The Things We Do For Realism

[Sailor Steve]

I go to my assigned grid and I stay there. If I haven't seen an enemy ship after one week on station I roll a 6-sided die. On a roll of 6 BdU has okayed my request to move to another grid. I then roll again to get the direction of the move and roll a third time: 1-3 means I move one square in that direction, 4-6 it's two squares. If the initial roll was anything other than 6 I spend another week in that grid, and roll again. This time I can move on a 5-6. After another week it's 4-6.

This is of course at the beginning of the war. When I get some tonnage under my belt I'll allow myself more leeway. Of course this means I occasionally have an empty patrol. I've been playing subsims for almost thirty years. I can live with that.