[IronOutlaw]

Sehr Geehrt Kameraden!

There is one important aspect of Wolfpacks that many seem to misunderstand. Individual U-boats within a Pack rarely, if ever, communicated with each other except when a boat transmitted a homing beacon upon sighting a convoy.

Ideally, each boat would be directed to a particular area in a Partol Line by B.d.U. in the hope that one of them would pick up the convoy that B.d.U. anticipated in the region usually from signals intelligence from B-Dienst. Once one boat sighted the convoy, it would transmit the beacon, until of course due to DF'ing, it became a serious hazard to do so.

Later in the war boats would pick up on a sighted convoy by monitoring the sighting report transmitted from the particular boat that sighted the convoy. Sometimes they were able to join in, sometimes not.

Each boat, when it also sighted the convoy would report the fact to B.d.U.. B.d.U. would then give permission to engage the convoy once a sufficient number of boats reported in.

It must be remembered that U-boat transmissions used the Enigma cipher system, something which was quite a laborious task, particularly if the message had to be double enciphered. Enigma machines are freely available on the net along with the protocols to use it if you want to try.

So, hopefully Ubisoft can insert AI boats forming a Wolfpack, of which the player's boat is one, since Ubisoft is already inserting the convoy and the radio transmissions to and from B.d.U. anyway.

Incidentally, the B.d.U. KTB is also available on line. If you want U-boat KTB's you need to go to Freiburg im Bresgau and photocopy them like I did.

Hope all that makes sense.