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Sniper297 · 02-03-13, 02:37 PM

Not sure if this is good or bad. The original idea was to start a career with a scramble to meet an attack, after that the career would proceed as normal. Started a new one, defeated the enemy losing only two of the six US ships, headed out to complete the mission and ran into the usual Lingayen task force. Sargo class, so started with 22 torpedoes, expended about 12 on the Battle of Manila Bay so I had about 10 left. Sank a couple cruisers and a bunch of destroyers, 2 or 3 transports, then ran into another task force with 2 Kongos and some heavy cruisers. Sank one Kongo, disabled the second, waited for the escorts to give up and go away. Surfaced on the high side so the Kongo couldn't bring any guns to bear, and after expending all the ammo for the deck gun he was still afloat so I gave up and beat feet to the new Luzon Straits base to resupply. Ran into another Lingwayen invasion force, the kind that sort of drifts around occasionally running in circles, expended all torpedoes on that, then headed back to Manila arriving on the 14th. Started the second war patrol and discovered the original scenario repeats - apparently the way I set it up, it's geared to the start of any patrol.

So I'll fight that one out, IIRC Manila falls after Christmas and home port shifts to Java, so even if it repeats on the third patrol it won't affect anything since the player will never see it. Unless he gets that mission to drop off spies in Manila Bay, in which case he'll see the dismal aftermath.

02-03-13, 02:37 PM	#20
Sniper297 The Old Man Join Date: Dec 2005 Location: Philadelphia Shipyard Brig Posts: 1,386 Downloads: 160 Uploads: 19	After further review... Not sure if this is good or bad. The original idea was to start a career with a scramble to meet an attack, after that the career would proceed as normal. Started a new one, defeated the enemy losing only two of the six US ships, headed out to complete the mission and ran into the usual Lingayen task force. Sargo class, so started with 22 torpedoes, expended about 12 on the Battle of Manila Bay so I had about 10 left. Sank a couple cruisers and a bunch of destroyers, 2 or 3 transports, then ran into another task force with 2 Kongos and some heavy cruisers. Sank one Kongo, disabled the second, waited for the escorts to give up and go away. Surfaced on the high side so the Kongo couldn't bring any guns to bear, and after expending all the ammo for the deck gun he was still afloat so I gave up and beat feet to the new Luzon Straits base to resupply. Ran into another Lingwayen invasion force, the kind that sort of drifts around occasionally running in circles, expended all torpedoes on that, then headed back to Manila arriving on the 14th. Started the second war patrol and discovered the original scenario repeats - apparently the way I set it up, it's geared to the start of any patrol. So I'll fight that one out, IIRC Manila falls after Christmas and home port shifts to Java, so even if it repeats on the third patrol it won't affect anything since the player will never see it. Unless he gets that mission to drop off spies in Manila Bay, in which case he'll see the dismal aftermath.