Contact Report Accuracies

btaft · 05-14-07, 12:27 PM

I was just wondering if anyone had a reference of what a typical contact report received by a submarine would consist of. Right now the tail on the map is dead-on accurate. Would the report just give a general cardinal direction (i.e. N, S NNW, etc) or would it give a position and heading (i.e. course 170) with an expected accuracy (i.e. +/- 10 deg). Just curious more than anything and drawing the bulls-eye line just isn't much fun

Fish40 · 05-14-07, 02:45 PM

I would imagine that real life contact reports would give similar general info. as in the game. If a convoy, ect. was spotted either by another sub or aircraft, the current position, heading, and speed would to the best of their ability, be relayed to HQ. or known nearby units.

tater · 05-14-07, 02:50 PM

Using mcoca's excellent tool, it has become possible to instantly change large numbers of waypoints in the campaign layers to have the ships zig-zag. Once that is in place, the tail on the contact could be entirely wrong assuming the contact report generates an instantaneous heading.

Of course any decent contact report would be a guess at the base course, not the heading when observed, OTOH, there are simply way way too many contact reports.

05-14-07, 12:27 PM	#1
btaft Soundman Join Date: Apr 2005 Posts: 147 Downloads: 18 Uploads: 0	Contact Report Accuracies I was just wondering if anyone had a reference of what a typical contact report received by a submarine would consist of. Right now the tail on the map is dead-on accurate. Would the report just give a general cardinal direction (i.e. N, S NNW, etc) or would it give a position and heading (i.e. course 170) with an expected accuracy (i.e. +/- 10 deg). Just curious more than anything and drawing the bulls-eye line just isn't much fun

05-14-07, 02:45 PM	#2
Fish40 The Old Man Join Date: Aug 2006 Location: Yonkers, NY U.S.A. Posts: 1,507 Downloads: 154 Uploads: 0	I would imagine that real life contact reports would give similar general info. as in the game. If a convoy, ect. was spotted either by another sub or aircraft, the current position, heading, and speed would to the best of their ability, be relayed to HQ. or known nearby units.

05-14-07, 02:50 PM	#3
tater Navy Seal Join Date: Mar 2007 Location: New Mexico, USA Posts: 9,023 Downloads: 8 Uploads: 2	Using mcoca's excellent tool, it has become possible to instantly change large numbers of waypoints in the campaign layers to have the ships zig-zag. Once that is in place, the tail on the contact could be entirely wrong assuming the contact report generates an instantaneous heading. Of course any decent contact report would be a guess at the base course, not the heading when observed, OTOH, there are simply way way too many contact reports.