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Originally Posted by K-61
I can't recall meeting the same ship again later on, as I use SH3 Commander's realistic career length option. However, I have read accounts from other players who sunk a major ship and then saw it later in the war. Call it anecdotal evidence unless we hear from an authority figure like a GWX mod designer.
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As incredible and urban legendish as it sounds, I was able to sink the Hood 4 times in a single patrol; albeit this was in GWX 2.1 and I'm almost 100% positive the bug/situation that I ran into can't repeat itself again.
First day of the war ran at flank to Portsmouth where the Hood (actually) was anchored and nailed it in the first few hours of war being declared. Went up to Liverpool and saw something that just was too good to be true, there were 2 Hood's in the port. Finally went into Scapa and sunk the 4th one there and the floating dock and ended up with almost 250,000 tons on the first patrol. The whole patrol took less than a week. Since this was all in first few days of war there weren't many nasty subnets in place yet or many DD's patrolling ports. Have since seen multiple warships in a taskforce (like 2 George V's, Rodney and a slew of escorts) but never again 2 of the same ships double parked.
Whether it be harbor raiding or at sea, capital ships will always be where they were at their historical points in time (i.e. the Royal Oak will be in Scapa, though you'll find Scapa almost full if you go a few days before - something that the British got really lucky on. The home fleet sailed out of Scapa 2 days before Prien got there; had they waited a few more days to leave Scapa could've looked like Pearl Harbor when Prien left) whether it is in a port, a task force or engaged in a battle.
Once the Med bases open its relatively easy to find task forces/captial ships if that's what you're after. Based in La Spezia you can rack up enormous merchant shipping, from Salamis you're constantly running into them (imo) whether that's you're objective or not. Always plenty of big ships going between Alexandria and Gibraltor/Italy.