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Originally Posted by propbeanie
I have read multiple War Patrol Reports and other sources where the subs heard continual pinging in advance of a convoy's passage. Could have been an indicator of how important a convoy was?... Of course, there is a comment from one of the IJN officers in the JANAC interrogations where the fellow said that it seemed that a person could walk from Singapore to Tokyo on American submarine periscopes by 1944... It would be nice if it was a random thing, like so much of the game should be, but isn't... but it is old technology also, as far as games go, and it does seem to play rather well still, in spite of short-comings and modding difficulties...
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I just did a reread of several sub books, O'Kane's Books, followed by Fluckey's Thunder Below and Calvert's Silent Running. I believe it was Calvert's book that mentioned that the Japanese habit of pinging continuously while escorting convoys helped him locate convoys that otherwise he would never have found.