[KaleunMarco]

Originally Posted by Bartholomew Roberts

I play with TMO Update BH V2.0 +OTC for TMO 2.5 .
Started prewar S18 Career. Get exersice mission, went there , target ship do not show up. I went further south to the shore, nothing there
Find the mission file, it shows the target loops waypoints and does not dissappear. So where is the ship?

Bart,

although the directions lead one to believe that contact with the target must be made AND the target ship appears in the mission specs, for some unknown reason it does not appear in the game.

as C.Wreckless posted: just cruise around a while and the objective will complete.

that is because there are only two objectives for this mission and they are both patrol-time objectives. one in Lingayen Gulf and the other in the Gulf of Tonkin. the mission directive-text gets one focused on playing war games with the two friendlies but in reality it is a 72 hour area patrol.

personally, i have looked at the mission and cannot figure out why the stupid ship does not appear. if i do i will post the solution.

p.s. i reviewed this mission (again) and, in an effort to find the problem, i made two adjustments. i added an RGG in the same approximate area as the original Group of Two and i changed the Start Date parm of the mission to 1/1/1938. The RGG was added to see if it would react differently than the Group.

when the mission was executed, the Group spawned as expected but was not detectable. THAT is unexplainable at this time.

the RGG, which should have spawned when the Group spawned, did not spawn until we had been on patrol in the area for a while. since this was unexpected, it was not tracked. the RGG moved around according to its definition but, like the Group, it remained undetectable.

the term undetectable means that the crew did not detect their presence when they were in close proximity to our boat. no 'contact' warnings were announced.