How to finish a patrol / complete a mission ?

[Razman23]

I went out on a order to patrol the Celebes Sea.

The bicnocular star was at the very east side of the sea and it stated for me to patrol Celebes Sea.

I spent over five days steaming back in forth in that mud pit, did not see one floating piece of wood, and spent over half my diesel fuel.

ARRRRRRRRRRRRRRRRRRRRRRGHHHHHH!

What exactly is the requirement that needs to be forfilled to complete the patrol?

In SHIII, you had to stay in the area for 24 hours, here it doesnt say.

Do I have to sink a certain amount of tonnage?

Im running at 100% releastic.

[RickC Sniper]

Reaching your patrol zone should have shown objective completed in your log. Then I get new orders saying I need to sink some tonnage...secondary objective I think.

[hyperion2206]

Originally Posted by RickC Sniper

Reaching your patrol zone should have shown objective completed in your log. Then I get new orders saying I need to sink some tonnage...secondary objective I think.

I think you only get those messages when your mission objective is marked by a flag. But since I've never completed a binocular mission I don't know if you get this message as well.

[Kromus]

Originally Posted by RickC Sniper

Reaching your patrol zone should have shown objective completed in your log. Then I get new orders saying I need to sink some tonnage...secondary objective I think.

Nope, there are 2 type of missions

First is only patrol designed area (stay close to star with binos - 100km or miles, im not sure which counts in perimeter) for 48 hours, change view and get back, star will be greyed out

Second is more confusing, its called DEPLOY AT ...... When u reach patrol area, star will grey out and u get second objective, to SINK SOME TONNAGE. I didnt found out the perimeter of patrol and how much do i need to sink for objective accomplished.

[RickC Sniper]

OK, thanks for that info.

[Pevs86]

I have exactly the same objective, I've been there for 2 days, sunk 4 Merchants and shot down 3 planes... still no update so I've just plotted aload of course points around the marker and hoping

[Razman23]

Originally Posted by Kromus

Nope, there are 2 type of missions

First is only patrol designed area (stay close to star with binos - 100km or miles, im not sure which counts in perimeter) for 48 hours, change view and get back, star will be greyed out

Second is more confusing, its called DEPLOY AT ...... When u reach patrol area, star will grey out and u get second objective, to SINK SOME TONNAGE. I didnt found out the perimeter of patrol and how much do i need to sink for objective accomplished.

Yep, I started another campaign and the first mission had the flag on it. I just had to get around the general area and I get a popup stating that I need to sink some ships. The star/flag turns from yellow to grey.

So far I sank two ships for a total around 7500t and ran into one Aussie ship that I nearly sank. LOL

[Galanti]

Look in the Data/Campaign/Objecives or something. There are a bunch of folders for all the mission types in the game. In each folder there is a .MIS file that will give you paramters for success. I think the defalt tonnage for sinking shipping is 10,000.

You can change these of course.

[walsh2509]

<My 1st patrol was star+binoculars to japan left PG 10th Dec 41, got to the star 17days later on the 27th Dec 41. Patrolling up and down the coast of Japan I sunk a total of 12 ships, 4 with torps, and 8 with Deck gun 4 of the 8 were 2tn fishing boats. The even after I ran out of torps and shells the icon didn't change colour until 11th Jan 42, that patrol mission once I reached the star was 14days. Sinking any amount of ships/tonnaged did not change it, it only changed after the 14 days were up.

[ryuzu]

Originally Posted by Razman23

I went out on a order to patrol the Celebes Sea.

The bicnocular star was at the very east side of the sea and it stated for me to patrol Celebes Sea.

I spent over five days steaming back in forth in that mud pit, did not see one floating piece of wood, and spent over half my diesel fuel.

ARRRRRRRRRRRRRRRRRRRRRRGHHHHHH!

What exactly is the requirement that needs to be forfilled to complete the patrol?

In SHIII, you had to stay in the area for 24 hours, here it doesnt say.

