Goose eggs... Common? - Page 2

SurfnSea · 10-02-10, 04:57 PM

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Originally Posted by fastfed

LOL I am on my 6th patrol and I sunk a TOTAL OF 4 Merchants.. And saw only 5 Merchants.. I have gone to EVERY single spot that HQ tells me to go to. I patrol everywhere I am supposed.. I am surprised they still allow me to go out, lol.. This is PATHETIC! I suck at this for some reason.. I think I might have to just stick with TWO and skip out on RSRD for now.. I just don't understand how I can go out for months, patrol the areas it tells me to, patrol area's on the map posted here and only run into airplanes EVERY hour on the surface..

I get a hunch that once you find a convoy there won't be much left when you get done with it. Nothing worse for a convoy's survivability than a PO'd sub captain. Pity the poor convoy.

WernherVonTrapp · 10-02-10, 05:27 PM

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Originally Posted by fastfed

I got a flash traffic update, telling me IJN is resupplying and if I am in the area to Truk I should go there by Aug17th, the problem is, I will be late, probably get there by the 18th or 19th and I don't know if they already despawned

Although there have been a few times where I actually intercepted some of these TF/convoys, for the most part, I'm usually too far away. There have been a few times where, if it hadn't been for some harbor raping, I wouldn't have gotten any tonnage at all. It happens, though you have to find your own way to beat the odds. If you're out of one of the Australian ports, try patrolling the SW section of the East China Sea. That's where most of the tankers would transport the fuel from the Dutch East Indies. A couple of other good port areas to hang out are along the Singapore/Hong Kong and Shanghai routes. I'm confident that your luck will eventually change.

Armistead · 10-02-10, 05:58 PM

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Originally Posted by fastfed

Oops.. Its acutally Aug 14th,

42

You missed the Battle of Savo Island on Aug 8. This is actually a large surface battle between the JP's and Allied heavy CA's. It's fun just to watch, but obvious you got to get in the mix why the ships are blasting each other. http://www.subsim.com/radioroom/show...=166855&page=2

Your best bet for Sep is to stay in the slot, you'll run into several DD TF, but a few will have CA's and merchants or to hang around the Bismark Sea

The next best thing coming will be Oct. 17
Position 161.20S x 3.50E

Refit in time to get there and best to get there a day early.

Do not expend torps on any merchants in route. The JP's will be coming in force.

For me I decided to start a new career out of Sura in Jan. Using the map below, I saw the Hiryu and Soryu would be attacking Ambrom Jan 20. Having time looking at the other map that shows invasion forces, I first went to Menodo as one of the java groups show there. Sure enough I found the invasion group. After that went to try to find the Hiryu. I didn't find it per my battle map near Ambrom, so I went to try and cut it off in the small pass at Halmahera, lil pass right above the word Sea on the map. Sure enough carrier planes started showing up. Make sure you learn the carrier planes, dead give away a carrier is in the area. I finally found the Carrier TF going fast through the strait. Planes spotted me and a DD is giving chase and had to dive. The group is moving fast, so maybe I'll catch it later. Those two maps in the link work great. I have more for later war.

Another thing I have found with the patrol stars with RSRD. Often they will put you in a good area, but usually the group comes a day or so after you complete your patrol, so hang around a few days. Also, seldom does the group come through the star, usually about 50 nms from the star, so patrol away if you decide to go to the patrol zones.

fastfed · 10-02-10, 08:14 PM

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Originally Posted by Armistead

You missed the Battle of Savo Island on Aug 8. This is actually a large surface battle between the JP's and Allied heavy CA's. It's fun just to watch, but obvious you got to get in the mix why the ships are blasting each other. http://www.subsim.com/radioroom/show...=166855&page=2

Your best bet for Sep is to stay in the slot, you'll run into several DD TF, but a few will have CA's and merchants or to hang around the Bismark Sea

The next best thing coming will be Oct. 17
Position 161.20S x 3.50E

Refit in time to get there and best to get there a day early.

Do not expend torps on any merchants in route. The JP's will be coming in force.

On my way sir

fastfed · 10-02-10, 08:20 PM

I don't have those degrees.. I see 16.1S
Is there a better tool for this or something?

fastfed · 10-02-10, 08:24 PM

From the degrees shown on the map, it says Im in the atlantic??

Armistead · 10-02-10, 08:29 PM

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Originally Posted by fastfed

I don't have those degrees.. I see 16.1S
Is there a better tool for this or something?

You're not following orders....hehe, good thing.

Sorry, that's 161.20E x 3.50 S, near Ontong above the Solomons.

Not looking I got E and S mixed up....A good skipper should've figured that out.

This is the battle of Santa Cruz... Here is my story on it if you want more directions...I chased this group for many days...
http://forums.ubi.com/eve/forums/a/t...848#1451037848

fastfed · 10-02-10, 08:39 PM

LOL I was loosing my mind.. I kept googling different maps thinking I was nuts..

