Was trapped between three strike forces hunting me down and couldn't decipher their messages. At that point, I could either retreat and hope I could hide, advance blindly into the fight, or stumble around trying to decipher their comms. When I was unable to decipher their messages, I decided to commit to the fight since I was low on fuel and retreat would likely be impossible. At the last second, I received a message from the last known direction of a transport fleet I had encountered previously. I had marked down their name on the map and realized that it was the same length as the message sender field. Adjusted the cipher to match their name and cracked the code. Was then able to read the strike force messages detailing their movements. That let me prefire cruise missiles into their path and take them down one at a time in much more manageable fights. Without that code break, I would've been outnumbered and destroyed.

10/10 will ELINT again

Was trapped between three strike forces hunting me down and couldn't decipher their messages. At that point, I could either retreat and hope I could hide, advance blindly into the fight, or stumble around trying to decipher their comms. When I was unable to decipher their messages, I decided to commit to the fight since I was low on fuel and retreat would likely be impossible. At the last second, I received a message from the last known direction of a transport fleet I had encountered previously. I had marked down their name on the map and realized that it was the same length as the message sender field. Adjusted the cipher to match their name and cracked the code. Was then able to read the strike force messages detailing their movements. That let me prefire cruise missiles into their path and take them down one at a time in much more manageable fights. Without that code break, I would've been outnumbered and destroyed. 10/10 will ELINT again