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Originally Posted by BillBam
Radar (if installed) only works when surfaced, most times you will not have radar early or only the type that detects air contacts and not surface contacts. If you don't have surface contact radar your best method of detecting ships is visual contact which means you need to be surface for best range. Sonar only works when submerged and can have a fairly short range, especially in early war period.
I would not patrol at too high of a TC, I generally keep it to 256 or 512 TC and try to patrol areas called "choke points", this is the narrow straights that traffic is forced to use to move from area to area. Much harder to find the needle in the hay stack in open waters.
RSRD modifies the stock campaign layers to make convoy and task force movement historically correct, it even recreates historical sea battles. In the stock game you will get way more convoys but they are not historically correct and don't make sense sometimes.
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So how does RSRDC run with the stock games campaigns missions then? As I've just been assigned to patrol the eastern part of the south china sea but if RSRDC changes it so that the convoys are historically correct then has the objectives/missions been changed to compensate for this? After all, I dont want to be told to patrol somewhere and not encounter any ships because its not historically correct.
Also, I started my campaign at the earliest possible date (8th December 1941) , so im assuming that I wont have surface radar or anything of the like?
Thanks for all your help guys, im really really starting to enjoy this
EDIT: Also, could someone direct me to where I could maybe get information on historic patrol routes? thanks
