Weird Convoy Behaviour | Forums

[Nick_Toznost]

I've just installed a fresh, unmodded version of SH3 (after a bad mod conflict I had before) and I'm at patrol no 6, march 1941. I came across a convoy in the Irish sea. Looking through the periscope I noticed that 1 of the ships, a C2, was on fire. When I looked at the torpedo computer room I noticed the ships were scattered, in pretty much the fashion on your screenshot.

Believe me, they are seriously hard to hit when like that, moving around in all different directions, I shot 4 torps at a T3 and missed every time, it was rotating in circles.

My presumption is that either this is some kind of (effective) defence manouvre or a bug in the original game.

As I said unmodded, it's happened to me, but only once.

[Fekin_Von_dEtRi]

I have had Hurricanes and other planes crashing into eachother a couple of time too.

[Chrystine]

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At the same time, I do think all these little anomalies make SH III more interesting and a richer experience on the whole.
SH III is like a box of chocolates…

Best,
~ C.

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[W.Irving]

Ever been to Scapa Flow in the wake of a big storm?
The islands are usually littered with burning Swordfish. I'll show you a few screenies when I get home. There are little bonfires everywhere!
And this in vanilla SHIII.

[Kaleun1961]

I've never seen anything like this before. What has me suspecting it is the mod is that I came across the exact same convoy on my next patrol, same configuration, same behaviour. I bailed on it, abandoned the career and uninstalled the mod.

[RaifalM3n]

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[Kaleun1961]

Originally posted by TheRealWulfmann:
Open the RND.mis file in the campaign folder. Scroll down to RND group 61, the first convoy. See what the spacing is. If it is 400 change it to 500.
At 400, the ships go crazy at waypoints. They will still have realignment problems at 500 or higher, but not ridiculous as with 400.

Another way to do this faster is when you open the RND, click edit, scroll to “findâ€Â�. This will open a box, copy the RND Group 1 into that box, then change the 1 to 61 and click “find nextâ€Â�. After looking at 61, change to 62 and click “find nextâ€Â�. Do this through RND Group 118 which is all the convoys and change the distances to 500 or 600 (What I did). The farther the distance, the farther the escorts are away. At 800-900 they will not bother you at all even if you reload in the middle of a burning convoy. I want them to act more like, I don’t know, ESCORTS!!!!

Wulfmann

Last night I did what you suggested, manually changing any references that were at 400 to 600. I did this while I was in the process of attacking a convoy that was all messed up from trying to keep station at 400. As soon as I loaded the new file, set at 600, they all began to sort themselves out. This is definitely what was causing the problem.

While attacking this convoy, I penetrated into the middle of the columns and began to attack. Out front was a destroyer which seemed to be in some form of distress, perhaps from the storm. I was tempted to attack it, as it was doing only 2 knots and was heeled over to one side. I ignored it and proceeded with my attack on a T3 tanker. The destroyer sank on its own.

I proceeded to reload and sink several ships in the convoy. This convoy had 8 escorts, but at no time did they make contact with me. One of them dropped a few depth charges at some distance from me, but nowhere close to me to cause any worries. I even ran at high speed at periscope depth, occasionally my conning tower broaching, but still not one escort came into the convoy columns to hunt for me. I think this is not only unrealistic, but it also is unchallenging, so I am going to manually adjust all the convoys down to 500 and see what difference this makes.