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Originally Posted by Morpheus
Well, i didn't see one single mark on the map within over one month of gameplay...
... does that sound unusual?
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Not necessarily.
I just finished a patrol in a Porpoise in early '42 and spent some time doing barrier patrols (basically defensive) near Java. I ran into several CLs and escorts initially, but went over a month with no contacts afterwards.
I set course towards the northern tip of Borneo so I could come back down through the Celebes and the Makassar Strait enroute to my last patrol objective. The only contacts I ran into turned out to be friendlies. It was till I got further south that I started to run into enemy shipping. I spent all of Feb with nothing to shoot at.
The irony was near the map point Flag (just south of it) and encountering a massive IJN task force. Heavy rain. Heavy fog. No torpedos (I bet they'd have been duds anyway!) At least 2-3 BBs, 4 CLs and 4 CAs heading west toward Java. Never seen IJN forces that far south near Australia before. A few days just shy of April 1st (March 29th to be exact.)