Static Search Vs. Dynamic Search

[magic452]

Just a few thoughts.

If I remember right you wouldn't get a mission to Luzon from Pearl via Midway. You would go to Japanese home waters that are closer so you have more fuel for patrolling. This would hold for both methods but with the static patrol the extra fuel would do you much good because you are already staying out 60 days.

I can only think of a single time I've spent anything near 1000 nm in pursuit and evasion. I chased a fast TF in heavy weather at flank speed for something like 200 nm. Even at that I RTB for torpedoes not fuel, I had one left. I was out of Brisbane so fuel wasn't a real factor.

Safety/weather allowance of 1000 nm. seems rather excessive.

So in my experience I have a lot more fuel than you are allocating for patrolling. I can't think of a single time I patrolled for only 8 days, it just hasn't happened.

31 ships in 31 days of paroling. Nice if you can sink 31 ships with only 24 torpedoes. In my experience two fish for every target and some times three.
dynamic search = 12.4, two torpedoes per ship = 24+ torpedoes.
A static search will net you 12 ships at best in 12 days or more patrolling and you RTB for lack of fish and fuel is no factor. I've gone many a day without seeing anything at 10 knots and that is covering 220 nm. more than a static search would and that's at 0.49% higher rate.

The idea is to sink enemy shipping not stay on patrol as long as possible.

The only time a static search would be of any real value is if you are assigned to patrol the entrance of a major port, a choke point or a mission to the Sea of Japan and even at that I think a dynamic search would be more productive. These areas are patrolled by aricraft and you can get down much faster at 10 knots than you can at zero. What O'Kane did or didn't do has little relevance to playing this game. Things just don't work like they did in real life.

Where do you get that PR figure? 1.0 verses 1.49 at 10 knots.

I don't patrol perpendicular to a shipping lane but rather zig zag along it's length.

#3 With a dynamic search you will leave that shipping desert just by the fact you are moving and patrolling the biggest possible area.
With a static search you leave that desert 20nm. a day or the the whole fuel thing falls apart. There are lots of shipping deserts out there and you go where you are sent. If you're playing by the book you do your patrol and call in for another mission, can get sent to many shipping deserts this way.

Anyway for my torpedoes I'll patrol at 10 knots and take my chances.

Magic