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ORIGINAL: bklooste

FatR expereinces are iMHO more normal esp with dud torps, i dont understand how you can get so many hits in the DEI as these shoudl be well escorted troop convoys ( and he should have some naval search up unless he is suicidal) though you can get lucky with some war ships.  Supply and resources convoys dont really move through there till later.

If you go by the 1 ship in 11 days  you get 100 or so ships in the war .  As this is reduced by the fact these subs will be attritioned  and not all subs are from Manilla i think 100 or so ships is right.

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ORIGINAL: Nikademus

LOL. On turn 2 of my new GC mod test.....the AI just hit Enterprise at max range using 111 x B5N's. (and bombs) Ent is badly damaged and burning out of control. May lose her. Thought i'd waypointed her out of the way enough but apparantly i was wrong. That dastardly AI is an AWESOME opponent. Acomplished what a dozen PBEM opponents could'nt achieve [:D]

I DEMAND A RESTART!

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ORIGINAL: Speedy

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ORIGINAL: bklooste

FatR expereinces are iMHO more normal esp with dud torps, i dont understand how you can get so many hits in the DEI as these shoudl be well escorted troop convoys ( and he should have some naval search up unless he is suicidal) though you can get lucky with some war ships.  Supply and resources convoys dont really move through there till later.

If you go by the 1 ship in 11 days  you get 100 or so ships in the war .  As this is reduced by the fact these subs will be attritioned  and not all subs are from Manilla i think 100 or so ships is right.

I have to disagree to an extent....at least in terms of it depends on the deployment of those Manila subs and the reaction of the Japanese opponent. Not blowing my trumpet here but I'm generally pretty good with subs IMO and as an example from my current PBEM here's the ships totals due to subs so far to give you the other end of the spectrum view. Of course this is with the SRA sub force as a whole. This is by the end of April 1942:

Sub kills:

Dutch Boats:

AK - 16
CM - 2
PB - 1
DMS - 3
TB - 1
APD - 1
DD - 2
TK - 2

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British Boats:

DD - 1 (mine)
SC - 1
TK - 1

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Fleet Boats:

AP - 1
AK - 24
CM - 1
DD - 2
E - 1

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S-Boats:

AK - 5
CM - 1

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ORIGINAL: herwin


Based at Truk or Rabaul?

The Japanese did do that early in the real campaign. Attrition eventually saw them off.