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Originally Posted by Stiebler
That would be both useful to the player and completely realistic - U-boats did make signals to say they had gained contact. (How else would BdU know when to signal the attack should start?).
Stiebler.
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Not exactly, BDU could collect a group of wolfpack, by daily position reports of all u-boats. After the very first u-boat spots a convoy it has to send course,speed and current location of the convoy as well as approximet number of ships. Then BDU announces which u-boats are the participants of the wolfpack, BDU sets an interception point and time (by given info of shadowing u-boat) so that the farest u-boat could reach it in time before the whole battle begins. Adjustmens of the interception point changed if the convoy changed it's course, self explanatory. If any u-boat could not make it in time to reach the point (due to technical problems or so) it had to report this to BDU.
Note: There was no order from BDU to attack now or not now, but there was approximent time and location where the massacre should start.