Newbie Patrol Questions

Athenry Bhoy · 01-03-08, 09:18 AM

First off this is perhaps the greatest game to ever grace my PC. Big history buff, especially WWII. However, never really read or knew much about the legacy of the U-Boat. After growing a little tired of the Combat Mission series I looked for a new "wargame" and decided to give this title a try and am I hooked! Not only is this a great game but it has inspired me to devout and enjoy much time learning about Naval combat and Naval history of the war. It is all very intriguing and amazing what these brave men on all sides did for their countries...Now on to my quetsions.

Please be patient with me as I have read the manual and searched the boards but could not find speciifc answers to these questions.

(I am playing GWX)

1.) What is the best way to patrol ? I have my orders to search area XX for 24 hrs. I do this but do not find any enenemy vessels. I typically am patrolling above water for 90% of the time only submerging to do a hydrophone search every 6 hrs. Is it typical in the early war to go days (5) with out coming accross any enemy merchants?

2.) Tying into above question, am I supposed to return to port after the 24 hrs ? Or do I send a patrol reports daily and only return when ordered or after spending all torpedos? (Do they ever give you new areas to patrol even if you are a ****ty captian lke me?)

3.) When given areas to patrol, say I am ordered to patrol area AF87. I patrol for 24hrs + and have no new orders. Is/was it typical for boats to patrol outside of their assigned area? Should I do this? As the area I am currently assigned to is close to German coast and would assume more targets are closer to the UK coast.

4.) Manual Targetting, Say I identify a enemy merchant ship. I bring her up in the periscope and correctly identify her in the recognition manual. I then go to the TDC and ask Weapons officer to find solution. He does, Should I then fire from the TDC or can I go back to the periscope and fire? Or does the firing solutin get lost? I only ask because I have not been able to find a damn ship but want to come up with my own solutions and compare to my Weapons Officer. Then be able to watch through periscope.

5.) Watch officer. I assign him at the beginning of my patrol and see his icon at the bottom of my screen. Later in patrol he is gone from my icon list but I still see him under my Crew management screen. Is this a bug or am I doing something wrong?

Thanks for your help.

01-03-08, 09:18 AM	#1
Athenry Bhoy Nub Join Date: Oct 2007 Posts: 3 Downloads: 0 Uploads: 0	Newbie Patrol Questions First off this is perhaps the greatest game to ever grace my PC. Big history buff, especially WWII. However, never really read or knew much about the legacy of the U-Boat. After growing a little tired of the Combat Mission series I looked for a new "wargame" and decided to give this title a try and am I hooked! Not only is this a great game but it has inspired me to devout and enjoy much time learning about Naval combat and Naval history of the war. It is all very intriguing and amazing what these brave men on all sides did for their countries...Now on to my quetsions. Please be patient with me as I have read the manual and searched the boards but could not find speciifc answers to these questions. (I am playing GWX) 1.) What is the best way to patrol ? I have my orders to search area XX for 24 hrs. I do this but do not find any enenemy vessels. I typically am patrolling above water for 90% of the time only submerging to do a hydrophone search every 6 hrs. Is it typical in the early war to go days (5) with out coming accross any enemy merchants? 2.) Tying into above question, am I supposed to return to port after the 24 hrs ? Or do I send a patrol reports daily and only return when ordered or after spending all torpedos? (Do they ever give you new areas to patrol even if you are a ****ty captian lke me?) 3.) When given areas to patrol, say I am ordered to patrol area AF87. I patrol for 24hrs + and have no new orders. Is/was it typical for boats to patrol outside of their assigned area? Should I do this? As the area I am currently assigned to is close to German coast and would assume more targets are closer to the UK coast. 4.) Manual Targetting, Say I identify a enemy merchant ship. I bring her up in the periscope and correctly identify her in the recognition manual. I then go to the TDC and ask Weapons officer to find solution. He does, Should I then fire from the TDC or can I go back to the periscope and fire? Or does the firing solutin get lost? I only ask because I have not been able to find a damn ship but want to come up with my own solutions and compare to my Weapons Officer. Then be able to watch through periscope. 5.) Watch officer. I assign him at the beginning of my patrol and see his icon at the bottom of my screen. Later in patrol he is gone from my icon list but I still see him under my Crew management screen. Is this a bug or am I doing something wrong? Thanks for your help.