In GWX in an early career i have had my skin saved in the North sea when i was being fired at by a destroyer at long range... fired off a contact report through the radio man and crash dived... after the DD made a few near miss depth charge runs i noticed 4 bombers approaching... "wonderful - he brought friends" i thought.
on closer inspection (i was using external camera at the time) i discovered that these were in fact condor bombers. they dived on him and dropped several bombs sinking him.
thus i escaped certain death in the shallows of the north sea by firing off a quick contact report.
on another occasion i was in a Type II long ago... no deck gun and had used my last torpedo on a large merchant... he wasnt sinking and i had no way of bringing him down, called in the report and stuka dive bombers made short work of him... and i still got credit for the sinking!
i think in stock SH3 contact reports do little for you...
but i have noticed recently that i have been sending contact reports in the atlantic near the azores and have seen on more than one occasion 4 german U-boats come patrolling out of nowhere in search of convoys... they never found the convoy, but at least they made an effort!
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