How to complete "escort" missions?

[D3@thp0!nt]

Heyho,
I tried two times an "escort" mission form "la Spezia".
The first time the "time compression" was going crazy, so suddenly it started the "travel compression" and I was 500km away from my escort. (maybe suggestion for the devs to check such situations?) :)
Second try I encountered enemies... 30 ships... and, yeah... I have just too less torpedos to kill everything...

So, what's the secret? Can I command the escort to any other "port"?
Because going to another port and refill my torpedos seems to be "too long" so the escort could be killed anyway.

Any ideas?

[Flash Gordon]

30 ships? I've done this mission several times now, and I've never seen anything that approaches that number. It's usually a couple of corvettes and maybe a Destroyer.
No, you cannot command the escort to another harbor. They are there to deliver or evacuate troops from Africa; so it's set in stone.
As far as your time compression issue, that doesn't sound right at all. Are you using mods? If so, check out your OutPut Log, and read through it; see what's up. If not, you should send in a bug report.
I made a post awhile back about this mission not working right with my current play-through.
So I started another play-through, and now it works fine. For whatever that's worth.

[[82AD] ♤Stonewall♤]

Did this twice last night with no problems at all. You just have to stay in front of the convoy and far enough out. if u get radio messages you are to close.

[Dewgle]

Is OP playing with any mods? We really have to ask that question more often.

[[82AD] ♤Stonewall♤]

Originally posted by McDewgle:

Is OP playing with any mods? We really have to ask that question more often.

Also this

[Thahat]

probably mods, i had the same thing when using the mod uboat expanded... i think i survived with like one of my ships still alive and ALL my torpedo's, 88 and flak ammo depleted, and like 9 holes in my boat... (after repairs) pretty sure that encounter might be overtuned..

[D3@thp0!nt]

yes, I use exp UBoats, didn't expected that this mod causes timecompression issues. I will have a look into it, thnx a lot :)

[Dewgle]

https://steamcommunity.com/sharedfiles/filedetails/?id=2793751141

Please, OP. If you come across another bug in the future, investigate the mods you're using first before starting a thread about it. 99.99% of the time, the bugs I see being reported are being caused by mods.

It would have saved everyone a lot of time if you had troubleshooted the issue yourself by trying to replicate the issue without mods.

But that can be tedious and not everyone has the patience to perform investigative troubleshooting like that, that's fine. But if you're going to post a bug thread like this asking for help, at least list the mods you're playing with.

Otherwise just like what happened here, a whole lot of people will try to help you all believing your problem is vanilla-related.

[lanz]

I also encountered the problem of the mission "Escort" I could not finish, because the message "Mission failed" pops up, although there were no opponents nearby.

[morsee]

Hi guys, there's a problem with escorting. I just don't have a convoy on the map that needs to be escorted.