Hello...
Yes. Yes, here is reason to have many escorts. A goodly number of escorts can scare the submarine skipper away or spot submarine first and allow the escorts to attack before the submarine can get into position for a shot.
Typically, you can expect the following:
Fast Transport TF: Up to one or two escorts will attack and unload one or two patterns, while other ships escape. Code assumes these folk have some where go and are in a hurry.
Air Combat TF, Surface TF, Bombardment TF: Up to one or two escorts will attack and unload up to one half ASW ordinance, while other ships escape. Code assumes these folks have some where to go.
Anti-submarine TF: Up to three or four escorts will attack and unload at least one half, up to all ASW ordinance. Code assumes these folk have no where important to go and will tarry.
Other TF: Up to two or three escorts will attack and unload between one pattern and all ASW ordinance. Code assumes these folk have somewhere to go, but leave escorts to pin submarine for long while, other ships escape. Will never use more than one half escorts, as others stay with main body.
Escorts with more ASW weapons and ammunition, a more aggressive skipper with a higher naval skill are more likely to engage in the attack.
This was the Malaria code request (quicker than looking up the code):
Malaria Zones
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- The malaria zone does not encompass the bases of Aru Island (hex 39,80)
and Timoeka (hex 45,81). I believe that both of these bases should be
malarial bases.
- The malaria zone encompasses the base of Norfolk Island (hex 60,119).
This island is not tropical - pine tress grow there - and I believe
that it should not be in the malaria zone.
- The following Australian bases are hard coded to be malarial:
Wyndham (base 757)
Derby (base 758)
Broome (base 759)
Cooktown (base 770)
Cairns (base 771)
Thursday Island (base 738)
I believe that none of these bases should be malarial.
- On my map, Ponape (base 688) is in the malarial zone because it is
in a different hex than on the official map. If this base is added
to the malarial exclusion list that won't be the case. This would
not affect the official scenarios. This request is just asking for
a favour.
Weather Zones
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- Along the Northern part of the map, there is a gap in the cold weather
zone, in hex columns 86 (rows 1 to 34) to 88 (rows 1 to 34) inclusive.
- The southern cold zone, which covers the bottom of New Zealand,
extends across the entire map. This is not a big deal on the official
map, but for my alternative map it means that this zone extends
quite close to the Society Islands (Tahiti). For my map it would be
better for the zone to stop somewhere to the East of New Zealand.
This would not affect the official map in any way. This request is
asking for another favour.
ORIGINAL: Damien Thorn
Malaria zones have been slightly modified. Includes requested changes for CHS maps.
10) Anti-submarine attack routines have been rewritten. Now, seldom will more than 4 ASW vessels normally attack a submarine during a single phase. Number of attacking ships depends on task force type, ships types and lots of skill rolls. Instead of each ship making one or two attacks, they may now sometimes continue to attack until out of ASW ammunition. Number of attacks made depend on task force type, ships types and lots of skill rolls. Hits are now deadly much less often, usually doing a point or two of system damage and or occasionally a point or so of flood damage. I don't know if they are still around, but a while back there were some players screaming for this change. Just got to it. Long list of code requests.
What changes were made to the Malaria zones? Once you posted the malaria code. Can you post the revised code so we can see the changes?
Does #10 mean there is no point in having more than 4 ASW ships in a task force now? Are certain ships more likely to engange subs than others (i.e. DD vs DMS)?
