Do you always report a convoy?

[SteamWake]

Originally Posted by tater

Actually, you can only make a report inside 4500m. I never make them, so I'm not sure, do you have to be surfaced, too? That's insanely close, regardless.

yes you have to be surfaced... Funny thing is you will get a reply regardless of depth

I don't normally send a sighting report for convoys...maybe 'cos I hardly ever see them. If we had some bonus renown or somthing for making the effort then I would do so more often

[SteamWake]

Originally Posted by Goose_green

I don't normally send a sighting report for convoys...maybe 'cos I hardly ever see them. If we had some bonus renown or somthing for making the effort then I would do so more often

Yes you get brownie points for reporting them.

Catch is sometimes they will tell you to attack, and well you just cant, so then you lose brownie points.

Ive had best luck by attacking them first, then as they slip away (as they always seem to do) then report them.

But thats just a 'game' thing.

[<Jason>]

noob question:

how do you report a sighting?

[ncorpuz34]

Originally Posted by <Jason>

noob question:

how do you report a sighting?

Scroll up to Peabody's post (#24)

Originally Posted by SteamWake

Yes you get brownie points for reporting them.

Catch is sometimes they will tell you to attack, and well you just cant, so then you lose brownie points.

Ive had best luck by attacking them first, then as they slip away (as they always seem to do) then report them.

But thats just a 'game' thing.

I didn't realise you got brownie points for reporting in Is it extra renown? Or a polite reply from the brass to go kick some butt?

[Rockin Robbins]

Originally Posted by Goose_green

I didn't realise you got brownie points for reporting in Is it extra renown? Or a polite reply from the brass to go kick some butt?

http://www.subsim.com/radioroom/show...90&postcount=3

Originally Posted by Rockin Robbins

http://www.subsim.com/radioroom/show...90&postcount=3

How do you know that you gain extra renown?

[aanker]

Originally Posted by Goose_green

How do you know that you gain extra renown?

Open:
Data\Campaigns\Campaign\DynamicMiss\ContactReport 01\ContactReport 01.mis - for example - with a plain text editor like Notepad.

See the line:
RenownAwarded=250 in the [Objective 1] section.

But like I said before, I don't report them for historical reasons - not to mention you're giving your position away etc, etc.

Happy Hunting!

Art

[breadcatcher101]

I remember reading somewhere back in WW2 about the policy at that time was to report first then attack. Only thing is, you would have to wait until the task force was gone before you would be able to report and by that time it was too late to attack.

Can't remember if it was Christie or Lookwood's policy, but there was a Japanese battleship group (or maybe carrier) that had sortied, we had a line of subs along it's suspected route and about everyone reported it! It was like a rash of Elvis sightings. Anyway no one was able to attack it so finally they gave the go ahead to attack first. By that time it was too late, it got away.

I am pretty sure I read of this in Clay Blair's book "Silent Victory".

[Ivan Putski]

I just had an incident on my 15th patrol, I was West of Okinawa when I was alerted to a single contact. Turned out to be a huge convoy, not a square marker on the map, but a huge rectangle. I tried to run around end, but the weather 15 meters would`nt allow me any headway. I was able to get a radio message off to ComPac, but was`nt able to catch up, and me with almost all my torps left. Puts Got 250 points renown for that one.

Originally Posted by aanker

Open:
Data\Campaigns\Campaign\DynamicMiss\ContactReport 01\ContactReport 01.mis - for example - with a plain text editor like Notepad.

See the line:
RenownAwarded=250 in the [Objective 1] section.

But like I said before, I don't report them for historical reasons - not to mention you're giving your position away etc, etc.

Happy Hunting!

Art

Thanks for your reply And your reasoning for not doing so is very sound To be honest, if I found a convoy I'd get stuck in before worrying about reporting in