OK THANK YOU!! I am on my way sir!

Armistead · 10-02-10, 08:48 PM

If you make it past that, we're really gonna need some help later.

Dec 18
146.30 E x 5S

Intel shows JP's intend to invade about 110 nms NNW of Lae. TF may contain AuxCru's. We seldom get a chance at these, in fact this may be our only chance...take them out at all cost. If these troops land, Lae will be lost. The only troops on the Island are lead by Sgt. Wernher. He was last seen drunk in an underground cave with a few native girls.

fastfed · 10-02-10, 09:05 PM

In position, Oct 5th, its time for my boys to take a swim and relax as all hell is going to break out! i really hope so. LOL I haven't seen much action.. Will report soon

SurfnSea · 10-02-10, 09:06 PM

I've been following this thread and another like it. So a big thank you to Armistead and others who tell the rest of the community how to find these rich targets in SH4.

Another reason for this reply is: What if we had a separate sticky thread that is a "This Day in WWII History: Pacific theater" where the events in the thread correspond to the events, in SH4 (with and w/o mods) that Armistead and others tell us? So when people visit here they can go to the "This Day in WWII History: Pacific theater" to see where they can take their sub for some really good targets.

For example: From another thread I learned about the returning Pearl Harbor group. So at the moment I'm about four days out of Manilla, about December 12, 1941, and I'm now sailing to the Bungo Strait and plan to arrive just before December 20th in order to intercept the JPN.

I think it would be interesting to have an organized SH4 time line thread and would help the immersion of SH4.

fastfed · 10-02-10, 10:03 PM

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Originally Posted by SurfnSea

I've been following this thread and another like it. So a big thank you to Armistead and others who tell the rest of the community how to find these rich targets in SH4.

Another reason for this reply is: What if we had a separate sticky thread that is a "This Day in WWII History: Pacific theater" where the events in the thread correspond to the events, in SH4 (with and w/o mods) that Armistead and others tell us? So when people visit here they can go to the "This Day in WWII History: Pacific theater" to see where they can take their sub for some really good targets.

For example: From another thread I learned about the returning Pearl Harbor group. So at the moment I'm about four days out of Manilla, about December 12, 1941, and I'm now sailing to the Bungo Strait and plan to arrive just before December 20th in order to intercept the JPN.

I think it would be interesting to have an organized SH4 time line thread and would help the immersion of SH4.

I agree. .But its kind of a cheat.. Well, I mean I guess the way RSRD is set up, is its accurate.. So all we have to do is look it up and figure it out ourselves.. But knowing "EXACTLY" where and when is great..

For example.

Admiral Armistead,

I am happy to report Sunk 1 Battleship and chased a carrier, two fish fired and both were duds, had to evade the destroyers for a while, but got away clean.. 1 battleship sunk, all four fish hit with beauty but beauty is an understatement..

Permission to return to port please.. myself and men are tired, we have been out for 3 months, lol.

by the way Admiral, "LOL" mean Laugh out loud, which is a very popular abbreviation in the future for talking on an electric screen.. You will see one day

fastfed · 10-02-10, 10:22 PM

ARGGG I am so mad!! I sunk almost 50k tons, including the kongo Battleship..

I get the silver star, yet they are not offering me a new boat!! I want the GATO!!

This is a real disappointment

fastfed · 10-02-10, 10:26 PM

Should I transfer from Brisbane and go to Aleution Islands base??

I really am starting to hate this boat, lol I need some anti-aircraft guns

Armistead · 10-02-10, 10:31 PM

No doubt it's a cheat, we know history. The real cheat is to look in the mission editor itself, something I've never done. I actually find it fun to study maps such as the ones I've shown. For one, why Lurker reworked a lot of stuff, he certainly couldn't get to it all. Also, why knowing may get you close, doesn't mean you will find it. I've sat in areas for days where historical stuff happened and found nothing.

Take the battle I just finished. I picked a good cut off point where the Hiryu and Soryu should be returning, just a guess. I found them, but in reality they should've been heading north, instead they were going south.
Possible this is part of the stock setup and not RSRD. Took my 57 miles to do an end around but got them both. Now a quick refit to Darwin and will try to hit the big carrier force before it makes it to the Indian Ocean. Here again, I've looked for the TF in several places where it made it's foray into the indian ocean, but never found it. Maybe Lurker did or didn't, that's why I don't look. I find that part of the fun.

For sure I've played RSRD long enough I could find about anything, but lately looking for other things. What's really amazing about RSRD is lurker got the ship types down to almost perfection, often even the correct amount of DD's.

I think what would make a good mod is to forget historics and do a total redo of traffic..Let's assume the JP's take Midway. Then you could set up traffic to attack Pearl, ect...Just totally rescript the battles so we wouldn't know, then we would be on fair ground as look as you don't peek at the ME. I've worked on some of this traffic doing singles, just a lot of work to do a campaign.

