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Originally Posted by doulos05
I have found, in 41/42, that hanging around Burneo can be pretty fruitful. The Celebes Sea and the South China sea are both right there. Just north of Burneo, there are 2 very narrow passages that I like to frequent. The one immediately north of the island and the one immediately south of the Phillipines. Ships sail along the Western side of the island that creates these two channels like it's a freaking interstate. This mission I had to pass up 5 sonar contacts (8 ships total) because I needed the torpedos for my photo recon of Manila (What? You mean they just want me to take pictures of it? No way, I'm certain that "photo recon" is code for "Blow crap up"). Now, I am running without any mods that affect convoy generation, but that sea lane should be pretty active anyway (it's the easy way to get from Manila to Balipatkan(sp?).
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BTW, I'm on my 8th tour, and just got assigned out of Brisbane. Told to go patrol off north of the Philippines. Never made it. After topping off the tanks at the Soloman Islands, the route to my patrol position was so damned full of traffic that I actually ran out of torpedoes about 40 hours away from my assigned position (yes, even the aft torpedoes - I like to "fart in their general direction"). :p
So, north of Soloman Islands and just hug the areas north (watch for patrol planes!) of that spot, all the way up the eastern edges of the Philippines.