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Originally Posted by Crannogman
I understand your characterization, but cannot agree with the idea that it detracts from the game. The war was fought (and is simulated) by a very well-defined and limiting geography. Japanese had to where it did because that's where the stuff was. Maximum routing efficiency was required because their merchant marine was stretched to and beyond the breaking point. A decent captain should be able to look at the extent of the Japanese Empire and make a solid bet on where to look for enemy traffic.
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If you read, for example, "Clear the Bridge", by Dick O'Kane aboard USS Tang, you will see how imprevisible (and foolish) were the routes used by the Japanase Merchant Marine. There are memorable chapters were Ultra messages sent to Tang indicates some traffic routes between logical ports for commercial traffic and the submarine didnīt find nothing, except out the informed routes and making crazy manouvers between anothers ports.
But we can live with that. The most previsible traffic in RSRDC are the IJN routes. In war you have limited information about the mouvements of mans of war. You canīt know where is a carrier in the Leyte Gulf Battle, but playing the same battle in two or three campaigns, you know where to search warships in a determined historical battle, but...in your sub nothing is "historic", you are one of the guys making that history. RSRDC has heavily scripted layers for battles. Lurker leaves some random possitions for not-so-easy-to-localize warships, but the layers are so firmly implanted, so Lurker himself adverts in the readme "do not edit with Mission Editor the campaign" because you can destroy all the work.
I played RSRDC for years and it is a great mod, only I say for an oldie subsims player as me, the mod becomes very previsible and now I prefer a more random campaign, for example Spyron (a great and underrated campaign) or TMO or FOTRS "vanilla" campaigns, no so "historical" (I make the history).
Best regards!
Fitzcarraldo
