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Originally Posted by tedhealy
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Originally Posted by TripleDaddy
And I'm having the opposite problem. I can't seem to throw a rock without hitting a task force. In my first 4 war patrols with the Asiatic Fleet, I have found 4 amphibious task forces, 1 battleship and 1 carrier task force, a 10 freighter convoy and a 5 freighter convoy. If I had enough torpedoes, I could have sent most of the Japanese fleet to the bottom. As it is, I've got 1 battleship, 1 fleet carrier, 1 heavy cruiser, 7 light cruisers and a destroyer to my credit.
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Interesting, in both my patrols out of Pearl, one to the East China Sea and one to the Marshall and Caroline Islands, I've seen very little. I've gotten some task force contacts by radio, but they've always been too far away and heading in the opposite direction. I've got 3 merchants sunk for something around 13,000 tons. Maybe I'll have to put in for a transfer to the Asiatic Fleet to see that kind of action :hmm: |
It's almost more frustrating with more contacts, you just wish for more torpedoes. The carrier task force I stumbled upon in the Java Sea had 3 fleet carriers, 2 heavy cruisers, 1 light cruiser, 1 small tanker, 1 large tanker, 2 escort carriers and 5 destroyers. What was I driving? S-40.
The amphibious task forces like to anchor about 6 miles offshore - much closer to land than I think most people would patrol - of the Phillippines. You don't rack up much tonnage (Small Passenger Carriers are only worth about 1700 tons), but they are all lined up in nice neat rows poking along at 1 knot. Good secondary explosions.
And in case everybody hasn't heard, patch 1.3 is confirmed.
http://www.subsim.com/radioroom/showthread.php?t=115305