Hello feld!
Thank you for your reply!
I left my question here because even I have read more than just one naval book in my life, I have never seen told, how "wide" those "routes" are. Maybe it's just so "common thing" to a sailor, that "a U-boat captain writing his memoires" just forget tell his reader a shipping route is a bit wider than a highway.
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I'd guess that merchant ships have a planned route on file with the shipping company that owns them though.
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Yep, I think so too.
Your idea about a hijacked vessel is interesting. However, I have build up just a basic ASW MP-mission where the overall situation reminds alot the situation in Jan. 1942 in the east coast of USA... (alot of coastal traffic running without any escort, just local ASW + small convoys, etc.) Then, when I was building in the merchants, I started thinking once again those routes...
Tomorrow is the big day, I'll test the mission with a friend. Have to hope a Perry-class frigate and one Orion will be enough for the bad quys...
-RC-