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Originally Posted by Mios 4Me
Convoy College area, Dec 1944, heavy fog, medium precip, upgraded to a newly constructed Tench:
Encountered a H/K TF at close range, just in time to dive deep to safety. Radar was operating and there was nothing unusual about the watch.
Several days later, encountered the same TF in identical conditions. Radar first indicated a large group at long range, then flashed the TF at close range. Again, just time to dive deep.
Both times the TF had the drop on us, despite using the standard SJ-1. We were running for home at TC of 3-4k in anticipation of the two-week slog back. Never experienced this behavior prior.
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Skipping over a couple posts where we discussed the possibility of this issue stemming from the early Tench upgrade - I rolled back to the last Archerfish patrol and extended it. Same thing happened again, this time with a convoy, in perfect weather during the day.
A large convoy symbol suddenly flashed on the NavMap north of us, just south of Hong Kong, close enough that two of the four merchants could be identified visually. Worse, three escorts were already zeroing in on me, with one only 3800 meters away. Prior to the encounter, the game had dropped out of light TC (1000-1500, probably less) a couple of times with no apparent cause, as if pausing to see if a contact were called for there or some check failed. Radar was otherwise functioning and the watch crew was on station.
I exited the game and restarted the patrol. This time there were two other aircraft contacts en route to the same spot and the Large Group convoy was detected at long range, 30+ km.
I've encountered these TC "stutters" several times in other patrols and for no discernible reason, but have never experienced these inferior radar range issues in any career that I can recall.