Another naval clarification...

General
#1

Hello,

I’ve never played a naval nation and have a queston regaring navy mouvment along rivers.

It appears to me that it is possible to move along a river basically on the hexes to the “right” or to the “left” of the river(or alternating at will). This means that a fleet trying to stop another fleet has a 50/50 chance of bumping into them. Somehow two fleets can sail the same river and actually not see eachother.

Is my understanding of game mechnics (and their rather unrealistic effects) correct?

#2

You are correct in your interpretation. The English term is “ships passing in the night” Think of Nelson’s fleet missing the French invasion fleet to Egypt in a dense fog. Or the northern Japanese Fleet, at Leyte Gulf, sailing right by the American picket submarines without being spotted.