Holy Cow! It's the entire jap fleet!!

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I've heard a lot of questoins about "where are the Japanese ships in RSRD?"

Anyway, I was given orders to leave Manila and head north to my patrol area northwest of Luzon. Instead of makng a straight line, I thought, if the japanese are heading for Luzon, they'll more than likely come down the coast, but out of sight of land. So I head north staying north about 50 miles off the coast. Just as I was getting ready to turn WNW, lookouts report "Ship spotted".

So I jump to the bridge and look through the binoculars. When I see all the smoke trails, I think Holy @#$%, it's the entire stinkin Jap fleet!

The number of smoke trails took up 2 binocular widths of view! Of course Lt. Lunkhead forgot to wind the camera for the second shot but I do have one pic


This was less than half of the smoke trails! The other view had even more in it!

Plotted an intercept course- this is too juicy of a target to pass up!

Personally I don't get why people are not finding targets in RSRD. I've had at least one major encounter with a convoy or task force on every patrol. In one I encountered both a TF and a 6 ship convoy. So the targets are out there. But with RSRD, because you have to look for them instead of waiting for them to fall into your lap, it's more satisfying to have such encounters.