10-02-10, 08:20 PM	#20
fastfed Grey Wolf Join Date: Apr 2004 Posts: 786 Downloads: 254 Uploads: 0	I don't have those degrees.. I see 16.1S Is there a better tool for this or something?

10-02-10, 08:24 PM	#21
fastfed Grey Wolf Join Date: Apr 2004 Posts: 786 Downloads: 254 Uploads: 0	From the degrees shown on the map, it says Im in the atlantic??

10-02-10, 08:39 PM	#23
fastfed Grey Wolf Join Date: Apr 2004 Posts: 786 Downloads: 254 Uploads: 0	LOL I was loosing my mind.. I kept googling different maps thinking I was nuts.. OK THANK YOU!! I am on my way sir!

10-02-10, 08:48 PM	#24
Armistead Rear Admiral Join Date: Dec 2008 Location: on the Dan Posts: 10,880 Downloads: 364 Uploads: 0	If you make it past that, we're really gonna need some help later. Dec 18 146.30 E x 5S Intel shows JP's intend to invade about 110 nms NNW of Lae. TF may contain AuxCru's. We seldom get a chance at these, in fact this may be our only chance...take them out at all cost. If these troops land, Lae will be lost. The only troops on the Island are lead by Sgt. Wernher. He was last seen drunk in an underground cave with a few native girls.

10-02-10, 09:05 PM	#25
fastfed Grey Wolf Join Date: Apr 2004 Posts: 786 Downloads: 254 Uploads: 0	In position, Oct 5th, its time for my boys to take a swim and relax as all hell is going to break out! i really hope so. LOL I haven't seen much action.. Will report soon

10-02-10, 09:06 PM	#26
SurfnSea Electrician's Mate Join Date: Jul 2003 Posts: 137 Downloads: 10 Uploads: 0	I've been following this thread and another like it. So a big thank you to Armistead and others who tell the rest of the community how to find these rich targets in SH4. Another reason for this reply is: What if we had a separate sticky thread that is a "This Day in WWII History: Pacific theater" where the events in the thread correspond to the events, in SH4 (with and w/o mods) that Armistead and others tell us? So when people visit here they can go to the "This Day in WWII History: Pacific theater" to see where they can take their sub for some really good targets. For example: From another thread I learned about the returning Pearl Harbor group. So at the moment I'm about four days out of Manilla, about December 12, 1941, and I'm now sailing to the Bungo Strait and plan to arrive just before December 20th in order to intercept the JPN. I think it would be interesting to have an organized SH4 time line thread and would help the immersion of SH4.

10-02-10, 10:22 PM	#28
fastfed Grey Wolf Join Date: Apr 2004 Posts: 786 Downloads: 254 Uploads: 0	ARGGG I am so mad!! I sunk almost 50k tons, including the kongo Battleship.. I get the silver star, yet they are not offering me a new boat!! I want the GATO!! This is a real disappointment

10-02-10, 10:26 PM	#29
fastfed Grey Wolf Join Date: Apr 2004 Posts: 786 Downloads: 254 Uploads: 0	Should I transfer from Brisbane and go to Aleution Islands base?? I really am starting to hate this boat, lol I need some anti-aircraft guns

10-02-10, 10:31 PM	#30
Armistead Rear Admiral Join Date: Dec 2008 Location: on the Dan Posts: 10,880 Downloads: 364 Uploads: 0	No doubt it's a cheat, we know history. The real cheat is to look in the mission editor itself, something I've never done. I actually find it fun to study maps such as the ones I've shown. For one, why Lurker reworked a lot of stuff, he certainly couldn't get to it all. Also, why knowing may get you close, doesn't mean you will find it. I've sat in areas for days where historical stuff happened and found nothing. Take the battle I just finished. I picked a good cut off point where the Hiryu and Soryu should be returning, just a guess. I found them, but in reality they should've been heading north, instead they were going south. Possible this is part of the stock setup and not RSRD. Took my 57 miles to do an end around but got them both. Now a quick refit to Darwin and will try to hit the big carrier force before it makes it to the Indian Ocean. Here again, I've looked for the TF in several places where it made it's foray into the indian ocean, but never found it. Maybe Lurker did or didn't, that's why I don't look. I find that part of the fun. For sure I've played RSRD long enough I could find about anything, but lately looking for other things. What's really amazing about RSRD is lurker got the ship types down to almost perfection, often even the correct amount of DD's. I think what would make a good mod is to forget historics and do a total redo of traffic..Let's assume the JP's take Midway. Then you could set up traffic to attack Pearl, ect...Just totally rescript the battles so we wouldn't know, then we would be on fair ground as look as you don't peek at the ME. I've worked on some of this traffic doing singles, just a lot of work to do a campaign.