Radio contacts

[troopie]

Interesting conversation that reminds me of an oft' faced conundrum (for daft skippers like myself anyway). When in the throws of conducting a patrol (i.e. in an asigned grid) and alerted to reachable contacts, how should I prioritise?

Any historical input on this?

I mean, when following orders to patrol said area for said amount of time, if I take off to the next grid to chase a suspected merchy, am I breaking orders? Am I to assume there may be a grander plan and BDU has things under controll? Is there another U-boat patroling that grid, trying to take care of it? Or should I just seize "every opertunity to launch torpedoes" and just try to rack up any tonnage I can find?

I know this has little bearing on how game/mission pans out, but I often wonder.