Yea, those coastal vessels are fun and tough. Not sure how many they carry, but enough to fill a large DD. Get three on you, pray you have decoys and deep water. They blew me to pieces...And I do use saves, just port saves. Went right back to Formosa and got killed again going after the same convoy in shallow water. Played the entire career to early 45 and never died and died 5 times in a row chasing TF and convoys in shallow water in Formosa.
I've been hit with charges from them at 500 ft. Am running some tweaked mods to make the AI a tad harder, but haven't touched the planes. They can see a tad deeper with the env mods, but not sure if it really effects how deep they drop. I've been damaged with just TMO at 200 ft.
Overall planes are easy, but visit Formosa early 45....Those Coastal vessels and planes work well together and you should get one patrol in shallow water. I planned to be safe the second time and went in during a storm and got popped. They attack at night, storms, doesn't matter. One thing I like about Formosa in 45 there are planes alway near the convoys...very realistic and the pilots are elite. Seldom see that. Also a good time to get a late war Ise as they make their final trip from Singy to Japan.
TMO
RSRD
Row Sound 9...love it.
Real Env, textured warships, ect.
Extra jap ships.
Sky Env.
Longer ship wake...great little mod.
and some others that don't mess with env. Finally found the set of mods I like that don't turn the game into fubar and get beautiful effects like this.
