Supply ship question

[Keelbuster]

Originally Posted by jimbuna

I'd have thought (making a balance between historical facts and gameplay conditions) that if your on an extremely distant patrol, once on your outward journey and the same on the return.

That sounds right. But for a Type VII working the western approaches, did they resupply from milchows or did they just go back to Lorient? It seems logical to stay in the air-gap if possible.