What is the point of status reports?

[Fidd]

What function, if any, are they supposed to serve? I run vanilla sh3, and all they seem to do is say "be more aggressive" or "well done" or "rtb". They never seem to draw in air units, or other subs or anything else - what's the point of them?

[Tijn]

I believe it had somthing to do with an never implanted function in wich BDU would send you new orders if you where ready with your original orders.

But i can be wrong...


Grtz Tijn

[AVGWarhawk]

@Tijn probably true.

When all your torpedos are expended and you send a report BDU will tell you to go to port. Reporting contacts alerts the Luftwaffen and other uboats in the vicinity that could help (GWX). Other than that, not much else happens with it.

[fredbass]

I'm not certain, but I think I read where the allies can possibly here your sent messages depending on where you are and what time of year.

[Abd_von_Mumit]

Originally Posted by fredbass

I'm not certain, but I think I read where the allies can possibly here your sent messages depending on where you are and what time of year.

Because of that I _always_ change my course and speed immediately after sending any radio message. But I keep sending them, even if it's no use, as I would do in real u-boot as a real kaleun — realism has high priority here.

[AVGWarhawk]

Originally Posted by Abd_von_Mumit

Because of that I _always_ change my course and speed immediately after sending any radio message. But I keep sending them, even if it's no use, as I would do in real u-boot as a real kaleun — realism has high priority here.

I do the same Mumit. After I sink one I send a message and haul butt out of there just in case someone other than BDU is listening!

[mookiemookie]

Sending radio messages does indeed have a chance of drawing Allied units to your position (simulating huff duff). On more than one occasion I've had DD's come steaming directly towards me after sending a radio message. Sending contact reports has a chance of prompting an Axis air strike, if you're within range of an Axis air base.

Sending patrol reports doesn't really do anything. I send them anyways to role play position and status reports being sent to BdU, and I pretend not to know about HF/DF just like the real Kaleuns didn't.

[irish1958]

BDU required the boats to send in periodic reports (?daily), in spite of the fact that the Gestapo used the triangulation technique to locate clandestine radio of the resistance. BDU apparently didn't think this worked at sea, but it did.