Hard to believe that most traffic was unescorted, esp given what happened on east coast of US in 1942 with German U Boats.Even if it bends history a little, makes for a much more interesting game when some of the singles have an escort of some type.Esp important ships like tankers or large freighters.
[quote=Shinbou Hakugei;1226480]By the way - I have question about US merchant shipping at Pacific. I cannot find sources about US convoy system at Pacific. It seems, all merchant traffic between West Coast and Hawaii, between Panama and Fiji, between Fiji and Australia, etc was absolutely unprotected. Only traffic between main bases and battle areas, made by NAVY freighters (AKA, AE, AO ships, etc), was protected by destroyer escorts.
Here is a pre-war maps, which will help (I hope) to create merchant traffic layers for Japanese campaign.
