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Originally Posted by michaeljcaboose9
Hello, first post on here but I had a question for something I haven't been able to find searching the forums and Google. Do AI subs ever attack when I send contact reports? I've had subs come and say and look like they are attacking but have yet to see them do anything.
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I have the same doubt, it happens to me frequently in the campaign in the Mediterranean, when I send a contact report regarding a convoy, then the BdU responds to me:
"BdU 1/21/1942 7:43 AM
From:Bdu
To:U-69
"Remain undetected and continue following contact/convoyAvailable submarines are heading to your patrol area"
A couple of hours after this message, messages like this one begin to be received from one or more allied submarines:
"1/21/1942 9:29 AM
From:U-357
To:U-69
"Requesting bearing signal from contact keeper"
Another variant of the previous message is when other submarines arrive indicating that they will attack from the port or starboard vector.
However, here I no longer know if it is pure rhetoric of the message, or I really have to send them the bearing again, which I do by sending a new contact report, but without much effect, since these allied submarines disappear after this message, I suppose ( I want to believe) that they submerge, but I have never witnessed an actual attack by AI submarines.
What I have actually witnessed is aviation attacks against the convoy, a few hours after the contact report. (In the Mediterranean, not in the Atlantic), I suppose that for this there must be an air base within the range.