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10-30-07, 06:28 PM | #1 |
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Where Can I find the Yamato?
Hi all,
It is 1944, In my entire career I have only met the Yamato once. I have been looking all over, I see a task force on the screen, run it down and it winds up being four cans and 2 damn merchants, some task force. I really want to find the Yamato, where would be the best spots to find the ole Yam Toe? I have been in and out of the shipping lanes and even went into some ports but no luck. Can anyone help? Thanks. |
10-30-07, 07:32 PM | #2 |
Let's Sink Sumptin' !
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Realistically she should be tough to find. There were only two: Yamato and her sister Musashi...unless you count the stillborn Shinano. Plus, the real Yamato spent most of 1943 swinging idly at anchor in Truk Lagoon. She really didn't start seeing a lot of fleet combat action until 1944. If you do come across her consider yourself lucky.
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10-30-07, 07:45 PM | #3 |
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Thanks for the help torp. I guess that one time when I got a glimpse and let 4 go is probably the last , although I hope not.
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10-30-07, 07:54 PM | #4 |
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Here's a site that lists most of the movements of the Yamato thoughout her ill-starred career.
http://www.battleshipyamato.info/battles.html Looks like the only US subs which had brushes with her were the Skate, Harder, Halibut, Batfish, Darter and Dace, and the Threadfish. Apparently, she was such a high prestige target/oil hog that the Japanese didn't like moving her about anymore than they had too.
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10-30-07, 09:26 PM | #5 |
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There is a 6 part documentary on u-tube that is all about the Yamato it was quite interesting.
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10-30-07, 11:09 PM | #6 |
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In the game I've come across two juicy task forces in a single career. One was in 1942 just outside of Surabaya and contained a Yamato, a Fuso, and an Ise-class along with 4 or 5 cruisers and 4 or 5 destroyers. The other was a Taiho-centered task force and that was near Manila in late '43 or early '44. Think there was a Hiryu-class or two in there also.
I don't know about other players, but this is one area where I think the game does pretty well. It's good to run into occasional opportunities to sink a "pride-of-the-fleet" target, but it's also good that it doesn't happen on every patrol. It's an appropriately rare thing in the game - or has been for me. This is also true of other things like landing forces or troop ships. This career I haven't seen one single troop ship - last career I ran into 2 or 3.
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10-30-07, 11:19 PM | #7 |
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I've seen the 6 part video, amazing. Thanks for the link, the picture never loaded up though.
Today I was out patrolling when I spotted an allied task force and was steaming right along with the North Carolina. I followed them quite a distance hoping they were gonna turn for enemy territory, (AI ships do a good job of avoiding collisions with you and each other) but they took a turn for home, so I broke off and went up to my objective. I have some shots of the task force I was steaming with, just have to motivate myself to convert them to JPG's host them on image shack and then put them up here somewhere. |
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07-13-24, 04:37 PM | #9 |
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... respnding to a thread after 17 years is certainly the very epitomy of occasionalness!
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09-05-24, 10:06 AM | #10 |
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Late October 1944 I have run into them northeast of Samar on their way to attack Taffy 3. around Oct 25th I believe.
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