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Originally Posted by propbeanie
... and that would be another potential cause of the bad spawn... the group cannot "breathe", and they're trying to avoid each other... though my suspect group is spaced at over 800m  - we have seen this quite a bit throughout all of SH4, where a group, no matter how it is arranged, each vessel attempts to get to the waypoint location, and they gradually close together... like ignoring dates, the game does ignore spacings... |
Ahoy, propbeanie...
Ok, following up on My post #2858
The reported group, consisting of a Task Force, as roughly outlined in said referenced post, was run into on or around in game date: 20/03/43 @ Long 126 52 E by Lat 22 58 N.
As outlined in My initial report on them... Was able to rerun into them.. can only assume, that somehow I either ran into a scripted battlegroup... or somehow in saving, just prior to getting a radar report of them... managed to 'lock' them in to that save... dunno which, but...
As reported previously... upon attack, 1/2 of the group, came to a dead stop, 25% of group, made to continue on to make a run for it... mostly merchies, from what I could tell of.. the remaining 25% comprised of the escorts (DD/DE's... milled about making an effort to locate Me. I managed to avoid most of them, did have 1 string of depth charges being dropped nearby.. an took some relatively minor slap & tickle damage... nothing that lit up red in the damage assessment section.
Last run in, before I had a brown out, ruin the 1st attempt to attack per radio orders after sending in a contact report...I managed to put the Kongo in the group, in the hurt locker... sunk a Takao cruiser.... an damaged a escort.. bad enough its props were gone.
This go around, managed to damage the bow of the Kongo... (1 out of 4 torps, hit...) Sank the Takao cruiser (yet again... yay Me..
) & sunk an escort instead of leaving it DitW... as it is now... managed to evade being located & have given them the slip. As it is, saved after surfacing, upon clearing the baffles & ensuring no enemy was nearby.. air or surface wise.
Am making for base.. & sinking anything else.. is going to be dependent on 1 'Cutie' torp.. an what I got in the stores of deck gun ammo only. All I can say is...
Wish Me luck.. I got a long way to go & a short time to get there... I'm east bound, loaded up (on air) & truckin'.. just watch ol' bandit run...
end report...
M. M.
