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Originally Posted by dcb
I got the strong impression that this is true. If you're positioned atop the conning tower, amidst the watch crew (F4 screen), when ships are sighted, you'll see that each crewman, the first time he sees a new ship, raises his arm as he was pointing to the ship's direction. Each time this occurs, you can hear the Watch Officer announcing "Schiff gesichtet". So, my understanding is that he also reports sightings by other watchmen.
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hi dcb,
yes, I discovered the same behaviour. that would be perfect for me!!! but unfortunately I discovered that not all ships are reported acoustically by the WA. some ships only are reported my an text message, which I perhaps could overlook. It's not important for me that every ship of a convoy is reported. One ship of a convoy is enough for me to be warned. The rest of the convoy I'll be able to detect by myself. But new contacts which come from different directions into detection range must be reported acoustically and immediately so that I am warned.
In the next days I'll make some test-scenarios, for example:
A) 4 fast-moving single destroyers are coming from 4 different directions into detection range. Will the WA report all 4 ships? How long is the time lag between the detection by a watchman an the report by the WA??
B) same as above at different weather conditions (fog/night)...
c) What happens if planes are detected?
This will be an interesting weekend.
Hi OLC,
thanks for the kind words! If the mod works, an english version will follow, of course.....
h.sie