Dont You Dare Say......

[LukeFF]

Originally Posted by tater

Right now my layers are gutted of escorts. None of this early 1942 crap with 8 ships escorted by 4 DDs as the convoy norm. Smaller convoys (now with mcoca's tool, they even zig-zag) early war (and fewer of those by a long shot), and they likely have a single DD escort at more, with Minesweepers or Subchasers as the other escorts (with a %, so escorts are not always there). I also axed the contact report generation, so the only way I see stuff 95% of the time is to spot it myself.

Cutting out the extra escorts is all good and well, but I'm not so sure about cutting all of the contact report percentages back to 95%. Early war, yes, intel on Japanese naval movements was very scarce, but by 1944 it was a totally different story. I have mine set up as follows:

-1941: 10%
-1942: 20%
-1943: 25%
-1944: 33%

Granted, I've not done a whole lot of testing with these numbers yet, but so far, they, along with the Fewer Radio Contacts mod, have worked out fairly well.