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Originally Posted by pbar1469

Hi all.
Sorry for posting out of the FOTRSU thread, but for some reason I keep getting http error 500.

So, I'm on my third patrol out of Pearl, in my Tambor, I was sent to Marshall Is for 5 days, but no contacts. Then off to another position in the Marshall as well, and then given free reign to patrol.
Given that Truk was close by, and I previously did a nice incursion to Dublon port, decided to check out the area around.

Somewhere near the southern end of the island, start getting lot of warship contacts, some fast, some slow. Checked out a task group of sub chasers, but decided against it. Then detected a lone warship.
Upon slow approach, I find this Akikaze class, stopped, just there...

Decided to engage, and given that was stationary, it was an easy kill.
Assumed that it might have engine problems or something.

As soon as it sinks, immediately got two more contacts.
Also warships. Also stationary!
That was too weird, but went and scoped them.
I could not believe it!
Escort Carrier Akitsu class and Auxiliary Tender Jingei class...

Now, obviously I could NOT ignore this. Xmas came too early, or maybe too late?

So, question is, why were they just standing there? No escorts, nothing!
Is this something historical that I happened to bump into?
Or is it some issue with the Campaign scripts?

I've dreamed of bagging my first carrier, but... maybe not like this?
Still, awesome feeling!

Thanks

Pedro

P.S.: Tried to add a screenshot with more info, but for some reason, doesn't show. Date of encounter is May, 23, 1942, Location is Long 151 21 E, Lat 7 07 N (destroyer), and Long 151 27 E, Lat 7 11 N for the big boys.

I don't know why you would get that error in the FotRSU thread, but not get it here, since it is all the same site and same 'security'... but oh well...

In the meantime, seeing as you are not in the anchorage itself with where your sunk ship icons are, can you tell me what their headings were when you encountered them, please? Was there any movement at all from any of the ships in the area, besides the Hunter/Killer Group? (Those can be nasty, btw.) I have been looking at this all morning while doing other edits, and I cannot find any groups with those two ships in them together. The Akikaze is in the "Frigate" group, and usually is associated with harbors and "light" escort duties of small convoys. The Akitsu and tender would generally be part of a task force, and would have DD as escorts. There are a few Convoys that do have a seaplane tender, and later-war, some have a CVE or CVL, on a small percentage chance, but most of those are over by China and Formosa to Japanese waters. If you can give those ships' headings, that would really help, although I am not finding anything like them "parked" at Truk. We did have issues on the east side of the atoll last year, where a hunter/killer group would spawn facing north, and after spawning, the group would head south out of the atoll, but to make that "turn", the group went through a group of "parked" ships ("docked"), and that would "bump" the ships to where they would be stopped just east of the reef east of Dubion. Took forever to find that... this would be similar...

However, just to be certain, which version of the mod are you using? Any mods added to that? When you went to activate the mod(s), was your game installed outside of any of the Windows "Program Files" folders? After you activated the mod, did you then make certain that the "Read-only" attribute on the SH4.exe file was "off", and that LAA or 4Gig Patch were properly applied? Also after activation, did you empty the Save folder (or build a new MultiSH4 folder), such that the mod was then cleanly, properly activated and fully applied to the SH4 game? Were there other ships besides the three you describe that were standing still? Thanks