New sub means a new base?

AVGWarhawk · 03-16-09, 01:34 PM

Well sir...the action is around Japan and southward from Japan. Not much you can do east of Wake. Sucks having to traverse all that ocean but TC helps there. Soon you will be heading to the Truk and those islands that are not as far. Just watch you fuel.

Anyway, you have to make the assigned patrol areas. If not, you get retired before long.

Piggy · 03-16-09, 06:49 PM

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Originally Posted by AVGWarhawk

Well sir...the action is around Japan and southward from Japan. Not much you can do east of Wake. Sucks having to traverse all that ocean but TC helps there. Soon you will be heading to the Truk and those islands that are not as far. Just watch you fuel.

Anyway, you have to make the assigned patrol areas. If not, you get retired before long.

Whoa just a minute, are you saying if I dont make that patrol assignment I'll be keelhauled?

Seriously, patrolling south of the Phillipines from Pearl is crazy. Its 5000 mile trip each way, that leaves me very little fuel to patrol with, do end arounds and have a litte extra for safety's sake. Tpping up on fuel at midway is out of the way and would cost me moe fuel, the only other option is to go straight to darwin (another 2000 miles) and then head to my assigned patrol area after. Either way I would be spending 40 to 50 days just transitting, and maybe 10 days patrolling.

That assigned patrol area has to be because the game thought I was still at Freemantle, not Pearl Harbour. I have never been sent this far south from Pearl Harbour and I cant think of any boat that did this without being re-based out of Australia afterwards, which I cant do.

To hell with my orders I say...

AVGWarhawk · 03-17-09, 11:38 AM

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Originally Posted by AVGWarhawk

Well sir...the action is around Japan and southward from Japan. Not much you can do east of Wake. Sucks having to traverse all that ocean but TC helps there. Soon you will be heading to the Truk and those islands that are not as far. Just watch you fuel.

Anyway, you have to make the assigned patrol areas. If not, you get retired before long.

Whoa just a minute, are you saying if I dont make that patrol assignment I'll be keelhauled?

Seriously, patrolling south of the Phillipines from Pearl is crazy. Its 5000 mile trip each way, that leaves me very little fuel to patrol with, do end arounds and have a litte extra for safety's sake. Tpping up on fuel at midway is out of the way and would cost me moe fuel, the only other option is to go straight to darwin (another 2000 miles) and then head to my assigned patrol area after. Either way I would be spending 40 to 50 days just transitting, and maybe 10 days patrolling.

That assigned patrol area has to be because the game thought I was still at Freemantle, not Pearl Harbour. I have never been sent this far south from Pearl Harbour and I cant think of any boat that did this without being re-based out of Australia afterwards, which I cant do.

To hell with my orders I say...

You have to stop at Midway even if you are going straight to Japan. You have plenty of fuel after stopping at Midway. Also, there are sub tenders that will crop up south of Celebes. But yeah, if you skip assigned areas you will not get another assignment and possibly get canned when you arrive back to port. It is unfortunate we can not work fuel as well as they did in real life but it is obtainable it you stop at Midway and watch your fuel. I'm in the same boat as you and on my way to Celebes out of Pearl. Now worries for me. I spotted a tender on the northern most shores of Austrailia

I transit at standard and when I do hit the patrol area, I patrol at slow speed. It does help save fuel.

Stealhead · 03-17-09, 12:59 PM

I think the getting moved to a new base when you take a new sub is kind of random. At times they have moved me other times I took the new sub and I was still at the same base.

ancient46 · 03-18-09, 12:50 AM

Most of the time the game follows history. If you are in Fremantle and offered a Gato before December 1, 1943 you are transferred to Pearl. Gatos first became available in Pearl before production ramped up. After that date you will stay in Fremantle and get a Gato. The Balao was available in Fremantle on August 1, 1943.

You can refuse a new boat and will be offered another later. I generally refuse the first time it is offered unless it is after Dec 1943 to get a Gato and avoid Pearl early in the war.

Note: those dates refer to the stock game. If you are running MODs they could be different. Check the Flotillas.upc if you want to know.

Max2147 · 03-18-09, 10:17 AM

I also started at Manila (running 1.5 vanilla w/RSRDC). I started in an S-boat, then got a Porpoise class when I was at Perth. In the middle of a patrol I got flash traffic telling all Porpoise boats to go to Midway, so I went there and got my Gato. I've been based at Midway ever since.

If you're going to Japan you have to watch your fuel. But if you're going to the East Indies you can always top off your tanks at Darwin anytime in the patrol.

AVGWarhawk · 03-18-09, 02:46 PM

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I also started at Manila (running 1.5 vanilla w/RSRDC). I started in an S-boat, then got a Porpoise class when I was at Perth. In the middle of a patrol I got flash traffic telling all Porpoise boats to go to Midway, so I went there and got my Gato. I've been based at Midway ever since.

If you're going to Japan you have to watch your fuel. But if you're going to the East Indies you can always top off your tanks at Darwin anytime in the patrol.

Now here is a skipper who plans his work and works his plan

03-16-09, 01:34 PM	#1
AVGWarhawk Lucky Jack Join Date: Jun 2005 Location: In a 1954 Buick. Posts: 28,281 Downloads: 90 Uploads: 0	Well sir...the action is around Japan and southward from Japan. Not much you can do east of Wake. Sucks having to traverse all that ocean but TC helps there. Soon you will be heading to the Truk and those islands that are not as far. Just watch you fuel. Anyway, you have to make the assigned patrol areas. If not, you get retired before long. __________________ “You're painfully alive in a drugged and dying culture.” ― Richard Yates, Revolutionary Road

03-17-09, 12:59 PM	#4
Stealhead Navy Seal Join Date: Feb 2009 Location: Kentucky Posts: 5,421 Downloads: 85 Uploads: 0	I think the getting moved to a new base when you take a new sub is kind of random. At times they have moved me other times I took the new sub and I was still at the same base.

03-18-09, 12:50 AM	#5
ancient46 Officer Join Date: Apr 2008 Location: Pennsylvania Posts: 239 Downloads: 108 Uploads: 1	Most of the time the game follows history. If you are in Fremantle and offered a Gato before December 1, 1943 you are transferred to Pearl. Gatos first became available in Pearl before production ramped up. After that date you will stay in Fremantle and get a Gato. The Balao was available in Fremantle on August 1, 1943. You can refuse a new boat and will be offered another later. I generally refuse the first time it is offered unless it is after Dec 1943 to get a Gato and avoid Pearl early in the war. Note: those dates refer to the stock game. If you are running MODs they could be different. Check the Flotillas.upc if you want to know.

03-18-09, 10:17 AM	#6
Max2147 Seasoned Skipper Join Date: Feb 2009 Posts: 714 Downloads: 0 Uploads: 0	I also started at Manila (running 1.5 vanilla w/RSRDC). I started in an S-boat, then got a Porpoise class when I was at Perth. In the middle of a patrol I got flash traffic telling all Porpoise boats to go to Midway, so I went there and got my Gato. I've been based at Midway ever since. If you're going to Japan you have to watch your fuel. But if you're going to the East Indies you can always top off your tanks at Darwin anytime in the patrol.