What is your stance on Port Raiding?

[Armistead]

Originally Posted by Sniper297

"Is there ever an order to actually raid a port?" I've had three with stock game, photograph docked ships. One at Osaka, one in Formosa, and one in Manila Bay. The Manila Bay is the stupidest one, some escort carriers in extremely shallow water at the far north end, and there is a net but you can run over the top of it on the surface with extreme noise but no damage. Ridiculous part is whoever designed that mission failed to make sure the earliest starting date was Feb 42 or later. Since career missions are assigned at random it's possible to get that mission as the first one in an Asiatic career, and since Manila is still occupied by US forces about half the time you get up there and there's nothing to photograph since the targets were already sunk by friendly forces.

"subchasers in port don't start chasing you once the explosions start" When you fool around with the mission editor that becomes obvious - there's a checkbox for "Docked Ship", and if that's on it won't move ever. You can cruise past the front of an anchored destroyer and it will ping you, shoot at the periscope if you're close enough for them to see it, and drop depth charges (usually blowing themselves up) if you cruise past the stern close enough - but they won't get underway no matter what as long as the "Docked Ship" box is checked on in the mission editor. I'm not sure why that's even there, there's no manual for the mission editor, but it's one possible way to fix that particular problem.

Undock them, set speed to 0, proper waypoints and parameters....