OK Mios 4Me... we have "fixed" the issue:
twelve torpedoes later, down she goes... of course, this "fix" is only on my computer. I also "fixed" the CVE Taiyo in a similar manner, only it only took four torps... One dud for each set of shots, and I am about out of fish... time to head for the barn, and break out the ole editing laptop... s7rikeback and myself have been looking through the files, and I am now thinking that I have to look for a group that travels ~
TO~ Truk, and that is supposed to terminate, but that doesn't... however, we still haven't found the culprit... btw, this "un-terminated" group could cause a CTD if you are in closer, and it spawns (I should say "renders") inside of the "terrain"...
As for Lamon Bay, Aparri and back to Lamon Bay for MM... I got sunk again, this time when a Mavis that had been doing parallel lines search pattern in my area, rather predictably, allowing me to crash dive and pop back up within about a five minute window, all of a sudden came at me 90° contrary to what his last line had been, came out of the sun, and drop a round of bombs on me. Not just one, but about 3 or 4 hits... sank faster than a stone... sigh... Maybe the fourth time will be a charm... We have found a couple of issues with the mission, as mentioned previously...
Edit: We think we have ID'd the bad boys, but we are not 100% certain of that, because it is an anchored grouping of five ships, including the Yamato, the Kasuga Maru, of which the Taiyo stands in for, the Akebono, Sazanami and Ushio, all three Fubuki Class DD. All five are "parked" south of Dublon docks, facing on approximately a 70° heading, but are set to "DockedShip=true", with a "Speed=0.000000". How they are getting to be roughly 30km from where they are supposed to be, I don't know. We'll have to look into the southwest side also apparently... perhaps it's the same thing, because there are ships that are supposed to be anchored in the little harbor between all the islands there.