What's the point of calling in contacts?

[dcb]

Originally Posted by irish1958

I called in a contact report in the Med, and four Romanian bombers responded and pounded it. They also took out the destroyer escorts and allowed me to bag three vessels. It was like watching a movie of a bomber attack on a convoy.

Romanian bombers in the Med? No way. They only operated in the Black Sea. If there really were Romanian planes, please GWX team, for the sake of realism, remove them in the next installment.

Now, coming to the original topic, there is at least one benefit of reporting convoys. You get their speed from the report.

[bigboywooly]

Originally Posted by dcb

Romanian bombers in the Med? No way. They only operated in the Black Sea. If there really were Romanian planes, please GWX team, for the sake of realism, remove them in the next installment.

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There are no Romanian aircraft in the Med
I imagine they flew from bases close to the Med ( From Romania or Bulgaria ) in the engagement posted above

The game will send aircraft from bases in range
Whether realistic or not

[Rwolf]

Sometimes close to the UK main ports, I've called in reporting a convoy, and then left it alone (out of torps), only to soon run into another convoy heading in the opposite direction; the limit of calling a convoy position only once every 12hrs, makes reporting the second convoy impossible. (Have to follow the new convoy until the timer expires, then report it)

When such reports have been followed up by german air attacks, these seem to come from the west (UK), if I'm on the east coast of Britain. I suspect Luftwaffe has a secret base somewhere around Dover...

[Jimbuna]

Originally Posted by Rwolf

Sometimes close to the UK main ports, I've called in reporting a convoy, and then left it alone (out of torps), only to soon run into another convoy heading in the opposite direction; the limit of calling a convoy position only once every 12hrs, makes reporting the second convoy impossible. (Have to follow the new convoy until the timer expires, then report it)

When such reports have been followed up by german air attacks, these seem to come from the west (UK), if I'm on the east coast of Britain. I suspect Luftwaffe has a secret base somewhere around Dover...

Don't let everyone in on the secret

[svenks]

Hi all,
Well occasionally I've had BdU give me a 'well done' for at contact report. However, I'm pretty sure you must have a target visually locked for this to happen. This might easily put you in harm's way

BRGDS
Sven
(yes, I'm still around - but I've just discovered World of Warcraft...)

EDIT: Thank godnesss I'm rid of the medic avatar

[dcb]

Originally Posted by svenks

Well occasionally I've had BdU give me a 'well done' for at contact report. However, I'm pretty sure you must have a target visually locked for this to happen. This might easily put you in harm's way

The 'well done' comes when you successfully report a convoy. You know the convoy report was sent when you see it at the bottom of your message log (M key) - something like "Large/medium/small convoy, heading ... speed..."
You can send this kind of message only when several merchants of the convoy get reported by the watch crew - the "schiff gesichtet" message. I usually wait for at least 5-6 ships to be sighted and then send the message, which is followed by a "well done" from BdU after a few hours.