Do I have to sink a certain amount of tonnage?

Im running at 100% releastic.

I don't know exactly what the requirement is but I did complete a patrol mission on my first patrol of my first career.

It was on full difficulty with the exception of External Views and Auto-TDC (stadimeter crash in V1).

I went to the patrol area, sunk a ship or two, made contact and status reports and stayed around the objective point and eventually it said complete.

By the end I think I had used all my torps too which may also have a been a requirement.

r.

[donut]

Take your best shot, I will surface again ! Where do we go? Hanging tough in
Luzon Strait,two weeks no torps,six kills & star is still orange/incomplete

[Gildor]

Remember to keep sending patrol reports to base. I have been doing this at midnight each day of the patrol and orders are updated all the time. In 14 days at sea i have done 2 "patrol region" missions and a "photo op" mission during the same patrol.

Each time I came within 120-55 nm of the "flag" to get the "search region and destroy shipping" part of the mission. One of the missions I sank 2 ships and the other I shot down 1 aircraft. I was on patrol for max 48 hrs each.

Keep headquarters informed.

P.S. On second patrol i dropped off a supply raft and didnt get any further instructions. I headed for a area that might have targets and just after my midnight report I got notified to go patrol a sea to the north.

Again. Keep HQ informed.
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Also. I suspect that someone could read this better than I, but it looks like the time is set: (see this example)

[Objective 1]
ObjName=Patrol Honshu 01_Objective1
Obj=7
ObjType=0
RenownAwarded=200
AreaName=Patrol Honshu 01_Zone1
AreaType=0
Presence=0
Time=2880.000000

2880min / 60 = 48 hrs
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Again: It looks like you have to get within a certain range as well: Example

[MapZone 1]
Name=Patrol Honshu 01_Zone1
Radius=100.000000
MaxHeight=1000.000000
MinHeight=-1000.000000
Long=16761500.000000
Lat=4170000.000000
Height=0.000000

LOng and LAt plus Range. 100 what? miles?

[Gildor]

For a "sink targets in area mission":

[MapZone 1]
Name=Sink Luzon Strait 01_Zone1
Radius=100.000000
MaxHeight=1000.000000
MinHeight=-1000.000000
Long=14575712.000000
Lat=2581690.000000
Height=0.000000

[Objective 1]
ObjName=Sink Luzon Strait 01_Objective1
Obj=1
ObjType=0
RenownAwarded=100
ZoneName=Sink Luzon Strait 01_Zone1

[Objective 2]
ObjName=Sink Luzon Strait 01_Objective2
Obj=2
ObjType=2
RenownAwarded=250
Tonnage=10000
TonnageType=1

I read this as get within 100 miles? of Long/lat. and sink min 10000 tons.

[Gildor]

For Guard missions.

[MapZone 1]
Name=Guard Palau Islands 01_Zone1
Radius=40.000000
MaxHeight=1000.000000
MinHeight=-1000.000000
Long=16247033.000000
Lat=878100.000000
Height=0.000000

[Objective 1]
ObjName=Guard Palau Islands 01_Objective1
Obj=6
ObjType=0
RenownAwarded=250
ZoneName=Guard Palau Islands 01_Zone1
RescuedCount=5

It looks like they send aircraft to fight within the range 40 miles and you have to rescue min 5 survivors

[Pit]

I been on station for 3 days for a "supply" mission... enroute was order to attack 2 task force convoys and inflict heavy damage... got 1 heavy cruiser... severly damaged a battle ship (didn't sink... I ran out of torps... hit it 4 fish out of 4 though... all in the bow area)... sank 2 small passenger tranports... and a medium frieghter... all for 17,000 tons... in an S boat 8o% reality (I have external camera and target plotting on)... And THAT secondary mission STILL says incomplete!!! Only so much damage you can do with an S-boat.... I have been at the point where I need to drop off supplies for 3 days now... still haven't figured out hom to "dropp off the supplies"!!!!

Any idea what I need to do??