Question...

[Sailor Steve]

Originally Posted by TDK1044

So, if you are assigned a 24 hour patrol of a specific grid, but you encounter a large convoy on the way and use all of your torpedoes sinking ships, are you supposed to continue to the grid anyway in order to send contact reports? Or is it Ok to return to Base?

Even in the stock game sinking a lot of tonnage will offset the renown lost for not going to your grid or for staying there 24 hours. You can still do it if the renown means anything to you, but that is the only penalty you will suffer if you don't. As Jim said, in GWX that renown is removed anyway.

In real life they weren't ordered to stay for 24 hours, they were ordered to stay until ordered otherwise. Sometimes the entire patrol was spent in one place, and sometimes they saw and sank nothing. I'm sure if a real kaleun attacked a convoy and spent all his torpedoes BdU would have no problem with him coming home again. On the other hand sometimes they were ordered to stay on station and make daily weather reports, something that isn't in the game.