Walkthrough of a Tour

xptical · 04-21-07, 09:16 PM

Could someone offer a walkthrough of a typical tour. The manual is virtually useless here.

I start out in my office with a cup of coffee. What should I do here before setting sail?

Now I'm in my boat outside Hawaii, with orders to patrol off the coast of Japan. It's a long trip.

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When I launch the main menu of the game, I set the options to limit battery and fuel. However, I started a campaign on NORMAL diffulcity but my fule never runs down. Why?

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With such a long trip, I know I need to steam on the surface at 2/3 by night and 1/3 underwater by day. The underwater run always drains the batteries. Should I surface and recharge or just hide out at 90 feet till dark?

What compression is acceptable? I usually use 2048 till I pass Wake and then use 1024 under water by day and 512 on the surface at night. 256 in the patrol area. Is that okay?

Now I'm in the partol area. I hang out under water by day at 1/3rd and listen for contacts. At dusk, I surface and look for something to shoot.

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I have this bad habit of location convoys heading away from me. Or diagonally. In 10 hours, a slow convoy covers, what, 8NM? Medium maybe 12NM?

I know I can plot a line and figure out where the convoy will be. Then I try to intercept. At what point do you give up on a convoy? Do you chase it for a day? Two? A week?

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At some point, you run out of fuel or torpedoes. I had a mission to drop a guy off in Japan and then go to the South China Sea. Once there, I was told to sink merchant vessels. I spotted a convoy travelling away from me about 20NM out. I plotted their course and then used FLANK to skirt the edge till I was a few miles in front. I waited for dark and went in for the kill. I ran into one of those "uber vessels" and it took 6 torps to sink. My batteries were dead and I was exausted. I had sunk one and hit two more. I submerged to 150 and waited to reload. I figured I'd come up and pick off the injured ships later. Once on the surface, there were no where to be found. I used FLANK to catch up with the convoy, and the ships I hit were steaming along inside the convoy. I checked my mission status and saw one ship down but the mission was still incomplete.

Why was it unsuccessful even though I sank a vessel?

MikeJW · 04-21-07, 09:32 PM

Normal has unlimited fuel. When in your office in base look to the left and you'll see a radio. Click on it to customize career difficulty.

When you go 1/3 underwater the game sets it to 3 kts. Manually adjust it to 2 kts and you can stay down all day.

Thats about the TC I use.

Slow convoys seem to do 5-6 kts. Medium I'm not sure but seem to average 8-9 kts.

The mission requirements are tricky. I think you have to sink a certain tonnage within a small area. Theres a thread here that describes what must be down to get a sucessful completion. I dont worry about it too much and just sink ships.

04-21-07, 09:16 PM	#1
xptical Bosun Join Date: Jan 2006 Location: Macon, Georgia Posts: 62 Downloads: 30 Uploads: 0	Walkthrough of a Tour Could someone offer a walkthrough of a typical tour. The manual is virtually useless here. I start out in my office with a cup of coffee. What should I do here before setting sail? Now I'm in my boat outside Hawaii, with orders to patrol off the coast of Japan. It's a long trip. SIDEBAR When I launch the main menu of the game, I set the options to limit battery and fuel. However, I started a campaign on NORMAL diffulcity but my fule never runs down. Why? END SIDEBAR With such a long trip, I know I need to steam on the surface at 2/3 by night and 1/3 underwater by day. The underwater run always drains the batteries. Should I surface and recharge or just hide out at 90 feet till dark? What compression is acceptable? I usually use 2048 till I pass Wake and then use 1024 under water by day and 512 on the surface at night. 256 in the patrol area. Is that okay? Now I'm in the partol area. I hang out under water by day at 1/3rd and listen for contacts. At dusk, I surface and look for something to shoot. SIDEBAR I have this bad habit of location convoys heading away from me. Or diagonally. In 10 hours, a slow convoy covers, what, 8NM? Medium maybe 12NM? I know I can plot a line and figure out where the convoy will be. Then I try to intercept. At what point do you give up on a convoy? Do you chase it for a day? Two? A week? END SIDEBAR At some point, you run out of fuel or torpedoes. I had a mission to drop a guy off in Japan and then go to the South China Sea. Once there, I was told to sink merchant vessels. I spotted a convoy travelling away from me about 20NM out. I plotted their course and then used FLANK to skirt the edge till I was a few miles in front. I waited for dark and went in for the kill. I ran into one of those "uber vessels" and it took 6 torps to sink. My batteries were dead and I was exausted. I had sunk one and hit two more. I submerged to 150 and waited to reload. I figured I'd come up and pick off the injured ships later. Once on the surface, there were no where to be found. I used FLANK to catch up with the convoy, and the ships I hit were steaming along inside the convoy. I checked my mission status and saw one ship down but the mission was still incomplete. Why was it unsuccessful even though I sank a vessel?

04-21-07, 09:32 PM	#2
MikeJW Helmsman Join Date: Mar 2005 Posts: 106 Downloads: 0 Uploads: 0	Normal has unlimited fuel. When in your office in base look to the left and you'll see a radio. Click on it to customize career difficulty. When you go 1/3 underwater the game sets it to 3 kts. Manually adjust it to 2 kts and you can stay down all day. Thats about the TC I use. Slow convoys seem to do 5-6 kts. Medium I'm not sure but seem to average 8-9 kts. The mission requirements are tricky. I think you have to sink a certain tonnage within a small area. Theres a thread here that describes what must be down to get a sucessful completion. I dont worry about it too much and just sink ships.