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Originally Posted by Jab_Bauer
Well, better ai would be interesting. But do you think as a single submarine you could cause an entire shipping industry to change their entire route based on the damage you've caused?
It would be awesome if that happened, but you traveled with other subs to devastate an entire area.
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Yes, Adm O'Kane mentioned that he had noticed the last time he had been in Yellow Sea/northern East China Sea, that their activities and sinkings between mainland China and Japan caused shipping to abandon the short run straight across(Shanghai to Kyushu) and instead hug the coast through the Yellow Sea, past the Shantung Promontory(China) past Port Arthur/Dalian, around and outh along the West coast of Korea and looping around the southern tip of Korea and through the Tsushima Strait...nearly tripling their sailing distance to avoid the actions of one sub.
O'Kane used that knowledge over a year later on his own boat to corral ships in the Yellow Sea. He sunk ships west of Tsushima Strait and then started at the southern tip of Korea and followed the coastline north to west, basically allowing the merchants to run to him. He swept the whole coast line, excluding the northwestern bay behind Dalian/Port Arthur. It was a target rich environment of his own making.
They struck, the merchants adjusted, because he was a great skipper he adjusted also and got the tonnage other skippers would have missed out on...and would have complained wasnt there.
The shipping wasnt neccesarily changed permenantly, the merchants just ran an audible play when they thought a blitz was coming. When things got quiet again, they'd venture back out on the standard route.