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Originally Posted by KaleunMarco
there are convoys of 5 or 6 ships. some with only one escort. gotta love that!
gotta sit down in the right lanes and it also depends on the date range. things tighten up after Saipan falls and then again after the Philippines are re-invaded.
right now, we are late 1942. we have found convoys: - off the east coast of luzon.
- coming in/out of Rabaul
- running between Davao and the Palau's
- Celebes Sea
Keep searching, you'll find them.
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USS Skate, a Balao out of Pearl , July '43. Around 30 days into first patrol. First area assigned was Convoy College. Caught good traffic out of Takao. Bagged a couple a big tankers and a 5000 ton freighter. Next assignment was 11B. Fair traffic, 3 sinkings including a sub. One task force: 2 BB's, 3 CA's and about 8 DD's. I let that one pass. Wasn't up to 'bearding the lion'. On to 7 with instructions to avoid the Bungo Strait. Unless of course I think that I have an advantage!
A lot of air traffic and moderate ship traffiic. Bagged a couple oilers and a freighter. I'm going to be there for a few more days. My setup for this campaign was 'normal' difficulty. Now that I got a feel for 1.26p, I'm going to kick up the campaign a few notches. Take it up to 'hard' difficulty and load up the
Harder Escorts mod.
I like this flavor of FotRSU. Has a good balance with air and sea. Aircraft aren't all that aggressive though. A couple things on my wish list: max optics with scaf and more down time with SJ1. All the books I've been reading mention the radar have a considerable amount of down time do to fragility of the electronics. The were repaired, for the most part, in a few hours. The operators were really talented. I think the detection model could be tweaked a bit more. And, before I forget, FotRSU has the prettiest water of all the megamods!
I think this is the best release yet! MacGregor sends Bravo Zulu to the team
