Hit by shell, destroyed by secondary explosion?

[Keelbuster]

I was somewhere in the Carribean when I spotted a medium tanker. It was moving fast, and it going to be hard to flank it and get into firing position without being seen. Since it was a clear day, I decided to chase it down and destroy it with my deck gun. As I approached, the tanker opened up on me with a rear gun. As usual, the shots were all over the place and I wasn't worried. But he was moving fast, and I was gaining slowly, so he got a _lot_ of shots in. Finally, one hit. With a terrible surprise, there was a BAM, fire on my screen and the sound of men screaming in pain. A shell had hit the conning tower. As the fire left my screen I had that sinking feeling - when you've taken a foolish risk and been burned. I switched to F7 to check the damage. Watch tower crew was dead. Wait - what's that - suddenly the control room team is dead. A second later, the crew in the radio room and crew quarters are dead. My boat is lost! I don't know exactly what happened, but I suspect that the shell hit the tower, killed those crew, then caused a secondary explosion much like you often see when you shell enemy ships. The secondary explosion killed the control room crew, and then spread through the boat to each end like a rolling fireball. Burn. I didn't know that enemy shells could cause your boat to brew up like that. In the future I'm going to be _way_ more careful around enemy guns.

[Kaleu_Mihoo]

no, this is a known bug.
When your conning tower is destroyed and the watch crew is dead, SHIII tries to man it automatically, just how it is done when U surface the boat. And because there is no conning tower, they all die by an automatic try to man it :down:
hope it helps
regards

[Corsair]

Don't mess around with armed merchants, it's not a glorious way to loose your sub..:D

[Brag]

When surprise is gone, a U-Boat loses all its advantages

[STEED]

When surprise is gone, a U-Boat loses all its advantages

Time to :ping: :ping: :ping: :ping: your pants.

[Keelbuster]

no, this is a known bug.
When your conning tower is destroyed and the watch crew is dead, SHIII tries to man it automatically, just how it is done when U surface the boat. And because there is no conning tower, they all die by an automatic try to man it :down:
hope it helps
regards
ARg - a bug. I had this image of fire belching down the conning tower and into the control room...igniting fuel stores and blasting down the compartments. It was a hideous and glorious image. From the surface, a little flash, then a burst of flame cracking the boat in half and then it surges down into a pool of fire. I've now replaced that with the image of men running up the conning tower and suddenly dying..one after another...until there are no more. I hate to admit it, but I think you're right - i remember now that my death message was 'not enough crew to man the boat'. Arg.:nope:

[GoldenRivet]

you could always pretend it was the first version :)

I suppose if you dont have anyone in any crew compartments when you decide to run down an armed tanker ie - they are all assigned to repair detail or in engine/ torpedo rooms they wont go clammering upthe ladder to auto death.