[suggestion] Radio signal triangulation

[defumak]

Hi!

As you know, a weak point of Wolfpacks was the constant radio communication, which was captured and triangulated by the enemies.

Also, the U-boats has to transmit their communication every day at 6 a.m. (IIRC)

When a mission is being executed, sometimes we need to send communication, as a ship sank, or convoy found. A radio transmission could be used the detect the sub position by the Allies and send reinforcements.

[Kanonenfutter]

good idea, i will vote for that +1

[chksix]

+1

[Ruby]

+1

For this some conditions on the map are necessary!

Cheers Ruby

[76561198991535062]

Originally posted by defumak:

Hi!

As you know, a weak point of Wolfpacks was the constant radio communication, which was captured and triangulated by the enemies.

Also, the U-boats has to transmit their communication every day at 6 a.m. (IIRC)

When a mission is being executed, sometimes we need to send communication, as a ship sank, or convoy found. A radio transmission could be used the detect the sub position by the Allies and send reinforcements.

Hi, thanks for that.

As the devs said, Allies already can capture radio communication of a player or other u-boats so yes, you need to be cautious with that or send a raport in port. Also, there is a plan to implement the option of handing a raport in a paper form in the port instead of sending it.

[defumak]

Thanks for your quick reply!

[wolf310ii]

Originally posted by defumak:

Also, the U-boats has to transmit their communication every day at 6 a.m. (IIRC)

No, the u-boats had not to transmit every day at a fix time, thats the worst thing you could do, the germans did know how to triangulate radio signals too.
U-boats send only if they have something to send, anytime they want.
The BdU send to specific times twice a day (so the u-boats know when to listen), but listens to transmissions 24/7.
Even if the BdU calls a u-boat, they gave them a time window, like "U-123 send weather between 1am-5am".

On a convoy, only the leading u-boat send "constantly" short signals.

[defumak]

Thanks for sharing this information!