage and a real pain if they don't go down on the first strike. That is while in rout to the assigned grid. After my required stint there if there are no convoy routs near there I go to known hot spots near by and plot a course that leads me thru there and then on to home. I generaly stay out until I don't have any ammo left, I take on damage that makes the patrol untenable or imposible, I lose any key personel like on my last patrol when my Chief of the Watch tried catching a deck gun round with his teath, or I only have enuf fule to get me home on a direct rout, though if I still have ammo I will engage targets of opertunity if I don't have to go too far out of my way to intercept.

12-08-09, 05:07 PM	#11
Weiss Pinguin Ocean Warrior Join Date: Nov 2008 Location: Auburn, Alabama Posts: 3,333 Downloads: 101 Uploads: 0	Generally, I plot a racetrack pattern around my assigned grid and three other adjacent grids, then do the same thing in another area, and if I'm in a Type IX, another series of grids. All in all 8-12 grids, and I run several laps around each racetrack. Usually my patrols last a while Thank goodness for Jimbuna's gramophone tracks! __________________

12-08-09, 06:12 PM	#12
KL-alfman Grey Wolf Join Date: Nov 2009 Location: Weimar Posts: 930 Downloads: 86 Uploads: 0	first I go to my assigned grid on the shortest way possible. then I patrol there for some days, hopefully convoy-routes lead through. if not, I start visiting the "more interesting" adjacent grids. when there are only two or three eels left or diesel is low, I head to my home-port. there are always some lone merchants between the Orkneys and Shetlands, there I use up all my left fish. usually my patrols are around 4-5weeks. __________________ Life, Liberty and Property!

12-08-09, 06:16 PM	#13
jakethescot Engineer Join Date: Mar 2009 Location: Fulton Missouri Posts: 205 Downloads: 904 Uploads: 0	I sail right to my patrol area without plotting a course. I adjust my headings to point me in the general area. Once there, I patrol the grid for 24 hrs and then head off in other directions, working my way back to base. __________________ COYW !!!

12-09-09, 03:14 PM	#14
Nippelspanner Stowaway Posts: n/a Downloads: Uploads:	Im moving to my ordered patrol zone and stay there for 25h. If I can expect some prey in this area, I´ll stay, otherwise I go after my gut feeling. I stay on patrol till fuel and/or torpedoes are gone or the boat is heavy damaged. And except the most ppl here I usually do not attack liners. They probably transport more civilians than anything else. Troop transports are something else of course...