How am I supposed to complete Norwegian campaign?!

[Solid Snack]

So I just got given the Norwegian campaign that would have 3 missions. The completion date is 10th of June, 1940. It is currently middle of May 1940 in game, which practically means there's no way I would be able to squeeze in three missions in between now and when the campaign ends. This was also not available to me prior to this date.

While historical accuracy is great, would it not be reasonable to either force the game to offer campaigns X date prior to when it supposed to end, or extend the date by Y from the date the player was given the mission for the first time?

[Shylock]

The Norwegian Campaign does indeed need a fix.
I got my first Mission in early May, and that would still be enough time to complete it, given that the Escort mission just takes 5-6 days total.

The problems I see right now are:

1) The Escort mission is not made for the Class II boat. The convoy starts ahead of you and drives 11 knots, your boat can only drive 12 knots with full ahead, so you have to catch up first and then keep going full speed. I wasn't able to catch up with the convoy before the first enemy destroyer attacked. It was luckily fought off, but still.

2) You do not get your first mission on April 9th, the historical start of Unternehmen Weserübung.

3) You do not get new Norway Campaign missions reliably. This might explain why it shows up so late for many players. I did some manual reloading on April 10th (this resets the missions given to you) but no luck. Then got my first mission somewhere in early May after returning to port from a free roam without a mission.
The only reason I was able to complete the Norway Campaign was by reloading in port again and again until I got another Norway Campaign mission.
In my opinion, as long as Unternehmen Weserübung is running, you should ALWAYS get a Norway Campaign mission when talking to the commander.

I am however very grateful for the Patrol missions in the Norway Campaign, as I hate Escort missions in literally every video game and UBOAT is no exception. So thanks for that at least.

[Kreo]

I think it's getting even worse, as I haven't receive a single f**king Norway mission till the campaign end. Tried both on Type II and Type VII (no vacations, of course), Saved loaded, updated mission list with reputation points something like 100 times. I think they broke Norway Campaign completely with latest updates

[Hecter94]

I finished the Norwegian campaign on the Beta a few days ago using the Type IID.
It was quite easy since the escort missions can be completed in just a few days.
The most difficult part is, indeed, just trying to keep pace with the troopships.

Overall, I found it one of the easier campaigns to complete. However, you probably shouldn't be able to complete it by just doing a bunch of escort missions in a row, as that makes it a bit too easy.

[Azureus [RUS]]

Also started with TypeIIA and upgraded to TypeIID but it's April 10 and I still haven't received the Norwegian Campaign missions

[Sam Wise]

Are you supposed to do all 3? Maybe you have to chose 2 of them?

[flx_ms]

It seems that the time of the missons and the real time is a bit of

Originally posted by Sam Wise:

Are you supposed to do all 3? Maybe you have to chose 2 of them?

[Skipper]

I tried to do it with the type 2 D today and I can only hold 5 torpedos, but the convoy gets attacked one group of 3 destroyers (sank them with 3 torpedos), then again by a group of 2 destroyers (used my last 2 torpedos and my AA Gun) and then ... there is a group of 5 destroyers chasing the convoy. How am I supposed to fight them off? Is maybe my mission buggy and I got too many enemies?

[Hecter94]

There's some randomness to it. Sometimes, you get a ton of enemies; sometimes, you get none.

You can try leading them away by letting yourself get detected and then running in the opposite direction of your landing boats.

Alternatively just take the L and try again and hope you get luckier next time.

[Alex Paen (ljekio)]

Is it even possible to get the Norwegian campaign if you started on Type 2? No matter how much I tried to get Type 7 as quickly as possible, I didn’t succeed until June 1940. And the Norwegian tasks never appeared even when I abused saveloading. Despite the fact that I did not give leave to the crew, I went to this northern island to the weather station, after which I received discipline 0 (and three sea wolves), even this didn’t bring me any closer to her, I just didn’t have time to do anything.

