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AVGWarhawk · 03-28-08, 08:57 PM

Not all flash traffic will be in your area but sometimes you get on that is very close...Hot Damn! Full bore flank, the chase is on! One member said there is no traffic in RSRD. Lurker who created RSRD posted up a picture of the traffic he implemented. There were ships everywhere. You just have to think logically as to what the shipping lanes would be for that particular time of the war. Patrol and they will come

Currently I'm playing cold stone stock. My first patrol point presented three convoys on the way. Needless to say I was out of torps before I hit the first patrol area. I returned to port for reload. I bit unrealistic but some like to play this way so with RSRD we can get the best of both worlds.

Quillan · 03-28-08, 10:03 PM

I was out on my last patrol using TMO and RSRDC, heading over towards the East China Sea from Midway, when I got one of those flash traffic messages, informing me of IJN ships redeploying to home waters from Rabaul. They gave me a suspected location and intercept time, which happened to only be about 100 miles away and pretty much where I was heading towards anyhow, so I made a slight detour on my deployment. 28 hours later, here comes 4 ships on radar. Turned out to be 2 DDs and 2 Kongo BBs. I fired six torpedoes at the lead Kongo, hit with 5, sank it, and managed to evade. GOD, did that feel good!

peabody · 03-28-08, 10:34 PM

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Originally Posted by AVGWarhawk

Currently I'm playing cold stone stock. My first patrol point presented three convoys on the way. Needless to say I was out of torps before I hit the first patrol area. I returned to port for reload. I bit unrealistic but some like to play this way so with RSRD we can get the best of both worlds.

Speaking of playing stock, I don't have any mods because my video card is right on the edge now, I even had to remove ROW which I didn't want to do. But, anyway to the unrealistic stock. I was sent from Brisbane to patrol "the slot" in the Solomons (I think that's what it's called-area between the two rows of islands?) There is a refit station at the southern end. I would go toward the north, run out of torpedos and go back south, back north out again, back south. Just to see what would happen I reloaded a saved game and ended up with 109 merchants and finally got sick of it and went to Rabaul and sank two BBs and a heavy cruiser. Enough is enough! And I never had to wait for any either, I would sink 6-8 going one way every time and whatever I had fish left for on the way back. Steady stream of Merchants. LOTS of tankers. Is there any historical reason they would be going there? The Allieds controlled the port at the southern end, Honiara I think it is, and they pass right by, well not when I'm there they don't.

So, yes stock is a bit overloaded at times.

Peabody

03-28-08, 08:57 PM	#1
AVGWarhawk Lucky Jack Join Date: Jun 2005 Location: In a 1954 Buick. Posts: 28,261 Downloads: 90 Uploads: 0	Not all flash traffic will be in your area but sometimes you get on that is very close...Hot Damn! Full bore flank, the chase is on! One member said there is no traffic in RSRD. Lurker who created RSRD posted up a picture of the traffic he implemented. There were ships everywhere. You just have to think logically as to what the shipping lanes would be for that particular time of the war. Patrol and they will come Currently I'm playing cold stone stock. My first patrol point presented three convoys on the way. Needless to say I was out of torps before I hit the first patrol area. I returned to port for reload. I bit unrealistic but some like to play this way so with RSRD we can get the best of both worlds. __________________ “You're painfully alive in a drugged and dying culture.” ― Richard Yates, Revolutionary Road

03-28-08, 10:03 PM	#2
Quillan Samurai Navy Join Date: Apr 2005 Posts: 579 Downloads: 2 Uploads: 0	I was out on my last patrol using TMO and RSRDC, heading over towards the East China Sea from Midway, when I got one of those flash traffic messages, informing me of IJN ships redeploying to home waters from Rabaul. They gave me a suspected location and intercept time, which happened to only be about 100 miles away and pretty much where I was heading towards anyhow, so I made a slight detour on my deployment. 28 hours later, here comes 4 ships on radar. Turned out to be 2 DDs and 2 Kongo BBs. I fired six torpedoes at the lead Kongo, hit with 5, sank it, and managed to evade. GOD, did that feel good! __________________ We, the unwilling, led by the unknowing, are doing the impossible for the ungrateful. We have done so much, for so long, with so little, that we are now qualified to do anything with nothing.