NEED HELP WITH AGENT INNSERTION IN CAREER MODE

SeaviewSkipper · 01-09-15, 06:59 PM

Hello everyone. I just joined and am happy to be here. I've been an avid sub simmer for more than 30 years, since Silent Service came out for the Commodore 64 system in the early '80's. Yup. I'm that old! I'm also an aficionado of naval and maritime history.

I just started playing SH4 a few days ago, and very immersively. I love the game. Anyway, I started a Career in late 1942 commanding the Gato-class sub USS Barb. I successfully completed my first two patrols, sinking about 48,000 tons of Japanese shipping.
My problem is with patrol number three. My mission is to insert an agent into an installation on the island of Honshu with utmost secrecy. I left Pearl and managed to avoid contact with the enemy all the way to Honshu. I arrived near the destination objective "star" on the navigation map. I stayed stopped at periscope depth in deeper water until nightfall. Then i came up to 34 ft with decks awash and proceeded toward the beach on electric motors at 4 knots. I headed for the middle of the "star" and got to within about 300 yards of the beach. I stopped. Nothing happened. I got no message that the agent had taken a raft to the beach and that the mission objective had been completed successfully. I waited. Nothing.
Then I changed direction and proceeded to head along the shoreline toward the actual installation. There was a gunboat and a tanker moored to the docks. I crept to within 1500 yards and stopped. Nothing. No dice. No completed mission.
I have no idea what the game wants me to do to get the agent ashore.

I mean, I can't go into a slip at the dock and start speaking Japanese to the locals.

I would REALLY appreciate some help from any of you who have successfully completed this mission. Thanks very much. Jeff

01-09-15, 06:59 PM	#1
SeaviewSkipper Loader Join Date: Jan 2015 Posts: 84 Downloads: 8 Uploads: 0	NEED HELP WITH AGENT INNSERTION IN CAREER MODE Hello everyone. I just joined and am happy to be here. I've been an avid sub simmer for more than 30 years, since Silent Service came out for the Commodore 64 system in the early '80's. Yup. I'm that old! I'm also an aficionado of naval and maritime history. I just started playing SH4 a few days ago, and very immersively. I love the game. Anyway, I started a Career in late 1942 commanding the Gato-class sub USS Barb. I successfully completed my first two patrols, sinking about 48,000 tons of Japanese shipping. My problem is with patrol number three. My mission is to insert an agent into an installation on the island of Honshu with utmost secrecy. I left Pearl and managed to avoid contact with the enemy all the way to Honshu. I arrived near the destination objective "star" on the navigation map. I stayed stopped at periscope depth in deeper water until nightfall. Then i came up to 34 ft with decks awash and proceeded toward the beach on electric motors at 4 knots. I headed for the middle of the "star" and got to within about 300 yards of the beach. I stopped. Nothing happened. I got no message that the agent had taken a raft to the beach and that the mission objective had been completed successfully. I waited. Nothing. Then I changed direction and proceeded to head along the shoreline toward the actual installation. There was a gunboat and a tanker moored to the docks. I crept to within 1500 yards and stopped. Nothing. No dice. No completed mission. I have no idea what the game wants me to do to get the agent ashore. I mean, I can't go into a slip at the dock and start speaking Japanese to the locals. I would REALLY appreciate some help from any of you who have successfully completed this mission. Thanks very much. Jeff