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Originally Posted by HMCS (Post 1230586)

You will notice on some orders "If IJN forces are detected outside this area, feel free to smoke their a**es", something to that effect. Not verbatim.

:har:

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Originally Posted by jerm138 (Post 1230588)

During a patrol, do you frequently dive to increase the possibility of picking something up on sonar?

If so, how often and how deep?

Go to your sonar station even on the surface it's really easy to use especially with the green light, I check about every 20 to 30 min. game time. as mentioned Sonar guy has a Q-tip stuck in his ear.

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Originally Posted by jerm138 (Post 1230588)

During a patrol, do you frequently dive to increase the possibility of picking something up on sonar?

If so, how often and how deep?

Periscope depth will do. When in high-traffic areas, I dive every six hours or so. If tracking a convoy, every few minutes 'till I get visual.

It's a bit of a cheat, but until you have radar mounted and a couple of patrols with radar under your belt (SJ Radar) keep an eye on your TC. If you see it lag, chances are excellent that you will pick up a sonar contact.

Once you get SJ-1 radar with a good crew, it's all gravy, baby.

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Originally Posted by jerm138 (Post 1230561)

Well... somebody has to go do wake-ups and get coffee for the COW. :haha:

(anyone who is reading this and isn't a submariner... don't worry... we're not fighting. This is how we greet each other. Especially nukes and cones)

Ha! I always did like Electricians. Except for that time they shifted the bus from one TG to the other. Fried my laptop on the 3rd day of patrol.:damn: Anyways, what's the flick after watch?

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what's the flick after watch?

Either the Matrix, or Cruel Intentions.

Those two movies got burned nearly every night on Westpac '99. I was cranking too, so I had them practically memorized. I was so sick of those flicks. I haven't watched either one since then for fear of having a flashback.

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Originally Posted by HMCS (Post 1230579)

If you run RSRD, you will eventually figure it out.

Bungo Suido is a target-rich area through much of the war. Lots of roving ASW patrols, though.

I have racked up some pretty impressive kills in the following areas:

NW of Truk: late '42, '43 and early '44
E. China Sea: 42, 43 and '44
Luzon Straits 42, 43 and '44
Makassar Straits '43 and '44
That stretch of water between Mindanao and Peleliu is crawling with tankers in '43 and early-mid '44.

The SoJ isn't too bad, as long as you can penetrate La Perouse Str. Lots of stuff heading toward that stretch of water from the W.

Try heading for the SLOT during the Guadalcanal campaign and try your hand at picking off the Jap. tincans wizzing by. VERY challenging, but fun. I find killing DD's to be almost as thrilling as killing big capital ships (almost) 'cause it can be so damned difficult. Personally, I think the renown points for DD's should be double what it is currently.

I've been on a couple of patrols in the SLOT (using the accursed S-18, I'm seriously thinking of starting over), and have had zero luck getting any tincans. These things whiz by at around 30 knots (!), the 'slowest' I've ever seen is 15, and the S-18, at flank speed, can do 10, and that's surfaced. Unless you're very lucky and they walk right into you, my experience has been (a) sight DDs, (b) wave haplessly at them as I have no prayer of intercepting them.:damn:

any tips?

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Originally Posted by HMCS (Post 1230579)

The SoJ isn't too bad, as long as you can penetrate La Perouse Str.

La Perouse is so full that you can be choosy about what you kill. If you get a contact with a 2500 ton ship, just let her slip by and the next one might be a tanker. I was only lucky enough to pull 1 patrol in those waters, but what a patrol it was!

That's were I am right now, Nov. 43.
Just got there through the strait and am working my way south west down the Home Islands. We'll see how it works out.

Magic

I went through there without a contact, busted 3 freighters in Sea of Japan then was recalled by HQ back through the straights to patrol east side of Honshu down to Tokyo Bay. Used all but 3 of my fish coming back through the straights.

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Originally Posted by badger_ken (Post 1231599)

The Tokyo Express (RSRD) is a freak show. You have to pretty much guess where they are going to be, guesstimate their course, and plop down somewhere perpendicular, or on, say a 45 deg. to where you think that their probable course is. Keep your TC low so you have time to react, and give them at least a 20 deg. lead angle before you shoot because they are going between 30 and 35 kts. Try to get close (under 2000 yds), but keep in mind that if the weather is calm their chance of killing you is good to excellent.

I have had some luck in the choke point in between Tulagi and Savo Island. Try that; less margin for error.