Fourth TMO 1.7 patrol for USS Seawolf, was sent to the Japan-Rabaul shipping lanes where in five days on station sank seven unescorted merchants for 42,000 tons in eight seperate attacks. Bagged three of them in one busy afternoon so the merchants are certainly out there.
Patrol five (now September 1942) on the Rabaul-Bouganville lanes is not going so well; lots of warship groups but have been unable to achieve many intercepts due to target speed and relative positions when first contacted. Those attacks I have made have been entirely unsuccessful for a variety of reasons and just had four Mk14's pass under a Naka CL without detonating. No merchants have showed up either and the warship groups are consistant in composition and courses to Tokyo Express task forces.
All in all this latest patrol is replicating all sorts of frustrating things that would likely have been common during the campaign. Well Done Modders.
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