Reporting a convoy?

RedMenace · 10-29-12, 11:55 PM

I'm running TMO and just noticed that I've never had the "need" to use the "report contacts/convoy" button.

Anyone know what it's useful for? Even when I do run into a small-medium convoy and report it all they tell me to do is attack it. Is there some way to get air support or something with the radio?

fireftr18 · 10-30-12, 06:51 AM

All you're going to get is that message or a message to "break off at your discretion."

BigWalleye · 10-30-12, 09:22 AM

If you report major warships, you get an "Attaboy" message from ComSubPac. That's like wetting your pants in a dark suit: You get a warm feeling, but no one else notices.

CCIP · 10-30-12, 09:49 AM

Well you do get objectives, like "sink merchants" or "sink warships" occasionally, and if you fulfill them, you will get points. That's the only effect it has on gameplay.

On the other hand, the game also factors radio traffic into the odds of airplanes appearing. I think this works for both friendly and enemy units - send a radio report, and you are more likely to be attacked by enemy planes (if they're in range), but are also more likely to have friendly air units show up to help (if they're in range).

Armistead · 10-30-12, 01:10 PM

To report a group, your sub AI must gain visual contact of it. The danger of that is you often have to get close enough that the enemy sees you as well, plus you have to be on the surface to radio the contact. Sometimes you can lock on long enough to ID ships yourself and be able to report it.

10-29-12, 11:55 PM	#1
RedMenace Chief Join Date: Sep 2006 Posts: 319 Downloads: 5 Uploads: 0	Reporting a convoy? I'm running TMO and just noticed that I've never had the "need" to use the "report contacts/convoy" button. Anyone know what it's useful for? Even when I do run into a small-medium convoy and report it all they tell me to do is attack it. Is there some way to get air support or something with the radio? __________________ Last edited by RedMenace; 10-30-12 at 01:49 AM.

10-30-12, 06:51 AM	#2
fireftr18 Ocean Warrior Join Date: Feb 2010 Location: Kentucky Posts: 2,528 Downloads: 77 Uploads: 0	All you're going to get is that message or a message to "break off at your discretion." __________________ Of all the forms of Martial Arts, Karaoke causes the most pain!

10-30-12, 09:49 AM	#4
CCIP Navy Seal Join Date: Apr 2005 Location: Waterloo, Canada Posts: 8,700 Downloads: 29 Uploads: 2	Well you do get objectives, like "sink merchants" or "sink warships" occasionally, and if you fulfill them, you will get points. That's the only effect it has on gameplay. On the other hand, the game also factors radio traffic into the odds of airplanes appearing. I think this works for both friendly and enemy units - send a radio report, and you are more likely to be attacked by enemy planes (if they're in range), but are also more likely to have friendly air units show up to help (if they're in range). __________________ There are only forty people in the world and five of them are hamburgers. -Don Van Vliet (aka Captain Beefheart)

10-30-12, 09:22 AM	#3
BigWalleye Sea Lord Join Date: Jul 2012 Location: On the Eye-lond, mon! Posts: 1,987 Downloads: 465 Uploads: 0	If you report major warships, you get an "Attaboy" message from ComSubPac. That's like wetting your pants in a dark suit: You get a warm feeling, but no one else notices.

10-30-12, 01:10 PM	#5
Armistead Rear Admiral Join Date: Dec 2008 Location: on the Dan Posts: 10,880 Downloads: 364 Uploads: 0	To report a group, your sub AI must gain visual contact of it. The danger of that is you often have to get close enough that the enemy sees you as well, plus you have to be on the surface to radio the contact. Sometimes you can lock on long enough to ID ships yourself and be able to report it.