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Originally Posted by propbeanie
There is an RGG that calls a GENERIC merchant at the Mariveles dock that sits on a 138.65 heading, that if a storm came up, could "blow" out that far on a drift over time. I have looked at the Fast Hansa, and all looks well on it configuration, and in a mission, it does fine. There are at least 8 RGG that proceed between Mariveles and Corregidor, but mostly outbounds, and there is other traffic that travels through there on patrol, so it might have been a near-miss collision, but I cannot find any other reason as of yet, for it to be standing still. Some groups do come into the area and seemingly "pause" with very low speeds, and then leave, could it maybe have been doing that? Those instances are few and far between at Manila though, due to the traffic density in the small area...  |
The contact was a single ship, speed zero, and listed as "stationary" IIRC. There was a single sonar return from Mariveles, a warship never spotted, plus two fast-moving tugs in the area acting like ASW patrols. The assignment to sink anything was just off Manila; this was an almost immediate first contact, so time in that zone was minimal.
HTH.
FWIW, my impression is that the .50 caliber (12.7 mm) MG, a weapon I had not utilized previously, is more powerful in the game than the 20 mm and twin 20 mm weapons upgrades, at least in terms of time required to sink boats.
Also, is there an option to have nearby TF reports drop us out of warp, um...high-speed TC? In contrast, we had a report of a historical sinking drop us out of 4096 TC while running up the Australian coast; would be nice to have it for something useful instead.