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Originally Posted by mark bonamer
another FOTRS .63 feature....
July 4, 1944, approx 135-25 E 32 N
i just successfully attacked and evaded a task force when a troop ship convoy shows up, traveling approx course 225. i am evading NW (approx 310). everything sloooooows doooown. SH4 actually CTD...twice.
on the third try, i evaded way-north (nautical term) before RTB-Midway. the whole way east the most TC i could use was 128. SH4 acted as it did before LAA and GameBoost, etc. it was really weird. 
trying to make it back to Midway after a very successful patrol.
what should i look for in the convoy.mis file?  |
Alright, insomnia (FotRSU??), so I ran the ME a few more times, since running the game hasn't gotten my anything of interest. Here's a Google Maps representation of near-as-I-could-get-it, after about 2 dozen clicks:
... and here's the game:
between about waypoints 6 & 7 of that Task Force 105 you see highlighted is the approximate area. The Task Force came through there on July 4 just about every time I ran the ME player. The Troop Convoys were more erratic, and I never have had one come out near there on the 4th yet. However, on the 3rd at about 12N, TC103 and 112 drove through each other. TC103 is 4 DD and 1 Liner. 112 has 4 DD, 2 Liner and a Supply ship. The TF105 as you can see, can vary quite a bit. TC111 also came close, and might be the one, but there is also the TC102, that the two times I've seen it run close to then, it's taking a "short-cut" that does a beeline from just outside of Tokyo south and west, mostly west, and would pass a quite bit North of the location. However, it's normal route would put it right into there, and if doing the zig-zag routing instead of the "beeline" shortcut, it may well be the one you saw. It has one Liner and 2 DD. The thing of it is, almost every Troop Convoy in the 44a layer passes through that area... only the one TaskForce though. The next closest are quite a bit South of the location... Then we could get into all the other traffic, and if you went North and West to get away, you go into a couple more TC routes, and a few Convoys... I don't think you're close enough to be having the Jap_HarborTraffic generate though. How big is your Save data (in megabytes) folder?