Okay... how do I drop supplies...

Snakeeyes · 04-05-09, 04:39 PM

Okay... I've managed to sneak all the way to a Japanese port (on the German side BTW). The mission is to drop off supplies...

Ummm... guys... I'm there. Geisha girls are waving me on shore practically!

How the heck do I end the mission objective?!!!

Gato76 · 04-05-09, 04:44 PM

stop the boat

GREY WOLF 3 · 04-05-09, 04:45 PM

Make sure you are surfaced stop engines when you are close to shore or harbour then box pops up to transfer supplys

Torplexed · 04-05-09, 06:56 PM

I've never understood why some of the U-Boats missions direct you to deliver supplies for the Japanese through friendly uncontested waters like some sort of exotic merchant vessel. Couldn't someone find a spare sampan for the job and release the U-Boat for more important tasks? Sounds unhistorical too.

peabody · 04-05-09, 07:52 PM

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Originally Posted by Torplexed

I've never understood why some of the U-Boats missions direct you to deliver supplies for the Japanese through friendly uncontested waters like some sort of exotic merchant vessel. Couldn't someone find a spare sampan for the job and release the U-Boat for more important tasks? Sounds unhistorical too.

Probably the mission was already written and they reused it.

Peabody

Torplexed · 04-05-09, 08:03 PM

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Originally Posted by peabody

Probably the mission was already written and they reused it.

Peabody

Swell.

You think they could have re-written them along plausible historical lines. Maybe you have to drop some agents off in the Middle East to stir up trouble for the British or deliver supplies to Subhas Chandra Bose's Indian Independence Movement to undermine their authority there.

Oh well...rant over.

Lord Kelvin · 04-05-09, 09:23 PM

Yeah, for resupply missions, agent deployments, and dropping off Marines, you have to stop the boat itself. For the latter two I think you might also have to do it at night (at least it forced me to do it at night), but for supply drops I'm pretty sure you can do it in the daytime.

Though once when I did a supply drop, the rubber raft somehow capsized as it deployed, so I ended up leaving the area while watching the two men in the raft row towards shore upside-down...

peabody · 04-05-09, 10:04 PM

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Originally Posted by Lord Kelvin

Though once when I did a supply drop, the rubber raft somehow capsized as it deployed, so I ended up leaving the area while watching the two men in the raft row towards shore upside-down...

At least you don't do what I did and back out while turning and run them over.

Peabody

MonTana_Prussian · 04-05-09, 10:12 PM

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Originally Posted by peabody

At least you don't do what I did and back out while turning and run them over.

Peabody

I did that last night while inserting Guerillas on New Britain

SteamWake · 04-06-09, 09:00 AM

Dont forget to mention.. thats the noisest rubber boat Ive ever heard !

MonTana_Prussian · 04-06-09, 09:04 AM

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Originally Posted by SteamWake

Dont forget to mention.. thats the noisest rubber boat Ive ever heard !

I hear ya. It makes the most horrible screeching/banging noise.

Sailor Steve · 04-06-09, 09:12 AM

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Originally Posted by Torplexed

I've never understood why some of the U-Boats missions direct you to deliver supplies for the Japanese through friendly uncontested waters like some sort of exotic merchant vessel. Couldn't someone find a spare sampan for the job and release the U-Boat for more important tasks? Sounds unhistorical too.

The one I loved was when it assigned me to drop supplies at a friendly port. Eight ships either docked or at anchor, and I couldn't pull up to the dock and offload them directly? No, I had to stop in the harbor and lower the rubber dinghy.:rotfl:

rubenandthejets · 04-06-09, 07:41 PM

Yeah, I got pretty annoyed at sailing halfway round the world to drop off supplies, passed a few convoys headed that way enroute.

Sod that.

I decided Uncle Karl might be more appreciative of my boat and crew, so I installed OM and I'm now having a lot more fun in the Atlantic (it's still "Happy Time").

Capt.Warner · 05-03-09, 11:30 PM

I hate the dropping off suplies missions.They are so boring and you practically dont get to kill anything because your in friendly waters.I just go to my navigation map and let time pass by and when I get there and drop the lifeboat like it will blow up lol.

Sea you on the High Seas
Capt.Warner

Stealhead · 05-04-09, 12:15 AM

So long as you in a US sub on a drop mission there is nothing that says you cant attack any target that comes along so long as you are able to get to the drop alive and make the drop you can do whatever on the way there or back. The U-boat ones are quite stupid I agree as is the fact that the stupid ass dingy always ends up clanging aginst your sub and very often gets flipped by waves. And another thing I notice if you do a supply drop 2 of your sailors drive the dingy but you never get them back and they never disapear from the roster but those 2 saps had to come form somewhere yet they simply go to shore and get left as if they where commandos or a spy being dropped off seems to me with the supply drop you should have to wait for you two crewman to come back and the game should make them come I dont think they will if you sit there.Just one of those strange oversites that has somehow been missed.Maybe those two sailors where stowed inside the dingy? If so crappy crappy crappy assingment.

