Will convoys zig zag?

[tedhealy]

Searching for zig zag won't return results, so I aplogize in advance if this is known or been asked a million times before, but will Japanese convoys zig zag on a base course? Or dare I say it, constant helm a course?

[bookworm_020]

In most of the reading on convoy attack by U.S. Subs, they seem to acted independant of each other under attack. More than once there were collisions due to ships paths crossing each other. Many had be armed with depth charges to drive off subs (even if they had no way of guessing when the sub was). A couple of subs got a good shaking from there effots.

[geetrue]

Originally Posted by tedhealy

Searching for zig zag won't return results, so I aplogize in advance if this is known or been asked a million times before, but will Japanese convoys zig zag on a base course? Or dare I say it, constant helm a course?

You mean the convoy on the way to Pearl Harbor in the winter of 1941 or the convoy on the way back from Pearl in 1941?

I'm not sure, but a lot of Japanese and their allies cargo/freighters hugged the coast line to stay away from American Submarines near the end of the war and like Bookworm said, most of them were armed and ready to duke it out with any captain foolish enough to attack them on the surface.

[tedhealy]

I'm talking about Japanese marus. Escorted Japanese shipping in a small convoy zig zagged on a base course as an asw effort. Sometimes they even constatntly adjusted their course by a few degrees to make wide sweeps off a base course to keep subs from having an easy time setting up torpedo shots.

Will this be in shIV? Or will it be like sh3 where every merchant ship out there plods straight along unaware and uncaring of the submarine threat?

[Morts]

errm convoys DO zigzag in SH3
i dont know about stock because i never attacked a convoy in stock but in GWX they sure do

[tedhealy]

Originally Posted by Morts

errm convoys DO zigzag in SH3
i dont know about stock because i never attacked a convoy in stock but in GWX they sure do

I never downloaded GWX

But if the devs didn't do it in sh3, will they do it in sh4? I'm guessing even if they don't, if it was moddable into sh3 it will be moddable into sh4 then, so I'm a happy camper

[bookworm_020]

They do zig zag in stock SH3. The Japanese did create convoys from around 1944 onward, but there was little orgaization and few escorts untill it was too late. Earlier convoys were just pairs of ships steaming together for mutual protection.