1. It's 70km around the east coast of England, it's 250km in the open Atlantic later on.
2. Nope. The patrol objectives are just for renown.
3. Nope, engage at will! In some cases it might even complete the patrol objective.
4. Single merchant contacts just appear, they don't list a time or anything. Radio contacts appear as well, but you get a message box message for them. TheDarkWraith has managed to time stamp ALL contacts, even the single merchant ones in his UI mod. Otherwise you have no way of telling when they appeared, so therefore where they are "now".
5. Yup, the "extras" are probably single merchants.
6. Yup, the radio report was just a "in this area" type report, so not a specific location.
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