I don't know about this one (the original) but I do think sometimes the old vic conditions aren't as good as could be.
These ones seem a bit complicated to me, the ships on station basically just extend game play to the last 30 mins of the 2 day game limit. Other side gets vic points for the sinking of ships so no need to have a on station covering the whole map I'd think. What do you think?
I'm replaying again to try to work out why vic conditions didn't fire when I sank all blue other than a couple of sub (not seemingly in vic conditions) and had only lost a couple of ships (and subs) so I think had the number onstation - certainly the number for min conditions.
I track vic conditions in my toolbox and AIWindow, they aren't showing up the On station conditions being met I think. (You can't look at them once you get to game time limit which cought me out as I was playing at full time acceleration )
Are you still on 'holidays' I guess you won't have time to look further and do more testsing till you get home.