calling in air strikes?

[HMCS]

I have yet to see this, but allegedly you can provoke an air strike by the Luftwaffe via contact report.

Has anyone had any success with this? How long does it usually take for the glamour boys in the Luftwaffe to turn up?

Thanks for any replies.

[Kaleu. Jochen Mohr]

they show up late when you need them.
and when you DONT need them they just ARE there

[Mooncatt]

to summon a air support all the contacts need to be visible either on ya map or my sight......which is hard to acheive without all hell breaking loose, also you need to remember what the axis air range is i.e no good trying this in the middle of the atlantic etc. if you do try this the best you will get is a couple of u-boats coming to back you up......but that can take days. i tried it once on a convoy, i ran out of torps and as i was heading away about 1 hour after the dds left me alone i bumbed into 2 VIIC subs trying to back me up!!!!! awesome, but i didnt stay around

[TarJak]

If you play in the Med it's realtively easy to call up air support. You just have to be able to get a contact report sent so that the nearest luftwaffe base can send over some aircraft. It can work on aircraft spotting as well however the selection of aircraft to send is dubious. I saw a Sunderland and a Stuka dogfighting once. Quite funny to watch for a while.

[GoldenRivet]

nearly anywhere in the north sea or off the coast of Norway you can get stukas or Condors to show up fairly quickly.

[Reverie]

Originally Posted by HMCS

I have yet to see this, but allegedly you can provoke an air strike by the Luftwaffe via contact report.

Has anyone had any success with this? How long does it usually take for the glamour boys in the Luftwaffe to turn up?

Thanks for any replies.

Going through this experience now, as a matter of fact. Well, then, that is April of 1940.
Moving north in the North Sea in a VIIB became verrry nerve wracking as air traffic was especially thick. But HEY, it's the Luftwaffe! I had to call off my gunner as the software doesn't distinguish between aerial friend and foe. What looked like three Junkers led me to some traffic. I bagged two small merchants, then surfaced to steal credit for a Large Merchant that had been strafed and bombed. Sank that one with just nine shells. Love those flyboys.
But now I'm hiding in a northern estuary after sending off a successful Contact Report, then sinking a Tribal. Lots of opportunities, but the Tribal had a mate. The starshells and searchlights are urgent. I expect the Luftwaffe after the storm overhead clears. No rain, but lightning and low ceiling.
I won't spoil it for you, only I will suggest you get involved with the Norway operation. Plenty of opportunities for force interaction. I forget to mention the two German Commerce Raiders I encountered coming up here. Brave lads.
Reverie

[Heibges]

If I am in a Type II in 1939 in the North Sea off the coast of England, can I call in airstrikes.

I have never seen one myself.

[Reverie]

Originally Posted by Heibges

If I am in a Type II in 1939 in the North Sea off the coast of England, can I call in airstrikes.

I have never seen one myself.

Off the coast of England ?
If you get on the wireless, all you're going to do is get popped
by a Fairey Swordfish or a Spitfire. Then a destroyer might come sniffing around.
Reverie

[ReM]

Off Norway I saw German planes attacking a few times.....even without sending a contact report....they even stole a kill once....

[papa_smurf]

Off Norway I saw German planes attacking a few times.....even without sending a contact report....they even stole a kill once....08-11-2007 07:22 AM

Similar thing happend to me - I ws off the south coast of Ireland in july 1940 hunting a lone large cargo, hit it with 2 torps, didn't sink so was about to finish it off with my deck gun. Next thing 2 condors come in and sink it!!

After this i gave Herr Goering a right earfull

[KeptinCranky]

worst I've had was about 200km west of Gibraltar, I get a plane spotted! turns out it's one of our Kondor's that's apparently way off course, so it freaked me out it was heading west outbound from Gibraltar as well so i assumed it was hostile, so i crashdived, for a friendly, I did get him to damage a merchie for me by radioing in not 20 minutes later, he turned around and bombed it for me

so if there's a plane or airbase close enough you can make them help you out, same goes for friendly ships, but that's a lot more work and takes a lot longer

Also in the Med near Italy it's easy to get air-support, but you always get more than you bargained for, have seen a bunch of stukas blow up a nice fat passenger liner that I was just about ready to shoot my eels at

Conversely if you sink anything elsewhere in the med it's usually no more than a few minutes before some sort of allied plane shows up, they're very reliable that way

[Heibges]

Originally Posted by Reverie

Off the coast of England ?
If you get on the wireless, all you're going to do is get popped
by a Fairey Swordfish or a Spitfire. Then a destroyer might come sniffing around.
Reverie

It would be totally worth it just to see the airstrike.
I really would just love to see one.

[Redbear]

I haven't seen it yet either. That's partly my fault, I guess. I never seem to remember to radio the contact in.

[Klaus_Doldinger]

In a "reenactment" patrol I made a few weeks ago (I arranged things to begin my patrol from Trondheim on August 11th, 1941, like the actual U-82) I spotted a small merchant off the coast of Norway, AF59. I didn´t need to request the Luftwaffe; suddenly several JU88s appeared and smashed it with bombs, and I finished it off with half a dozen 8,8 rounds. I don´t know which was the reason for a small merchat to sail so near of Norway in 1941.

[Heibges]

Has anyone called in an airstrike on a Murmansk Convoy?