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Originally Posted by Captain Wreckless
Thanks. I've been lurking off and on for the last year. Life issues curtailed my playing. I'm used to playing with TMO/RSRD. This update I've only just started playing. Infact I just started an Alaska patrol. Ice bergs are a nice touch, though you really don't see them much if at all along the Aleutian Chain. Just retired as an Air Traffic Control Specialist in Alaska after 20 years. I do like the bergs. I wonder if I will come across the Flying Dutchman again?
The white squares are not a big deal at the moment. I'll just wait for the update. From what I read in the README, this is going to be epic.  |
Hey, congratulations on retirement! Alaska? Interesting. For some time I have contemplated moving to Anchorage. I plan to visit in June, a college friend lives there. Working on a trip to Attu and Kiska while there actually, but as you may know there is a lot involved. Hopefully, it works out, but am looking forward to it regardless.
I gave the Alaska campaign some attention and S Boats are not the tanks they used to be lol, max depth is way less than used to be, don't have the tank like hulls etc. so be prepared lol You should see some action up there once invasion kicks off in June 1942 , back and forth traffic starts running. Enemy carriers that bomb Dutch Harbor are in the area per history as well. I do not recall if I scripted the Dutch Harbor Air Strike in last version but 90 percent sure I did. In V 2.0 I have the invasions of Attu and Kiska scripted missions supporting them, Battle of Komandorski Islands in 1943. Have the surface ships firing at one another at longer ranges instead of closing to point blank range in daylight like its the age of sail lol.
I added icebergs to Alaskan waters as well as Sea of Okhotsk and Kuril Islands for immersion since nearly all of the patrol reports I have read from those areas mention icebergs, but . Fun fact...some of the large ones are tall enough that the SD air search radar will register them as air contact. Turned off SJ radar so would stop detecting one and slowing my travel down, and the SD (which at this time cant turn off in TMO, but working on that) picked the big berg up lol.
I was always a TMO /RSRD user myself and initially planned to revamp RSRD along with TMO since both were in need of a face lift as the creators are no longer active in the community and had been some time since last updated. However, RSRD is quite finicky about being edited, especially the campaign traffic via the mission editor, it "breaks" things, so I went with TMO only and completely reworked the traffic, which took some inspiration from RSRD as explained in the README. Worked out in the end, pretty happy with the results, working on a few things that did not make it into initial version.
The Dutchman is around, last I saw was near Johnston Island.
Enjoy!
