What follows are things that I've found in addition to what he has there. Has in-depth tutorials on most aspects of the game. I'm up to the middle of 1944 right now, starting over with a green crew after being destroyed by a patrol craft on my 8th patrol when I got too cocky. However, after some posts on Jim Atkins's site, I decided to try a few more patrols to see if I could win the Medal of Honor. Until recently, if I lived through five patrols, I retired and then started a new career at the retirement date of the previous career. I started in 1941 and am working my way through the war. My highest tonnage so far for a career where I retired is 70 ships for about 940,000 tons in 5 patrols at 115% realism, in mid-1944. If I shot at every ship that passed my way, I could usually exhaust my torpedoes in less than a day. But even waiting for big ships results in shorter patrols than is historically accurate: My longest time on patrol is about 10 days, not counting transit time, much less than most WW II sub patrols. Waiting for big ships can take a fair amount of real time. (See the book by Calvert about sub commanders being ordered to give a priority to oil tankers.) I also take on any carriers, battleships, and heavy cruisers that I encounter. This means that I allow most ships to pass by and go after only large ships that sink with few torpedoes, mainly oil tankers. (Most of the American sub commanders in WW II were allowed no more than four patrols, with a few exceptions.) What I've been trying to do is see how high a tonnage I can get in a single career lasting four to five patrols. I keep meaning to play the single missions and never quite get around to it. I prefer to play in career mode rather than playing the single missions. Two that I know of are the USS Pampanito,Īt Fisherman's Wharf in San Francisco, and the USS Requin, at the Carnegie Science Museum in Pittsburgh. There are many photographs and excerpts from several patrol reports. Site has extensive information on Dace (SS-247) and Darter (SS-227) as well.
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