[The Helarquinn]

The missions in general do seem a bit off. I had Happy Time and Minelaying running, but had a couple of patrols with no option for either.

[kandnil]

I haven't tried the Norwegian campaign with any of the type IIs but did it a few times with a VII. I fully support the notion that for a campaign with that narrow a window, there should absolutely be a hard, non-random option to take the missions from the 8th of April (when the germans approached Norway). To leave it to chance whether or not you can complete the campaign, or indeed even start it, is not a great design decision in my opinion.

[tullaian]

Originally posted by Hecter94:

There's some randomness to it. Sometimes, you get a ton of enemies; sometimes, you get none.

You can try leading them away by letting yourself get detected and then running in the opposite direction of your landing boats.

Alternatively just take the L and try again and hope you get luckier next time.

This doesn't work. The moment they break off chasing you they auto beeline to the convoy again. Doing a play of this mission at the moment and even at night, in a thunderstorm the attackers automatically can find and intercept the convoy. I like you thought i could lead them away and let them amuse themselves depth charging me but, that doesn't work.

On this run had 3 single attackers, 1 pair and 1 3 ship element so that's 8 attackers for a sub with 5 torpedoes and a 20mm. The defending DDs are useless and are barely able to win a 2v1 let alone a situation where they are out numbered.

In a VII you could do this by engaging the corvettes at least with the deck gun maybe but, in the IIA/IID you cant do that and you dont have enough torpedos.

I also let the attackers attack the convoy once just to see what the defending destroyers would do and a single Black Swan was able to sink the entire convoy (all freighters and all destroyers) while taking effectively no damage in return.

This set of missions needs like some of the other campaign missions some retuning for Type IIA/D or more escorts for the troop ships to help out.

[Kestoren]

Nah doing this mission now, and using the Type II/D, I've fought off 15 ships, with only 5 torpedoes and a LOT of use from the 20mm. Running out of ammo, literally am stuck on the last 4 ships as an attack convoy since there's a V-Class destroyer that I just cannot destroy without torpedoes since it instant destroys the 20mm the moment it sees me. Save scumming is the only way to fight most of the surface to surface battles, I don't even have the game on a particularly hard difficulty, but the AI just has pinpoint accuracy no matter what, shooting through it's own hull to hit my ship.

The Escorts for the troopships have up and disappeared and cannot fight anything off and are always situated behind the convoy anyhow for some reason. This is the most pain staking mission ever, but to top it off... I'm halfway there and it's the 6th of April.

(Little edit, but it's insane how fast the destroyers can fire their main cannons, quite literally 4 rounds every 5 seconds.)

[Alex Paen (ljekio)]

From what I've seen, it's best not to take escort missions for type 2 in this campaign except for the very first one. Because after that, the attackers progress and I'd rather patrol than these weird battles.

[Drokk]

Originally posted by Shylock:

1) The Escort mission is not made for the Class II boat. The convoy starts ahead of you and drives 11 knots, your boat can only drive 12 knots with full ahead, so you have to catch up first and then keep going full speed. I wasn't able to catch up with the convoy before the first enemy destroyer attacked. It was luckily fought off, but still.

Don't sail your Type II submerged. I never do unless I spot ships, and if night and no warships not even then since merchant sailors have really bad awareness. On the surface it goes 18 km/h on half speed (still faster than the convoy). On full speed it goes 23km/h and on flank it goes 27 km/h. So, surface and go flank speed until you passed it, then set half speed ahead, and then every 1-2 hours press the routine check "dive" button (blue button with headphones). That makes the uboat dive and stop all engines and listen to hydrophones for 5 minutes which will pick up any contacts in 110 km radius, then surface and start the compressor and accelerate up to whatever speed you had before the dive. Repeat until you find the aproaching british warships, speed out and intercept them, torpedo them, then go back to infront of the convoy and repeat until mission is completed outside Norway's coast.

I always get a message during my attack of the approaching british warships that the convoy is under attack. Don't know if it's a bug or the german destroyers kill another invisible group before I get back.