[/quote]I love it too, although I've had a very opposite experience so far regarding ship traffic. I'm just returning to Java from my first patrol out of Manila, and I must have seen at least 5 or 6 convoys already (sank 2 tankers and a small liner/troop transport out of the first 3 convoy's I found, but with all the duds and prematures that took all my torps and I've had to dodge the last 2 or 3 convoys after reporting them by radio) as well as 3 solo freighters (sank 2 with my 4"/50 deck gun - the last one was a big one that survived my remaining shells and escaped from me).
I'm returning home with about 35,000 tons, which seems a bit extreme and I'm assuming that it won't continue like this. But the convoys I did see were well constituted and escorted (they were really troop transport task forces more than merchant convoys, which makes more sense for these first few weeks after the war begins) and the escort behavior was impressive when I challenged them for some testing purposes. I've spent a lot more time screwing around testing things than actually playing, so this was the first real patrol I've run in a long time, and the RFB/NSM/ROW/RSRD combination is looking pretty good at this point
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I think the combination ROW+TM+RSRD is awesome! Thanks a lot to all modders!
SH4 with these modds is another game, a real sub simulation...
About the ship traffic I can say that I found few ships during my first patrol because I was in the wrong place... far away from the trade route. In my second patrol, I found it and I sunk 9 freighters and tankers for 43'072 tons! But when I spotted a convoy, even a small, attack it was very hard because DD's escort. Have been twice hardly depth-charging during hours...
The game is becoming very-very interesting...