SH4 TMO 2.5

[yetanotherlancer]

Hello all, hope all is well this evening. Enjoying TMO 2.5 for sure! Ended up turning the map contact updates back on as it was tough locating ships without it.

I have noticed I don't see too many small groups of merchants sailing around in career mode. I patrol the assigned areas and have done 2 patrols and around 3 to 4 missions per patrol. Started Dec 8 1941 and am up to February 1942. Only have spotted about 3 convoys mostly around the Philippines. I'm wondering if it's still to early in the war for the convoys to be further south in the Java and Celebes seas? The vanilla game seemed to provide alot more single contacts and convoys which I'm sure wasn't as realistic. Other than that the game feels like new with TMO.

Happy sailing!

[Rockin Robbins]

One thing that a lot of people are confused about, and always have been. TMO is not a realism mod. Yes, there are realistic things in it but that is not the purpose of TMO. The purpose is to make the game difficult!

When Ducimus had a choice of having lots of unescorted merchies sashaying all over the ocean or mixing in escorts with just about all of them, knowing what you know now about his evil mindset, what do you suppose he did? Thaaaaaaaaat's right.

And yes, in the early part of the war submarines were sent to places the brass knew would be good jumping off points for a repeat Pearl Harbor attack, not where they knew you'd find shipping. Therefore you'll come up empty on some missions early on in the war. If you think about it, they did the appropriate thing. But it's frustrating patrolling empty ocean.