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Originally Posted by Salvadoreno
Since i have decided to command a type IX i have a few questions.. ON transit, say to Americas, Carribean, and Africa how many SINGLE merchants do u encounter?? Lets say throughout a WHOLE PATROL... How many days is it usually, and how many merchants do u encounter intotal.. I would hate to travel to america and see NOTHING... ugh.. DO u ever use milkcows?
What has been your best patrol??
I like to start in 1940-1941 mid year. Cuzz usually i can gradually see the demise of the uboats, and actually play it!
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On transit:
Depends on where your going. If your going to the caribean or US east coast, once you clear the area directly west of spain and pass through the azores, typyically i dont enounter anything until i get to where im going.
If your going to say, africa, freetown or whatever, your chances of encountering single merchants enroute to your patrol area are a bit higher.
Now, how many single merchants you encounter altogether depends on what RND mod your running. Improved Convoys would be my guess. Frankly I think this mod overkills single merchant traffic reduction at early 44 and onwards i think, you'll see it taper out mid43. Thats not to say theres no traffic, but the reduction is quite marked late war, and i found it unfun.
Reason why i think its overkill is because single merchant groups have a low percentile chance to spawn (15%), and the 1 ship in that group consists of in many cases has a 0% chance to spawn. Personnaly i edited IC so that single merchents have a 100% chance to spawn in a group that has a 15% chance to spawn, if that makes any sense. Ive done this for the caribean, black sea, north atlantic, indian ocian, etc etc. Personnaly i consider it a fix, but its not my mod really, hence i havent zipped it up and released it.
Now ALL that said, if you want tonnage (moded IC or not), theres a nice little area in the carribean known to some as "tanker alley"
(oh and if your running HT, lets not forget about shooting fish in a barrel in that ridiclously deepwater port of curraco, and while i havent gone to port of spain because its shallow, i hear its good pickings there.)
As for best patrol, ironically, my first was my best. This was an 88 day patrol. On the average my patrols are 65 days, but they often get as high as 80-90 days.
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05 Jan 1942
2252 Patrol 1
U-189, 2nd Flotilla
Left at: January 5, 1942, 22:52
From: Lorient
Mission Orders: Patrol grid CA28
29 Jan 1942
0941 CA 28 Ship sunk! Small Tanker, 4316 tons
02 Feb 1942
1854 DC 12 Ship sunk! Small Tanker, 4317 tons
1859 DC 12 Ship sunk! T3 Tanker, 11672 tons
07 Feb 1942
1055 DB 98 Ship sunk! Small Tanker, 4318 tons
08 Feb 1942
1728 DB 98 Ship sunk! Trawler, 99 tons
10 Feb 1942
0921 DB 98 Ship sunk! C2 Cargo, 6423 tons
11 Feb 1942
0427 DB 98 Ship sunk! T3 Tanker, 11674 tons
12 Feb 1942
0409 DB 98 Ship sunk! Small Tanker, 6166 tons
13 Feb 1942
0135 DB 98 Ship sunk! T2 Tanker, 6340 tons
06 Mar 1942
0605 DM 53 Ship sunk! Small Merchant, 3960 tons
0606 DM 53 Ship sunk! Coastal Merchant, 2246 tons
08 Mar 1942
1422 DN 47 Ship sunk! T2 Tanker, 6341 tons
1424 DN 47 Ship sunk! T2 Tanker, 6342 tons
09 Mar 1942
0344 DN 47 Ship sunk! Small Merchant, 3961 tons
02 Apr 1942
2250 Patrol results
Crew losses: 0
Ships sunk: 14
Aircraft destroyed: 0
Patrol tonage: 78175 tons
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