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Old 08-10-12, 08:07 AM   #1
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Since RSRD portrays actual events where can I go, on the net, to get the events, dates and times that took place? Would like to be where the action is instead of ramming fishing boats (which I have to admit is a great stress reliever). I'm glad I outfitted the sub with the new indestruct -o- props.
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Old 08-10-12, 11:44 AM   #2
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Here is a good place http://www.worldwar-2.net/ Click on the tab timelines then select the Pacific for the year you want to know about. It is broken down by year, month, and day.

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Old 08-10-12, 07:00 PM   #3
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Here is a good place http://www.worldwar-2.net/ Click on the tab timelines then select the Pacific for the year you want to know about. It is broken down by year, month, and day.

Cool, I'll speak for everyone and thanks for sharing a great and useful site.
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Old 08-15-12, 08:36 PM   #4
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I have often got a lot of information from Wiki including maps etc by searching on a particular battle as well.
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Old 08-16-12, 02:40 PM   #5
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I have often got a lot of information from Wiki including maps etc by searching on a particular battle as well.
wiki is about as reliable as gossip you here from women but it can be helpfull to give you the info to google reliable data
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Old 08-16-12, 04:16 PM   #6
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Now that you mention it... I think it would be a good idea, if the developers of RSRD, who claims to put an emphatis on historical correctness, would also provide us with a list of historical dates and coordinates.
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Old 08-16-12, 04:55 PM   #7
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I think it would be a good idea, if the developers of RSRD, who claims to put an emphatis on historical correctness.
The "developers" would be one man, lurker_hlb3, and he hasn't posted in these forums in more than a year, or in the RSRD thread in more than two years. Don't expect much action there.
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Old 08-16-12, 09:08 PM   #8
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wiki is about as reliable as gossip you here from women but it can be helpfull to give you the info to google reliable data
(Love the analogy) You are right to some extent - it does give a pretty good overview for quick reference however - some articles are certainly more accurate than others.

For example I didn't know until recently (one of the US Generals was in Australia and gave a news conference) that Australia had troops on the ground at Guadalcanal. I checked the Wiki page and there it was.
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Old 08-17-12, 12:59 AM   #9
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Now that you mention it... I think it would be a good idea, if the developers of RSRD, who claims to put an emphatis on historical correctness, would also provide us with a list of historical dates and coordinates.
Let's see a convoy leaves point A, travels 800nm's to point B, resulting in 1000's of dates and coordinates, you really expect him to list them all. However, if you will look in the RSRD support folder, he does list his references for convoys. Not to mention, you can always open the ME and get all the info you want. The goal was historical, not to give so much info that the game has no randomness at all.
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try this link, it was in old Ubi forum, under captgeo submarine site's,

http://www.navsource.org/archives/subidx.htm



this link has patrol logs of SS's
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Old 08-25-12, 02:30 PM   #11
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May as well re-use this thread as I have another RSRDC question:

How much does RSRDC affect the 'difficulty' of Merchies & Warships? I ask as I'm using TMO and came across a TF with a Carrier or two - nailed one Carrier (just), had em pop a few shots at the 'scope as I tried to bring the bow tubes to bear.

After that I Flank-speeded down to about 450ft, went silent & changed course, then braced for a hammering. In TMO I'd be lucky to get away at all, but I've run the interception twice now (handy save) and they've not dropped a depth charge once on either occasion. They ping a little, zoom around above for maybe five-ten minutes, and then head off again!

Now I know RSRDC reduces TMO difficulty a little, and I know Jap ASW was bad until late-war, but this is late '43... Is this the norm for RSRDC? I don't see warships often and this is my first 'whole of war' career in RSRDC, so I'm more used to TMO difficulty. Any thoughts chaps?
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Old 08-26-12, 01:26 PM   #12
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Any thoughts, anyone?
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Old 08-26-12, 04:45 PM   #13
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RSRD overwrites the crew ratings because it is a totally new campaign. TMO uses more veteran crew ratings than RSRD. You can go into RSRD campaign files and use notepad to edit them, easy, just time consuming.

There is also a mod called "TMO visuals for RSRD" that adjust the escorts sensors back to TMO settings.

You will run into more vet status escorts 43 and 44.
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RSRD overwrites the crew ratings because it is a totally new campaign. TMO uses more veteran crew ratings than RSRD. You can go into RSRD campaign files and use notepad to edit them, easy, just time consuming.

There is also a mod called "TMO visuals for RSRD" that adjust the escorts sensors back to TMO settings.

You will run into more vet status escorts 43 and 44.
Yeah, I was just surprised by how much difference there is in difficulty, and started wondering if I hadn't made a mess of the mod setup or something - slinking so easily away from a full Mid-'43 task force with a good five or six Destroyers in tow seems far too easy.

I'll have a look at that TMO visuals mod, cheers for that. It may be that I can manually set a middle ground between the two.

EDIT: Seems I won't, as I can't find it in the Subsim downloads section, or by Googling. Anyone have a link?
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Old 08-26-12, 06:39 PM   #15
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Something you might try as an experiment would be to install only the campaign files from RSRD, and leave out the others.
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