Does sending a contact report do anything?

[mookiemookie]

Well? Has anyone noticed German air attacks or wolfpacks or ? as a result of a contact report sent in?

[Nisgeis]

Yes it does. I have seen the files...

** POTENTIAL SPOILER*

There is an increased chance of aerial attack and increased chance of detection. There also seems to be an increased chance of an allied interception / air attack, but this is based on the files that I have looked at actually being connected to the game and not some random left over that is a red herring.

I haven't seen anything about wolf pack behaviour - I think it's air that's tied to contact reports, but if a U-Boat 'happens along' then it will engage (I believe).

[Sunfighter]

I had a friendly warship show up on the contact map nearby, but it never engaged and just sorta spun in circles, I dont even know what kind of ship it was, never bothered to check out.

Could of been a coincidence, but considering i was pretty much in the river thames....not sure another german ship would of made its way up there..

[Turm]

Whilst fully loaded with all 14 torpedoes, I radioed in a convoy contact up near Scotland.

A few minutes later, I got a reply from BdU telling me to transfer to a new patrol area 400 miles to the south, and begin patrolling there!

Needless to say, I ignored that order temporarily and attacked the convoy!

[Noren]

...that would have been difficult to explain to the BdU when he reads your loggbook

[SabreHawk]

Well this could have been a fluke because as best I could tell the send contact report button looked to be non functional(appeared to be blacked out.) in the training mission.(Invasion of Poland).
But on the way back to Kiel, I ran across a lone polish merchant twice, I was able to sink the first one I caught, but the next one I stumbled on I only had the stern torpedo left, and weather was too rough for a deck gun attack. So I plugged him with the one torp I had, but wasn't enough to do the job, so I went and clicked on the contact report button anyway.
Then about 20 min. later a friendly aircraft showed up and attacked the merchant I'd torpedo'ed. Still wasnt enough to sink him though. Too bad the weather prevented a gun attack or I could have come home with 6 kills instead of the required 4.

"Damn this stinking weather" (Das Boot)

So im assuming the button worked, and being in the waters I was so close to home that the aircraft was a response to my report.

[Méo]

Originally Posted by Nisgeis

There is an increased chance of aerial attack and increased chance of detection. There also seems to be an increased chance of an allied interception / air attack, but this is based on the files that I have looked at actually being connected to the game and not some random left over that is a red herring.

I haven't seen anything about wolf pack behaviour - I think it's air that's tied to contact reports, but if a U-Boat 'happens along' then it will engage (I believe).

I really wonder if it will be moddable or if there will be an add-on for this.

Increased chance of attack isn't enough for me, what I want is a REAL ''coordinated'' surface attack from many U-boats when the night comes.

(I know it wasn't perfectly ''coordinated'')

For me this is of a critical importance for the game, it would be really a truly diffenrent experience from SH3 and it has not been mentioned since the release!!!

I want real Wolfpacks !!!

Who's with me!

A massed target then, should be attacked by massed U-boats.

- Dönitz