Task force question

[Renesisfury]

Is it normal for all the task forces that I have intercepted to be a old liner and a new liner? I don't see any with any other warships other than the escorting cans.

[mookiemookie]

Sounds like you're running into invasion forces. You're probably in the early war.

I can attest to the fact that you'll find many types of task forces as time goes by.

[seafarer]

If you start a career in 1941 out of Manila, just hang around the NW coast of the Island on your first patrol, and you'll almost surely run into a nice big task force - BB's, CA's, the works :D

1942 is also a busy year for the IJN's carriers and major combatants, down around Borneo and Celebes, Java.

[Renesisfury]

Is it normal to run into unescorted invasion forces too?

[-Pv-]

Unescorted convoys of all types is not unusual. This is also consistant with history.
-Pv-

[tater]

In the game, ANY group which is lead by a warship shows up as a "task force."

So a troop transport, just running troops might be a TF if the lead ship is set to be one of the escorting DDs instead of the liner.