Hello John,
Yes, I have the hsie patch installed. In a previous patrol I had also tracked a convoy and gave BdU regular updates. I've also twice seen air attacks on the convoys I reported and once I am sure the pack had attacked, since by the time I got my attack in, several ships of the convoy were damaged and some were missing. It is a neat feature of the hsie patch, as you no longer feel you are quite so alone as regular SH3. So far, I have once received the order that all was ready and to attack. In my current patrol I had tracked the convoy all night and just before dawn was still getting orders to attack. As the convoy seemed to only have a front and rear escort the beams were open. I moved in and attacked, in spite of orders, sinking a large freighter and tanker as described, above. I am getting ready now to load the saved game where I am astern of the convoy, far enough away not to create [I hope!] any saved game reload crashes due to saving too close to enemy ships. I did have that experience once a few years ago where I reloaded a saved game where I was very close to the enemy. I am still close enough to regain contact and report it again. A few times I have also been told to go it alone as there were no U-boats nearby to make a pack.
I do have a question for those with experience of A.I. wolfpacks; do you at any point see the attacking boats themselves, or their effects as they attack a convoy?
I have a few times seen enemy submarines sailing on the surface. Once off the coast of Scotland I saw a submarine flying an American flag, so I left it alone. I thought it rather strange to see an American flagged sub so far east in 1940. I also saw a Soviet sub near the Swedish coast when I was on my "Erprobungs" patrol in a new career. I fired two electric torpedoes at it but missed.
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