[Immelmann]

Originally Posted by propbeanie

OK, thanks for that. As I'm editing the TaskForce layers routings, I find that the 43a_Jap_TaskForce_008 group does NOT come up from New Guinea and go "right" to the NNE, and then do the weird turn to the east of Mindanao. Where you encountered it means that it made a right turn se of Mindanao and came directly across south of Mindanao to where you encountered them. The "Loop" probability on waypoint 415 to 443 is set to 100%, so the group cannot go from 415 to 416 and do the turn at 428-429-430. The only route for them to be where you saw them is to go from waypoint 133 to waypoint 429, a relatively straight shot. I do not like these inexplicable bad spawns... by my count, there are at least five ships that are not set correctly in the water. The first is the DD in the opening scene of you vid, sitting too high. The 2nd is the wildly rocking Okinoshima, sitting out of the water. The third is the CA across from it, too high in the water. The fourth is the CVE in front of that, too high in the water, and the fifth is the tanker, which is ~way~ too low in the water. If you find more of that, let us know please. I'm building some test missions to look at the ships individually in RGG. thanks.

You're welcome. Yes what you say is consistent with my observations of the formation. If I find more I will let you know. Last night I was successful in reestablishing contact after breaking off and navigating north of the shoals while the task force passed to the south of them. This time I was able to actually put two boats on the bottom. An IJN destroyer with a MK27 and that Tanker that was way too low in the water (MK27 & later finished with deck gun after dark). Having no propulsion, after the MK27 hit, the formation had abandoned this ship. On second contact the flat top was also pitching more than I observed on first contact. Or seemed to me to be anyway. Wind was still at 8 m/s. Due to geography and the task force direction of travel I surmised that the group must be heading for the northern end of The Makassar Strait where it opens up into the Southern Celebes Sea. So I made haste for that position and believe that I got there ahead of them due to Japanese air cover direction of travel seeming not to be from the direction of any airfield in range. Saved and ended session there as I lay in wait hoping for a third contact with the same Task Force. This kind of running gunfight is new to me in SH4 and frankly a lot of fun. I guess it goes without saying that the full videos of my recent streams are available in the video section of my twitch profile page. Although there may be muted sections due to twitch AI making a copyright violation decision about music played on stream. Last night's stream was actually broken into two video segments however due to some disruption in my internet connection.