Almost every major engagement subs were sent to close positions and that's what RSRD does....even stock does it, just poorly. The stock reports while you dock telling you what's going on gives you tons of info. With RSRD convoys aren't going to spawn on you every 30 minutes game time
Stock has most of the same battles, just poorly done. No doubt you play stock, RSRD or any campaign mod, you know where to sit you can find things. I always sit in the San Bern Straits for the battle of Leyte to duke it out with the center force. I get bored chasing the stock simple convoys, packed close together, dodge some dd's for a few ship kills when I can do running battles over 500 miles with large TF's or Convoys.
However, Midway, Battle of Philippines, Santa Cruz, Leyte, ect...we basically knew where they were going.
TMO 1.9 reworked layers more like RSRD, except you'll find more convoys. Stock will always spawn convoys near you within certain limits regardless of how real it is. RSRD can get boring as you can go for weeks without a ship, but usually you run into a convoy...it's a big um, well protected.
Like the last major battle I did. I got a contact report, went flank to get there. I was out of position when sonar got it, but tracked for a day to attack. I then chased it for two days in and out of storms almost to Tokyo..
One thing I've done as I did get bored knowing where battles were is to try to attack a different path not where the actual battle is.
Still for most they can't resist getting involved in a large historical battle, most prefer that than chasing the same type convoys over and over.
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