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Originally Posted by JapLance
In today's session I've found a strange-acting Japanese task force.
It's Dec 23rd, 1941 and I've been sent to the Davao Gulf area in my S-boat. The task force consisted of 2x Chitose Seaplane tenders, one Okinoshima minelayer with 2x Kageros as escort, and apparently it was sailing to the NE. The main ships were sailing erratically at just 1 or 2 knots and apparently not in formation and very scattered, while the Kageros were trying to run circles around them (this is the normal escort behaviour, I guess).
Since they were sailing so slow I could plot an attack, and I launched my last four torpedoes at the Chitose that came closest. Seemed piece of cake, but two of them were deep-runners  and two hits were not enough to sink that big ship. One Kagero found me but that early in the war they were quite easily evaded.
I've searched for the TF in the campaign files and I think I've found it, in case you want to take a look at it. It's a group called CoverForce1a in the EastAsiaCampaign.mis file. It has a very slow speed of just 3 knots in the area where I made contact (E of the entrance of Davao Gulf.). |
That is purposeful behavior. Depending upon where they are when you encounter them, the tenders might be launching and / or recovering their seaplanes (no animations for that). They had to stop to launch or recover. We also 'simulate' the minelayer laying mines, which was done in the San Bernardino Strait and near the Davao Gulf entrance, as well as other areas. No animations for that either, so all we can do is have the group slow and "pretend"... and what you did is the whole idea, to get 'em when they're vulnerable. Of course, you do need torpedoes that actually function as intended...
