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PT Boat Behavior - 3/6/2003 7:56:43 AM

HawaiiFive-O

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I've noticed a couple of peculiarities with my PT boats, and was curious if anyone had an explanation. I'd like to be able to predict what they are going to do, because otherwise I might put them into position to get whacked.

1) Even when set to Retirement Allowed, they will not retire. They remain in the hex I sent them to, and the next day I have to order them back to port. They remain in the hex overnight even if the target is equal to or less than 8 hexes, i.e. they should have plenty of fuel to zip there, and get back. But they don't.

2) My PT TFs like to split themselves up. I typically have them in 12 boat TFs, and every couple of days or so they'll split into 2 groups of 6. I don't know what would happen if I left them alone again, perhaps they'd rearrange into 4 groups of 3?

Any ideas on what might be causing this behavior? Is it normal, IOW PTs don't retire and naturally seek to be in 6 boat TFs? I looked through the manual but could not find anything that explained this stuff. I might have missed it though.