Quote:
|
Originally Posted by AVGWarhawk
Quote:
|
Originally Posted by Suicide Charlie
Quote:
|
Originally Posted by AVGWarhawk
Quote:
|
Originally Posted by Suicide Charlie
I'm not looking for like a road map to success. I actually more interesting in tools that will allow me to log my own and create a map with what intellegence I've pick up over my encounters during parols in a particular boat.
Oddly enough I seem to just be missing shipping at my patrol zones with RSRD. My first patrol with the USS Tambor was a good one simply because I caught an IJN task force with two HIRYU's about 700nm WNW of Wake. I took a flat top. I lost the sound contact while I dropped back into a shadow position to recharge batteries and reload. I proceed on to my patrol area which was 130nm SE of Okinawa. The only contacts I had were aircraft. Of course I couldn't do much prowling due to fuel reserves. I was hoping to get extremely lucky and get a Maru or two moving from the East coast Japanese ports down to the Phillipines, Boreno, Formosa (Tiawan), etc to be dumped in my lap.
The patrol I'm on now sent me just on the West side of Okinawa in the East China Sea. I expected to be almost walking across a sea of steel as past experiences there have always been fruitful. Not a single thing. Now they're sending me back SSE of Okinawa.
It's March 11th, 1942 in my game.
|
Look in the shallow water. I find a lot there. Sometimes a patrol will be fruitless. Since Lurkers last patch, I'm finding a lot of vessels running the slot south of Celebes. |
The Sea of Celebes is usually pretty decent. Problem is I'm operating out of Pearl and Midway, so my time on station and ability to roam is limited. |
Run 10 kts to the main island of Japan. When on station, cruise at 5-7 kts to conserve. |
That's about usual for my proceedure. Cruise at Standard Bell for the best fuel effiecency and try to use 2/3rds Bell after that.
Here's a question that I acutally have been wondering about though. In order to charge your batteries you burn marine diesel. Makes sense, I'm not stranger to this, I work on 100+ ton boats and the same prinicples are applied for generators and the like.
With that in mind does switching between diesel and electric engines conserve that much or if any fuel at all? It seemed in SHIII it was definitely noticable. But, I've been in situations in SHIV where I'm trying to conserve every gallon of fuel I have in order to return to a re-fueling station so I'll switch between running on the surface and submerged, typically at 2/3rds Bell.