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Originally Posted by Captain Krunch
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Originally Posted by Capt. D
However - if I am to understand we will be given "special" missions - how could functionality not be add to the game if the Captain is given an Ultra Message by his radio operator - in the radio room - and then proceeds to his Captains Quarters to unlock his safe and take out the code book for Ultras and actually de-code the message from Comsubpac to learn what his new orders were.
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Just a slight correction to this, as I believe it was usually the XO or communications officer who decoded the encrypted message, not the captain. The captain was usually a pretty busy guy, so many of these types of tasks were delegated down to the other officers. Heck, even the writing of the patrol report was usually done primarily by the XO. |
It was my understanding - though I may be wrong - that Ultra messages were given to the Captain to decode as these were a code within a code and only he had the information to decode that type of mesage. More for the security of the Ultra code then anything else. Now that said, there may have been Captains who gave that information to their XOs to use so they did not have to. Bottom line - whether in the Capts Quarters or Wardroom - the ability to get the code to use with an Ultra message and decode it would definately add to the game. As mentioned further in this thread the addition of a "real" conning tower with all the equipment is a major plus!
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