Moving to Penang

Brag · 08-15-07, 06:53 PM

Thanks, Steed. This is good for us who are thinking of heading to warmer climes

Torvald Von Mansee · 08-15-07, 07:18 PM

Well, I just started a guy in Penang. Here I have been, going along under the surface w/a schnorkel like a sucker, when I don't have to worry about aircraft, yet!!!

pinkus-pils · 08-15-07, 07:45 PM

there is usually another "task force" that runs from Western Australia up to the Western side of India.

I've attacked it once with visibility about 300 meters and only saw few merchants, a few escorts, and a handful of LSTs.

JScones · 08-16-07, 03:22 AM

What frustrates me is that after painstakingly researching from multiple sources and snippets of information the Indian Ocean convoy routes for GWX 1.0, I found one actual 1940's map containing them all, including average composition, speed, "rules" and other useful information!! Of course, by this stage GWX was already released.

Fortunately, GWX is not too far from the money; the main routes are all included give or take a few hundred kms of the actual route.

Unfortunately though, the composition/speed of Indian Ocean convoys in GWX is not quite correct. I did raise the corrected convoy details with Lehmann and BBW a few times, but I never heard anything more about it, so don't know if 1.04 will be even more historically accurate. :hmm:

One thing though, Indian Ocean warship movements in GWX are about as historically accurate as possible - you can look at nearly any historical map and know that the same ships will be in the same places in GWX.

JScones · 08-16-07, 03:59 AM

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Originally Posted by Torvald Von Mansee

Well, I just started a guy in Penang. Here I have been, going along under the surface w/a schnorkel like a sucker, when I don't have to worry about aircraft, yet!!!

Don't expect "Bay of Biscay levels" of aircraft in the Indian. It's a totally different theatre where submarines were not considered the same threat as they were in the Atlantic. For example, an Allied instruction issued in Dec 1943 ceased the use of convoys *except* for around India and the Persian Gulf, so this gives you a bit of an idea of how little a threat the Allies saw subs in the region.

Even around Australia it would be rare to see ASW patrols consisting of more than one or two planes. More often it was just single planes on two to four hour rotated patrols during daylight.

Of course, this doesn't make the planes you come across any less deadly, so don't go getting too complacent.

STEED · 08-16-07, 05:18 AM

I think I shall do the Black Sea next as I got the itch to go there so in a month or too watch this space.

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08-16-07, 03:22 AM	#4
JScones Navy Seal Join Date: Apr 2005 Posts: 5,501 Downloads: 19 Uploads: 0	What frustrates me is that after painstakingly researching from multiple sources and snippets of information the Indian Ocean convoy routes for GWX 1.0, I found one actual 1940's map containing them all, including average composition, speed, "rules" and other useful information!! Of course, by this stage GWX was already released. Fortunately, GWX is not too far from the money; the main routes are all included give or take a few hundred kms of the actual route. Unfortunately though, the composition/speed of Indian Ocean convoys in GWX is not quite correct. I did raise the corrected convoy details with Lehmann and BBW a few times, but I never heard anything more about it, so don't know if 1.04 will be even more historically accurate. :hmm: One thing though, Indian Ocean warship movements in GWX are about as historically accurate as possible - you can look at nearly any historical map and know that the same ships will be in the same places in GWX. Last edited by JScones; 08-16-07 at 05:45 AM.

08-16-07, 05:18 AM	#6
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08-15-07, 07:45 PM	#3
pinkus-pils Swabbie Join Date: Jul 2007 Posts: 12 Downloads: 0 Uploads: 0	there is usually another "task force" that runs from Western Australia up to the Western side of India. I've attacked it once with visibility about 300 meters and only saw few merchants, a few escorts, and a handful of LSTs.