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Originally Posted by ICBM
See my SIG.  I encountered (in sight) 2 taskforces in all my SH3 platime, one being a Battleship fleet (where I sunk a Revenge BB, see SIG) and another one, a small Carrier + escorts.
I knew the seccond one was a Carrier because I got atacked by swordfishes, and very soon after that Mr. DD and frends, ending my career rarther violently..  |
Yes, that was an escort carrier and a HK group. You're supposed to die. In regular SH3 they're elite, so you're nearly guaranteed to die every time. In RuB they've been toned down to veteran.
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Originally Posted by ICBM
Mid sea encounters are Very rare, another reason for me to keep playing SH3, I need at least one carrier kill before I even think of abandoning the game. 
I suggest patrollign around the Gibraltar Strait, quite a few Taskforce reports there.. |
Yes, that is the best choke point for TFs because they're always on the same course west of Gibraltar, so they're easy to intercept via hydrophones if you listen for hours underwater everytime your battery is charged.
When I hunt TFs, I generally find one west of Gibraltar every two weeks or less.
There are a few other choke points for TFs, but they generally have so much merchant traffic in '39-40 that it's painful to hunt. You get interrupted by single merchants at least once an hour, or several times a day in '39-'40 if you're using RuB. So, I tend to very much prefer hitting them in Gibraltar.
I've toyed with the idea of changing the TF experience with IC, but I haven't decided what a more realistic TF encounter should be. I'd think more fleet destroyers, definitely a few flak artillery light cruisers, and fewer battleships. While I wouldn't mind introducing a carrier taskforce to replace TF03, which is a carrier and battleship mixed force, I don't believe the concept of the carrier taskforce actually existed in WWII so it would probably be unrealistic. Still, it might be _fun_ to include one with a CV, several light cruisers, and a fleet destroyer screen.
Maybe I'll do that today...
