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Old 01-24-08, 02:03 PM   #10
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Originally Posted by Rockin Robbins
Yeah, wolfpack attacks with captains on Teamspeak would be really unrealistic as American wolfpacks seldom spoke on radio outside of arranging a rendezvous point for the evening. They were too paranoid about radio direction finding, knowing the number of U-Boats killed in that manner. Our wolfpacks were just ways of putting multiple subs in a smaller patrol area without having them kill each other.
That was one of the fun parts of multi-play with SH2/DC. The destroyers could communicate with each other. The u-boats could as well, but only when surfaced, and then the destroyers had a good chance of intercepting the message.

Of course this wasn't teamspeak, but typed messages.
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