Quick question about mission objectives - range that ships sunk count?

Raven Morpheus · 11-01-13, 03:52 AM

In SH5 I've read that you can sink ships as far out as something like a 200km radius of the objective marker and they count towards the tonnage required to complete the objective.

In SH4 is there such a range from the objective marker at which ships sunk won't count towards the objective?

For example yesterday I completed the first campaign mission where I was ordered to a point just south of Honshu and had to patrol that area. I set an area with 100 nm radius centred on the objective mark using the compass and patrolled that area, but a lot of convoys/ships were outside of that area and I'm wondering if I could have made my life easier by engaging them, because I wasn't finding many ships/convoys in the 100nm radius area I had set. And today as another example in my second mission I'm patrolling a 100nm area just west of the Marshall Islands and all I'm seeing is friendlies, but the Caroline Islands aren't that far away and I think I'd find some enemy merchant shipping there - but would that be too far from the objective marker to count?

11-01-13, 03:52 AM	#1
Raven Morpheus Machinist's Mate Join Date: Aug 2012 Posts: 125 Downloads: 143 Uploads: 0	Quick question about mission objectives - range that ships sunk count? In SH5 I've read that you can sink ships as far out as something like a 200km radius of the objective marker and they count towards the tonnage required to complete the objective. In SH4 is there such a range from the objective marker at which ships sunk won't count towards the objective? For example yesterday I completed the first campaign mission where I was ordered to a point just south of Honshu and had to patrol that area. I set an area with 100 nm radius centred on the objective mark using the compass and patrolled that area, but a lot of convoys/ships were outside of that area and I'm wondering if I could have made my life easier by engaging them, because I wasn't finding many ships/convoys in the 100nm radius area I had set. And today as another example in my second mission I'm patrolling a 100nm area just west of the Marshall Islands and all I'm seeing is friendlies, but the Caroline Islands aren't that far away and I think I'd find some enemy merchant shipping there - but would that be too far from the objective marker to count? Last edited by Raven Morpheus; 11-01-13 at 04:53 AM.