Very few enemy ships spotted.

[Armistead]

Originally Posted by Threadfin

I don't necessarily agree with the 'cheating' assessment. Submarine staffs, and skippers, knew the routes the Japanese were using. That they didn't always take full advantage of this information is puzzling. Blair in Silent Victory makes the argument that submarine staffs spent far too much time and effort placing their boats in the wrong locations, that too much time was spent patrolling off well defended ports in relatively shallow water, when they would have been far more effective patrolling bottlenecks like the Luzon Strait, and I agree. The codebreakers in the Pacific were amazingly effective and accurate. They knew where the ships were in general, and where they were sailing.

RSRD uses very few contact reports, been nice had he included more.

I seldom do patrol zones, most are shipping lanes for singles, although several are timed for something big to come through. The problem is the timing is often off due to code or the way you travel. Simply, you leave base and rush to your patrol star and the timer goes gray, so you leave. It could another day or two before what comes through there does...