I've been cruising the Celebes Sea (Dec 1941, Jan 42) zig-zagging back and forth looking for stuff. At first I tried zooming around the entire sea, which isnt that big. I found ships at the northern chokepoint (not looking at a map right now so cant give too much detail), and the southern chokepoint. From contact reports there seems to be a lot of ships along the eastern edge of that sea as well.
What I find that seems to work tho is pick a small area to stick around in, preferably around a chokepoint. The game seems to know where you are, and after a day or two of patrolling with no contacts...suddenly I start finding all sorts of ships to shoot at within easy intercept range around me, even the odd little convoy.
My last patrol I did this, then moved south near Java, and repeated the process...at first nothing, not on hydrophone, not on radar, not on the contact reports. After a couple days gametime patrolling an apparently empty sea, I suddenly had my pick of single merchants, double merchants, even small convoys, and LOTS of double-destroyer taskforces to keep it interesting. No planes tho....
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