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.

[tater]

Well, it should really be partially dependant on where the ships are.

Under areas of US air cover, a higher %. Submarines didn't routinely send contact reports since they were (rightfully) worried about japanese DF capability. Ultra is a different case altogether.

Right now my layers are a test, but I think the plan would be for certain convoys and TFs to be marked by much higher %s. Some with short times between reports, or perhaps even a medium %, but over a very short interval. Idea is that some would be shadowed or closely followed priority targets.

So yeah, hacking them way way back is only step one, but building them back up in a controlled way is step 2 (mcoca's tool is great for the generalizations, but then someone has to go back by hand and look at the path each takes and make the call).

tater

[LukeFF]

Originally Posted by tater

Right now my layers are a test, but I think the plan would be for certain convoys and TFs to be marked by much higher %s. Some with short times between reports, or perhaps even a medium %, but over a very short interval. Idea is that some would be shadowed or closely followed priority targets.

So yeah, hacking them way way back is only step one, but building them back up in a controlled way is step 2 (mcoca's tool is great for the generalizations, but then someone has to go back by hand and look at the path each takes and make the call).

I look forward to seeing what you come up with. I just plugged in those numbers as a quick and dirty way of reducing the number of contact reports I receive, until a more refined campaign mod comes out later.