When you send a contact report, have you recived support from air or sea????

[Mush Martin]

Sure you can get help but you have to be
operating in an area covered by an axis
base of some type

(with the exception of if your playing as an
allied unit then the inverse is true)

in order to see the coverage
open the mission or campaign folder
under Lnd mis and look at the
bases each naval and air base
have an area of coverage highlighted
by a circle that you can vary the
size of in properties.

M

[Checkmate King 2]

Originally Posted by Mush Martin

in order to see the coverage
open the mission or campaign folder
under Lnd mis and look at the
bases each naval and air base
have an area of coverage highlighted
by a circle that you can vary the
size of in properties.

M

I'm sorry, but I am having trouble understanding you instructions on how to find out about the air coverage.

[froschman]

I did some missions north of Norway, resupplying in Bergen. Somewhere I had seen a radius for air support, I cannot remember now how much. With this radius I drew a circle around Narvik, and then I did patrol in this area. When meeting a convoy, I did report it, and often the Luftwaffe did appear and attack the convoys.

If it was while running basic SHIII 1.4b, or some of the early GW versions I cannot say.

[Redbear]

I haven't ever gotten air support. I'll keep sending reports and hope I can get Herr Goring on a good day! I'd like to see it at least once.

[KeptinCranky]

The Black Sea is also a good place to see friendly planes doing their thing, seen Romanian bombers attacking russian convoys repeatedly

[Checkmate King 2]

If you are lucky enough to get air support:

Do you have to worry about your gunners shooting at friendly planes?

Since you now have friendly planes attacking the enemy, can enemy planes show up to help defend their ships by attacking the axis planes and you if you are on the surface?

[BulSoldier]

I once attacked unintendetly (spelling?) a pair of stukas near norway but i undestood my mistake early enough.
About the second,no idea.

[KeptinCranky]

They definitely attack you!

This was back in stock, but i was engaging a C3 with my deckgun off Hartlepool and 2 hurricanes showed, so I took those out too.

In GWX, if a convoy gets attacked, by you, and I'd imagine by axis planes too (I can't personally confirm this), if a plane is in the area it will come to assist the escorts and drop bombs, strafe and generally make a right nuisance of itself

[Mush Martin]

Ok

its open the mission editor
then go to open
file

go to C/Program/Files/Ubisoft/shIII/Data/Campaign (or mission)
then in campaign open the lnd file

or in missions
just open the appropriate mission
folder

just click on the base and its got a
glowing circle about as described
before this circle represents the
perimiter of the bases detection
and patrol limits.
M

[sasquatch]

I always report contacts between 39-41, and have never seen a single Axis plane. I normally patrol just under the coast of Ireland.

[sasquatch]

Originally Posted by Mush Martin

Ok

its open the mission editor
then go to open
file

go to C/Program/Files/Ubisoft/shIII/Data/Campaign (or mission)
then in campaign open the lnd file

or in missions
just open the appropriate mission
folder

just click on the base and its got a
glowing circle about as described
before this circle represents the
perimiter of the bases detection
and patrol limits.
M

I'm not finding any Ind files under the above path. Are you talking about 'Campaign_LND.mis'?

[siber]

Following contact reports in the past, I've noticed that other German subs are spawned to join the pursuit. However, the move so slowly an on the surface that unless the convoy's moving at less than 4kts, they'll never catch up.

And then, if they do, assuming that AI subs won't submerge or fire torpedos, they'll get cut to pieces by the escorts...

Planes; I've seen nothing of the Luftwaffe in an offensive role. Ever.

[Jimbuna]

Originally Posted by siber

Following contact reports in the past, I've noticed that other German subs are spawned to join the pursuit. However, the move so slowly an on the surface that unless the convoy's moving at less than 4kts, they'll never catch up.

And then, if they do, assuming that AI subs won't submerge or fire torpedos, they'll get cut to pieces by the escorts...

Planes; I've seen nothing of the Luftwaffe in an offensive role. Ever.

That is not always the case...I have come across convoys on many occasions where the escorts are down to only 2 or 3 vessels because of an earlier altication with AI subs.