Is the Norwegian escort mission even possible?

[TheBigJordski]

"Medium difficulty". I've seen some years old posts about this but boy is it ridiculous. Aside from the friendly destroyer being instantly clapped and the endless mission breaking bugs, how am I supposed to sink 5 destroyers and over 10 corvettes?

[SpaceBikerV]

I just beat this campaign in a Type IID. There were 5 warships max each time. I had one miss but the convoy managed to destroy them

Just do the patrol missions instead

[Apos]

Same issue here. Single U-boat Type IID is suppose to protect from the fleets of destroyers and convettes. I managed to get convoy past 2 patrols, but 3rd one is impossible to deal with. About 12+ enemy ships, while Type IID has 5 torpedoes?

It's also anticlimactic to send a submarine against destroyers and corvettes.

[DominicoMucci]

I mean its historical they did get clapped, I managed to get the first misssion done with the ships landing but I expect them to get wrecked second time once the mighty RN knows about it, just like happened in real life. Unless I pull an absolute insane save and sink loads of destroyers which isnt going to happen.

[Das_Daw]

And then there is me: I took on the escort mission, and even it says it will start right away i still clicked somewhat stupidly on the "wait till the ship is loaded" button, because I still had supplies to transfer.
I got the cutscreen for waiting in the harbor for two days and after it was done, I had completed my norwegian escort mission, because they went without me and totally nailed it. Ez win for the Kriegsmarine

[SpaceBikerV]

Originally posted by Das_Daw:

And then there is me: I took on the escort mission, and even it says it will start right away i still clicked somewhat stupidly on the "wait till the ship is loaded" button, because I still had supplies to transfer.
I got the cutscreen for waiting in the harbor for two days and after it was done, I had completed my norwegian escort mission, because they went without me and totally nailed it. Ez win for the Kriegsmarine

When you are given group work at school and do nothing but still get credited

[TacticalSpaghetti421T]

Originally posted by Das_Daw:

And then there is me: I took on the escort mission, and even it says it will start right away i still clicked somewhat stupidly on the "wait till the ship is loaded" button, because I still had supplies to transfer.
I got the cutscreen for waiting in the harbor for two days and after it was done, I had completed my norwegian escort mission, because they went without me and totally nailed it. Ez win for the Kriegsmarine

Yeah i think thats really the only way to do that.

[TheBigJordski]

I understand the "that's how it was" aspect but the problem is the game expects you to be able to do it. I'm using the big boy type VII and still can't even remotely do it

[Promi]

I did it twice or three times, but not once any enemy showed. Nothing.

[Tikigod]

Originally posted by Stephen McCaffrey:

"Medium difficulty". I've seen some years old posts about this but boy is it ridiculous. Aside from the friendly destroyer being instantly clapped and the endless mission breaking bugs, how am I supposed to sink 5 destroyers and over 10 corvettes?

I finished the Norwegian campaign doing all but 1 of the missions as escort missions in a type IID.

The important thing to realise is that the missions aren't fixed pre-designed missions.... they're random.

The only thing constant is where your convoy starts and where it's going. The enemy that will engage the convoy each mission on the other hand is completely and utterly random.

Sometimes you'll not get a single enemy warship engage the convoy, other times you'll get two different fleets that if you don't spot and deal with ahead of time could potentially end up hitting your convoy close to the same time, and others you'll get a lone ship followed by later a larger fleet.

It really can be anything.

Hardest thing I encountered in mine was a fleet of 3 destroyers and 4 corvettes that arrived late into the route after having already dealt with some corvettes previously that were pushing for the convoy earlier on in the mission, meaning I only had 3 torpedoes left.

What I ended up doing in that situation was just targeting the destroyers, sinking 1 of them, crippling the 2nd and missing the 3rd. I then played decoy and let what was left of them chase me rather than have them attack the convoy, which worked for all of them except one corvette that pushed through to the convoy but got quickly sunk by the defending destroyers.

https://steamcommunity.com/app/494840/discussions/0/6015206486184083674

[Razorback1911]

It's certainly doable. My tips:

1. Dont intercept the attacking force too early, because then there's time for a second force to spawn
2. Make sure to torpedo the destroyers first. The convoy itself can handle the corvettes easily in case you miss them, but destroyer have far more guns...
3. After the first convoy escort mission, go for the patrols. The next convoy missions are really difficult
4. If you time it right, you can finish the 3 atlantic missions (giving you the second blueprint) and then finish the 6 norwegian missions in the VIIB.

[Tikigod]

Originally posted by Razorback1911:

It's certainly doable. My tips:

1. Dont intercept the attacking force too early, because then there's time for a second force to spawn
2. Make sure to torpedo the destroyers first. The convoy itself can handle the corvettes easily in case you miss them, but destroyer have far more guns...
3. After the first convoy escort mission, go for the patrols. The next convoy missions are really difficult
4. If you time it right, you can finish the 3 atlantic missions (giving you the second blueprint) and then finish the 6 norwegian missions in the VIIB.

Again... the convoy missions are 100% random.

So no the 2nd convoy mission is not "Very difficult".... because it's random.

Completely and utterly random.

My first convoy mission was some early single corvettes, followed by a fleet of 3 destroyers and 4 corvettes altogether.

My second convoy mission had no enemy whatsoever.

Third was a small enemy fleet of 3 corvettes.

And so on.

None of these convoy missions are pre-scripted missions the developers hand made.... they just set variable conditions of what might spawn and then let the mission system random roll what you actually get.

Also, hitting the enemy early doesn't give any more chance for more enemy to spawn, the mission has already decided once you set off what enemy will attack and from where. Killing enemy earlier or later changes nothing.

[gerald2]

Originally posted by Apos:

Same issue here. Single U-boat Type IID is suppose to protect from the fleets of destroyers and convettes. I managed to get convoy past 2 patrols, but 3rd one is impossible to deal with. About 12+ enemy ships, while Type IID has 5 torpedoes?

It's also anticlimactic to send a submarine against destroyers and corvettes.

those missions are total bullshittery ,when i was doing minelay missions i got kinda half of royal navy groupped exactly as my minelay point lol ,they wasn't able to make smart AI then they put hordes of dumbass AI on you ,i wont even mention so called spy missions when enemy warship know ur exact location all time lol it was mentioned by many ppl already ...

[SpaceBikerV]

Originally posted by gerald2:

wont even mention so called spy missions when enemy warship know ur exact location all time lol it was mentioned by many ppl already ...

This is the first time i’ve heard of this…. I’ve never had predator escorts during spy missions before

[Das_Daw]

Originally posted by SpaceBikerV:

Originally posted by gerald2:

wont even mention so called spy missions when enemy warship know ur exact location all time lol it was mentioned by many ppl already ...

This is the first time i’ve heard of this…. I’ve never had predator escorts during spy missions before

I did my first one yesterday and after my presence was known just kind of stirred away into the ocean to the west (instead of setting course for home) and aside from 19 airplanes I sighted that were not able to spot me (because I was submerged) I encountered a single destroyer/corvette that wasn't alerted to my presence either.
So I don't know if they patched it or if I just slipped through a whole, but my experience was pretty fine.

[LouSevrix]

I´ve done all escort missions about a week ago (i read about them beforehand).
I can´t tell if they are random but at least my missions were pretty different.
The first escort was pretty straight forward and easy (had to sink two corvettes and two destroyers in two seperate groups).
The second and third escort missions were extremely different and demanding. At one point one destroyer and a corvette managed to get to the convoy and they damaged two of the cargo ships. They still managed to make it to the port and i completed the mission.

It´s not my favourite mission design by far but i really like how the missions are different from one another and you have to adapt.