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AngronIsAngry · 01-07-09, 09:02 AM

In the messages tab of the log, you can send a status report and a contact report while being surfaced.

Contact Reports will only work when you have sighted a convoy and visual contact to at least 2 merchants (exception to this are convoys of guarded passenger liners, there you only need to see the liner). This will tell HQ about the convoy and is usually netted with an objective to destroy either escorts or merchants (if you have but a handful of torpedoes, you'll get order to Break contact and Return to Base[RtB]).

Status Reports can be made anytime on the surface and transmit your number of left torpedoes, numbers of ship sunk and tonnage total and your position. When you have completed your current (patrol, deploy, recon, delivery) objective, send a status report to get a new one.

You can only send either kind of report with a certain time delay (I believe it is around 3 hours ingame time). While sending the reports have to be done on the surface, receiving the answers from HQ can be done underwater.
Also note that sending reports increases the probability of hostile air patrols on your position.

Hope that helped

01-07-09, 09:02 AM	#3
AngronIsAngry Mate Join Date: Dec 2008 Posts: 53 Downloads: 42 Uploads: 0	In the messages tab of the log, you can send a status report and a contact report while being surfaced. Contact Reports will only work when you have sighted a convoy and visual contact to at least 2 merchants (exception to this are convoys of guarded passenger liners, there you only need to see the liner). This will tell HQ about the convoy and is usually netted with an objective to destroy either escorts or merchants (if you have but a handful of torpedoes, you'll get order to Break contact and Return to Base[RtB]). Status Reports can be made anytime on the surface and transmit your number of left torpedoes, numbers of ship sunk and tonnage total and your position. When you have completed your current (patrol, deploy, recon, delivery) objective, send a status report to get a new one. You can only send either kind of report with a certain time delay (I believe it is around 3 hours ingame time). While sending the reports have to be done on the surface, receiving the answers from HQ can be done underwater. Also note that sending reports increases the probability of hostile air patrols on your position. Hope that helped __________________ "No Boom?" "No Boom, today. Maybe Boom tomorrow. Things always go Boom!"