Aircraft Q&A Thread

[mello85]

I have a few questions regarding aircraft in SH4, so I figured I'd start a thread devoted to just that.

I have been playing around with the Webster's Better Air Patrols mod today and I'm still finding the aircraft in this game to be too numerous. To be honest, the only difference I see is that the aircraft are now more accurate when commencing their bombing runs.

I've also noticed that if an aircraft spots me, he will call all of his buddies from Kyushu to Hokkaido to come investigate the area. Is it even possible to get away from aircraft that are patrolling my last known position? I was patrolling off the southernmost bit of Honshu (right around Tanabe) around 3:00AM when out of nowhere my newly acquired Expert Watchman spots a Hyriu flat top...alone, no escort. As I headed to intercept I got a radar contact of two unidentified aircraft bearing directly toward me. The flat top was moving away from me as I chased, so I knew that if i dived I would surely lose him. I decided to risk it and kept going after the carrier. Biggest mistake ever. I ended up sinking the carrier with 4 torpedoes to the stern, and the previously unidentified Zero's missed their payload.

Now I said all that to say this: I've been on the run from those damn planes for the past 4 game days. Diving and making painfully slow 1/3 progress during the day and surfacing at dusk to recharge my batteries. To my knowledge I have done everything I should have to shake them, but every time I stick up my periscope for a peek they are like frenzied hornets. From the southernmost coast of Honshu, I have been meticulously hunted to my current position near Urakawa off the southcentral coast of Hokkaido. That's over 800 nautical miles folks, probably more if you consider that I've been changing course every so often to try and shake my pursuers.

I am completely out of ideas, so if any of you more experienced skippers have any advice please let me know! I'd really hate to load an earlier save, that would cost me about 8 hours of play time Unfortunately that seems to be a very tempting course of action at the moment.

In case you are wondering, I am running only 2 mods: EasyAOB and Webster's Better Air Patrols 1.5.

Does it matter whether the air patrols mod is first or last in the enabled mod list? Maybe I just didn't activate it properly...


(to be continued)