[FAdmiral]

I am now in a Type 7B and it is Nov. 1940. Base is Lorient.
I am on my 8th patrol and I have been very careful and lucky
so far. I only attack merchants with excorts in 130 meters or
more. I patrol mainly in BF13 because the activity there is
very good. Lone merchants heading NE to England and lots
of convoys heading WSW away from England. All are British.
See many patroling DD's too but no planes as of yet. Maybe
in 41 when the bigger aircraft come available. My last convoy
sighted was 16 merchants with 4 escorts. I only had 1 torp
left so I just got close enought to sight them & sent a contact
message. Not risking 4 escorts after me for firing 1 eel (being
my usual smart self) As I was skirting around the starboard
rear escort (4 stacker), I had him sighted so I could monitor his movements. Suddenly he increased speed from the usual
patroling 10 kt up to 20, then 25, then30, then 35 (flank).
I thought for sure he had seen me but the distance was increasing, not decreasing. He was heading south back to the
convoy. Now the only reason I can think of for him to do that was
an attack on the convoy!! Had my contact message produced
some kind of abstracted results??? Very Interesting Indeed !!!
This was the first time in all the patrols I sent a contact message.
Is there another element working in this game? I'm sure none
of the mods did this or the modders would have mentioned it.
I use patch 1.4b and RUB 1.41 and the rest are just tiny mods
for visual purposes only. I have NEVER witnessed a DD go to
flank and stay there unless he was after me??? This one stayed
at 35 kts. for a good 5 min before he slowed to 20 kt and
changed course to SSW as he got near the merchants....


JIM