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Originally Posted by Armistead
Another thing I noticed about his convoys you usually get flash messages for them, course that takes being in the right place so you have a chance. He doe's have close to 100 convoys tied to flashes.
Most convoys in 44/45 run the shipping lane from Singapore to Hong Kong through Formosa to Shanghai. You'll find this lane so busy it ain't funny. These are the best in the game, most have a ASW light carrier and have planes patrolling the lane. Most have 6 plus Type AB's as escorts.
Sometime late 44 I think you get the flash message ships are running the coastline...and do they.
What would be helpful is more random generated traffic that loops, so the direction changes, best tool in the game. I wouldn't even mind if more of the TF looped.
The year I never see much convoys is 43, course I never go looking as I stay in the Truk to Home Waters shipping lane.
What we need is to rid many of the singles except for late war or simply add a few more merchants and build a few escorts. Japan did have a lot of single merchant traffic in locations, like all around Japan, China coast, yellow sea, ect., but the areas had lot's of smaller escorts patrolling, so more sub patrols is needed in these areas.
I hate unescorted singles over and over. Right now I am getting bored with it, probably more being flat on my back playing the hell out of it, guess it was more fun playing a few times a week. Just need more difficulty, but in a different way. Duc had many of his convoys going faster with more zig pattern. I've yet to run into a capital TF that I couldn't catch, should be rare to catch one.
Some of the speed between waypoints needs to be adjusted so at least in the campaign area they hit speeds faster than a sub.
Course we have to keep in mind most subs sank a few ships per patrol if that, so not sure lack of traffic is the issue. Right now playing cams off, contacts on, 90%.....cant stand not having stable binocs, the setting is unreal movement.
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Strange, because I see the convoy speeds change often in RSRD, Ill track a convoy at 11 knots, then itll drop to 9, then up to 10, makes tracking interesting.
Unescorted singles need to be eliminated starting April 44 and fully by July 1944, except for small fries like the Taihosan when on local transits.
In early war say 41 and to late 42 singles or two merchants unescorted were common, even on long trips although I think if ships made a long run from Japan to Singapore for instance, they would have an escort.
43 on should see less singles but still some.For instance Wahoo sank an unescorted convoy off New Guinea in January 1943.
Overall, the singles need to be reduced.Also the ones that have hydrophones later on need their radius reduced, rather far fetched that you cant get under 2,000 yards from a lone freighter while running at two knots before they start zig zagging.
Overall the convoys in RSRD are fine with me, they run their historic routes mostly.The thing that bothers me is certain areas really lack convoys where they had them.Places like Convoy College, Gulf of Siam, Yellow Sea(mostly) Sea of Japan(for later years) Marshall Islands should have a few convoys coming and going.
I plan to make some changes when I have time, been a busy week havent even really had a chance to play my currentl patrol.
hows Truk coming along?