[REL] Run Silent, Run Deep - The Campaign

[panthercules]

Originally Posted by Riggsie15

I love this mod! My first boat was a S-class out of Manila, and well in 3 patrols I only saw 1 convoy; the realism, in the vanila game you would run into a convoy or ship every two hours. Needless to say with only 1 merchantmen of 4000 so tons, I was dismissed for not being agressive enough. That's alright for my next boat was USS Pike out of Pearl, and on my first patrol 14000 tons, 1 single ship sighting and 1 convoy sighting. This mod with RFB is a winning combo just want to know when the next 2 phases are coming out.

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