Any way to begin a mission in open ocean, instead of way upstream?

zygoma · 04-01-12, 08:07 PM

Honest, I searched as well as I could before asking, but when I set up my searches, I seem to get either zero hits or about 6 million......
Some of the home ports are wa-a-a-a-a-y up a convoluted narrow passage, and regardless of how many deck watch crew or speed or anything else I can think of, I can't use time compression to get out to sea much faster than just leaving TC=1.
I've tried 4 or five of the ways out of Bergen, and each time, it takes some considerable distance at lawn-chair-and-cigar-with-sunglasses speed to get to where I can open 'er up. Not that many enemy aircraft seem to make incursions into our bases, and damn few battleships try sneaking up the inlets.....
So is there a way I can begin a patrol (in a career) having already gotten out into open sea? As it is, the first thing I do once I make open water is to do a "save game" at that point, naming it "omw AN12" (whatever my patrol zone is) so I have a place to go back to if I get dead soon after I pull away from the coast.
Lorient (or St. Nazaire?) or one of the other French coast bases is nearly as bad. I should probably not be so impatient to take on ships with my faulty torpedoes and crew who can't pull a gun trigger if it's raining outside <sniffle!>
Thanks,
-- Zygoma --
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May the number of your submarine's surface operations exceed your dives by exactly one at the end of your career.

04-01-12, 08:07 PM	#1
zygoma Loader Join Date: Sep 2006 Posts: 84 Downloads: 66 Uploads: 0	Any way to begin a mission in open ocean, instead of way upstream? Honest, I searched as well as I could before asking, but when I set up my searches, I seem to get either zero hits or about 6 million...... Some of the home ports are wa-a-a-a-a-y up a convoluted narrow passage, and regardless of how many deck watch crew or speed or anything else I can think of, I can't use time compression to get out to sea much faster than just leaving TC=1. I've tried 4 or five of the ways out of Bergen, and each time, it takes some considerable distance at lawn-chair-and-cigar-with-sunglasses speed to get to where I can open 'er up. Not that many enemy aircraft seem to make incursions into our bases, and damn few battleships try sneaking up the inlets..... So is there a way I can begin a patrol (in a career) having already gotten out into open sea? As it is, the first thing I do once I make open water is to do a "save game" at that point, naming it "omw AN12" (whatever my patrol zone is) so I have a place to go back to if I get dead soon after I pull away from the coast. Lorient (or St. Nazaire?) or one of the other French coast bases is nearly as bad. I should probably not be so impatient to take on ships with my faulty torpedoes and crew who can't pull a gun trigger if it's raining outside <sniffle!> Thanks, -- Zygoma -- __________________________________________________ ___ May the number of your submarine's surface operations exceed your dives by exactly one at the end of your career.