Sh4 with tmo and rsrdc couple questions

[midnightrider1818]

I'm a newbie with these mods. Mostly played in vanilla form. Got a couple questions. I started off Dec 7 1941 first patrol. Only seen one merchant off Tokyo Bay. Is this normal. Does it pick up as the war progresses. Another question is is there a pull down map for convoys like in sh3gwx. One more question is where is the recognition manual. Playing with auto targeting but I can't seem to find it. Thanks guys

[midnightrider1818]

Update I found the manual and went to 1943 got sent to the Marshall's but still found no traffic. Went to the Japanese coast and found one dd but that was all the traffic I could find. My soup is tmo with rsrdc and the patch that's it. This may be normal with tmo and rsrdc. Any input greatly appreciated

[Rockin Robbins]

Early war consisted of the brass sending submarines where they thought the Japanese would be and being wrong. Lots of subs came back empty-handed. Which was good.

The unlucky ones found targets, shot off their torpedoes and watched them pass harmlessly under their targets. Or they hit the target with a thunk but didn't explode.

Early war was hell. Then the brass blamed it on the sub commanders, saying they weren't aggressive enough. More than half of them lost their commands for reasons having nothing to do with their competence.

Then Lockwood's personal favorite skipper, Mush Morton came charging back to Pearl saying things we can't say here about his lousy load of torpedoes. He even saved half of them for inspection.

Finally the brass listened. Finally the brass tested. Finally solutions were found to some of the problems, which unmasked underlying problems. It was a mess.