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Originally Posted by WernherVonTrapp
Actually, it wasn't until the battle for Midway that we had any kind of grasp over the Japanese code, thanks exclusively to Commander Joseph Rochefort, whom Nimitz decided to keep on active duty after the post Pearl Harbor naval purge. Still, shortly after Midway ( I don't recall the exact timeframe), Yamamoto suspected that the IJN code may have been compromised and subsequently changed the code ( according to some accounts, others say the code change was a matter of protocol/course).
As far as the fleetboats were concerned, I have read accounts that say the early war intelligence was often incorrect or unreliable. Now this is probably not even taken into account in the Stock version and I'm not sure if the mods address this, but the unreliability of these reports was cause enough for me to ignore most of the "contact reports" unless I already knew it was trustworthy.  |
If you get a contact in game it's realiable, anytime a group is built in the ME you can choose if the contact will show or not, stock shows many, RSRD less, but you get more later on. Still, subs were given lot's of contacts on groups once we got the code down, I often wonder if RSRD should have more, because over all you don't get many of them.