04-05-09, 04:39 PM	#1
Snakeeyes Captain Join Date: Nov 2004 Location: trailing 1400 yards behind an Oscar-II with my outer doors open Posts: 488 Downloads: 54 Uploads: 0	Okay... how do I drop supplies... Okay... I've managed to sneak all the way to a Japanese port (on the German side BTW). The mission is to drop off supplies... Ummm... guys... I'm there. Geisha girls are waving me on shore practically! How the heck do I end the mission objective?!!!

04-05-09, 04:45 PM	#3
GREY WOLF 3 中国水兵 Join Date: Jan 2009 Location: Down deep avoiding drm attacks Posts: 284 Downloads: 33 Uploads: 0	Make sure you are surfaced stop engines when you are close to shore or harbour then box pops up to transfer supplys __________________

04-05-09, 06:56 PM	#4
Torplexed Let's Sink Sumptin' ! Join Date: Dec 2001 Location: Seattle, WA Posts: 5,823 Downloads: 43 Uploads: 0	I've never understood why some of the U-Boats missions direct you to deliver supplies for the Japanese through friendly uncontested waters like some sort of exotic merchant vessel. Couldn't someone find a spare sampan for the job and release the U-Boat for more important tasks? Sounds unhistorical too. __________________ --Mobilis in Mobili--

04-06-09, 09:00 AM	#10
SteamWake Rear Admiral Join Date: Mar 2005 Posts: 13,224 Downloads: 5 Uploads: 0	Dont forget to mention.. thats the noisest rubber boat Ive ever heard ! __________________ Follow the progress of Mr. Mulligan : http://www.subsim.com/radioroom/showthread.php?t=147648

04-06-09, 07:41 PM	#13
rubenandthejets 中国水兵 Join Date: Jan 2009 Posts: 279 Downloads: 20 Uploads: 0	Yeah, I got pretty annoyed at sailing halfway round the world to drop off supplies, passed a few convoys headed that way enroute. Sod that. I decided Uncle Karl might be more appreciative of my boat and crew, so I installed OM and I'm now having a lot more fun in the Atlantic (it's still "Happy Time"). __________________ HMAS Sydney III "Thorough and Ready"

04-05-09, 04:44 PM	#2
Gato76 Planesman Join Date: Apr 2008 Posts: 192 Downloads: 82 Uploads: 0	stop the boat

04-05-09, 09:23 PM	#7
Lord Kelvin Loader Join Date: Nov 2007 Posts: 88 Downloads: 12 Uploads: 0	Yeah, for resupply missions, agent deployments, and dropping off Marines, you have to stop the boat itself. For the latter two I think you might also have to do it at night (at least it forced me to do it at night), but for supply drops I'm pretty sure you can do it in the daytime. Though once when I did a supply drop, the rubber raft somehow capsized as it deployed, so I ended up leaving the area while watching the two men in the raft row towards shore upside-down...

05-03-09, 11:30 PM	#14
Capt.Warner Lieutenant Join Date: Apr 2009 Location: Somewhere in the Atlantic Ocean Posts: 262 Downloads: 60 Uploads: 0	I hate the dropping off suplies missions.They are so boring and you practically dont get to kill anything because your in friendly waters.I just go to my navigation map and let time pass by and when I get there and drop the lifeboat like it will blow up lol. Sea you on the High Seas Capt.Warner

05-04-09, 12:15 AM	#15
Stealhead Navy Seal Join Date: Feb 2009 Location: Kentucky Posts: 5,421 Downloads: 85 Uploads: 0	So long as you in a US sub on a drop mission there is nothing that says you cant attack any target that comes along so long as you are able to get to the drop alive and make the drop you can do whatever on the way there or back. The U-boat ones are quite stupid I agree as is the fact that the stupid ass dingy always ends up clanging aginst your sub and very often gets flipped by waves. And another thing I notice if you do a supply drop 2 of your sailors drive the dingy but you never get them back and they never disapear from the roster but those 2 saps had to come form somewhere yet they simply go to shore and get left as if they where commandos or a spy being dropped off seems to me with the supply drop you should have to wait for you two crewman to come back and the game should make them come I dont think they will if you sit there.Just one of those strange oversites that has somehow been missed.Maybe those two sailors where stowed inside the dingy? If so crappy crappy crappy assingment.