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Originally Posted by propbeanie
Thanks for looking further into your own situation Comder.. The circle and MapZone used for the patrol for your mission is built the same as MM's, so the green circle is slightly smaller than the zone it marks. I do want to ask you fellows though, if either of you shot any torpedoes enroute to the Objective that wouldn't complete? The DynamicMiss assignments have a couple of lines like:
MinimumFuelPercentage=40
MinimumAmmoPercentage=25 which I had always assumed meant "at the time of assignment", but perhaps it influences the ability to complete? I don't know.
I'll try similar to what you fellows just did on the huge test mission I have. I came to no conclusions last night after putting the game folder in the Windows Path variable, though it does seem that the graphic effects are better... I don't know though - a person's imagination can run rampant in things like this...  |
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Originally Posted by Comder
Propbeanie, I did not use any torpedoes while going from one mission to the problem mission. I do have a habit of saving the game after each mission. I do this mainly because it ends up being late.  I hope this assists you.
Thanks, Comder |
Ahoy, propbeanie...
Like Comder, at least on this particular mission set... I did not let any torps loose, not until I got into the 'Sibutu passage' area.
During My, 'hot footing' it from Surabaya... to Manila... to Basilan passage... to Sibutu, I came across ships, just NOT viable IJN ones.
It was NOT until I got into I think... end of day 1, maybe early hours of day 2, of patrolling Sibutu, that I ran into My 1st 2 vict... erhm, sinking volunteers...
merchie's, which as previously reported... I phoned home on them & got orders to sink on My discretion... which, frustrated with the lack of targets during patrol 1... (which I ran into a Minekaze escorting a Chitose tender, radio'ed in & got told to not engage that other assets were being sent in, I closed as close as I was able to on the surface, no less... & fired off 2 fish at the Chitose. Both missed, as the Chitose took evasive maneuvers.. the Minekaze was well behind the Chitose, for an escort, which seemed rather odd for it to be trailing behind... & yes, it was underway, not sitting stationary. After the 2 fish missed, it sped up & started searching, but never came any where near to where I was, as by the time I sent the fish off... I disengaged, so as to technically say that I followed orders...
and was exiting the area to My patrol area, which was Apari for 10 days, as I recall. That was in the 1st patrol.. & the only viable enemy targets I came across... all the others were U.S. or other countries that were NOT on the sink & destroy menu.
) I promptly targeted both merchie's & sent them on a 1 way trip to meet Ol' Davey.
I think, of the last 2 I sank in the area... the last 1 was making to the area of #5's sinking. With # 5, was not in their viz zone yet & was making for hitting them from a 90 degree angle, when all of a sudden, they started hotfooting it in My direction. After a terse, tense game of cat & mouse (with Me as the mouse that roared), I managed to sink that escort with the 2nd fish... the 1st, they deftly evaded. I had that 1 set to slow (which I'm thinking, if only I had set that 1 to high, wouldn't have had to use the 2nd fish... ahhh welll...) ... the 2nd, with close range I set to high & nailed their hide to My conning tower.
So, other than that, no.. I didn't pop off any torp's early on in patrol 2.
M. M.
