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Originally Posted by propbeanie
... and that would be another potential cause of the bad spawn... the group cannot "breathe", and they're trying to avoid each other... though my suspect group is spaced at over 800m  - we have seen this quite a bit throughout all of SH4, where a group, no matter how it is arranged, each vessel attempts to get to the waypoint location, and they gradually close together... like ignoring dates, the game does ignore spacings... |
Ahoy, propbeanie, ol' chap...
Have some info to add to this discussion between you & KaleunMarco.. though, I 'WILL' point out, it does involve another group.
A task force, by the tagging associated with the contact I ran across...
Made it from Brisbane, to My original objective I got, prior to leaving base. Go to assigned point & await further orders. Which I did, got orders via radio to patrol area & sink any targets found. Which after 4 days, I think it was, maybe up to a week.. will have to reverify on that. Ran across 2 targets, sank both.. & completed objective.
After that, & having sank a few targets en route... decided to hot foot it back to base & end patrol. (Am wondering, if it is possible to put in for a trans from Brisbane back to Freemantle... hmm..
as with being based there, it don't take near as long to reach areas around the Philippines, as it does out of Brisbane...)
Any way, am roughly East of Taiwan as it is now known by... roughly 500 maybe 600 nm's in deep water... when I ran into that task force...
As best as I can determine, this sucker is big. 3 BB's (Ise, Kongo & can't recall the 3rd), 2 cruisers no idea on exact type other than heavy i am guessing. I sank 1 in 1 of My attacks on the Kongo BB.. 1 or 2 torps may have sunk that 1. 2, maybe 3 CV's... 1 looks like it may be a front line carrier, 1 light carrier (Ry something.. ) & 3rd, no clear ID on. Interesting thing was, that last 1 I believe, tangled with a DD or DE... no idea as it got left way back behind the rest of the group. 4 (rough guess, may have been 6 or 8..) of some merchie's.. @ least 2 were the same kind.. but can't recall their names right off... & @ least 8 escorts of DD/DE classing... no ID's on them.. was fun trying to recall all of that off the top of My head...
1 thing I noted... the escorts were milling about looking for Me.. merchie's were trying to flee.. yet, the cruisers & 1 BB went to a dead stop.. 1 BB kept moving but at a reduced speed... it went past Me slowly, after I sent off My spread of torps at the Kongo.
I may.. MAY be lucky enough to run into them again.. not sure. I did do a save, just prior to getting the radar contact report on that task force... & if it is scripted to pass through there at that point in time & all.. then the odds are good.
If I do, will see of taking exact locality markers, so as to pin point it down further... as well as the date as well.
What got Me to thinking on this encounter.. was what you said of spacing & such in your last post. That I quoted here...
End Report...
M. M.
