View Full Version : Heavy seas and the bridge watch?
MarkShot
05-28-07, 05:00 PM
The graphics show heavy seas sweeping over the bridge. So, do you leave your watch up there or do you cancel the watch? If you cancel the watch do you still run on the surface? Do you raise your scope to have some spotting? Or do you dive and wait out the storm submerged?
Thanks.
Iron Budokan
05-28-07, 05:04 PM
I leave my men up there until they are weak as kittens and being thrashed about on their safety lines. I don't care about their safety. I care about results. And if they complain about it I've got a Luger in my cabin that will persuade them otherwise....
Some sailors say my u-boat resembles a charnel house the way I run things. But I call it home.
MarkShot
05-28-07, 05:08 PM
I can tell that the Party doesn't need to include a political officer among your crew. :)
Iron Budokan
05-28-07, 05:14 PM
LOL! Good point.... :up:
Hakahura
05-28-07, 05:34 PM
[quote=Iron Budokan]I leave my men up there until they are weak as kittens and being thrashed about on their safety lines. I don't care about their safety. I care about results. And if they complain about it I've got a Luger in my cabin that will persuade them otherwise....
I like the sound of this officer, he can be my 2ic anytime
Telgriff
05-28-07, 05:38 PM
Depends on my mood. If I need to get some air back into the tanks, then I will send some up to test their underwater breathing skills. Iron Budokan has the right idea...though I prefer the threat of keel hauling to help with the morale of my crew :arrgh!:
When it gets really bad, I submerge and use the hydrophones, but if you try that, don't run for too long underwater, or when you do actually find something, you'll have no juice left in your batteries for an engagement.
If any of my crew complain about having to stand a bridge watch, well, they shouldn't have joined should they? and in any case, at least they escape the smell of the bilge and can have a cigarette, always assuming they can light it in a force ten gale :rotfl:
:D Chock
Kaleu. Jochen Mohr
05-28-07, 06:15 PM
my crew stands on the bridge for days... in good or bad weather...
they dont dare to complain becouse i already shot one of them
Hakahura
05-28-07, 06:24 PM
Jochen Mohr you shot one of them?
Expending your Luger on Bernard does not count!
Telgriff
05-28-07, 06:56 PM
Jochen Mohr you shot one of them?
Expending your Luger on Bernard does not count! Exactly... Bernard is immortal..like Homer Simpson, but less enjoyable and no fun to be around.
Kaleu. Jochen Mohr
05-28-07, 07:04 PM
Jochen Mohr you shot one of them?
Expending your Luger on Bernard does not count! Exactly... Bernard is immortal..like Homer Simpson, but less enjoyable and no fun to be around.
if i can remember good it wasnt a bernard or dinsdale... i gues it was a Johan :hmm:
he was complaining about the harbour raids. gave short orders then..
"surface,watch crew and Johan on bridge" took my luger and fired...
then continued to scapa flow
Jimbuna
05-29-07, 03:51 AM
The graphics show heavy seas sweeping over the bridge. So, do you leave your watch up there or do you cancel the watch? If you cancel the watch do you still run on the surface? Do you raise your scope to have some spotting? Or do you dive and wait out the storm submerged?
Thanks.
Back to your question :arrgh!:
When on the surface you must have at least one crewman on watch...the game gives you no choice :nope:
A storm generally means an accompanying loss or drop in visibility, so you are probably better off submerging at say 2 knots and listening with your hydrophones :up:
danurve
05-29-07, 11:42 AM
I train my watch crew to hold their breath.
Then again I like the Luger idea.
robj250
05-29-07, 11:57 AM
Jochen Mohr you shot one of them?
Expending your Luger on Bernard does not count! Exactly... Bernard is immortal..like Homer Simpson, but less enjoyable and no fun to be around.
if i can remember good it wasnt a bernard or dinsdale... i gues it was a Johan :hmm:
he was complaining about the harbour raids. gave short orders then..
"surface,watch crew and Johan on bridge" took my luger and fired...
then continued to scapa flow
My Luger is strapped to my side at all times and if one of the crew complains, they get the "wet Watch" until they are darn tired drenched, then I help them sleep it off? Then they can join the dolphins.
Kaleu. Jochen Mohr
06-12-07, 06:51 AM
Jochen Mohr you shot one of them?
Expending your Luger on Bernard does not count! Exactly... Bernard is immortal..like Homer Simpson, but less enjoyable and no fun to be around.
if i can remember good it wasnt a bernard or dinsdale... i gues it was a Johan :hmm:
he was complaining about the harbour raids. gave short orders then..
"surface,watch crew and Johan on bridge" took my luger and fired...
then continued to scapa flow
My Luger is strapped to my side at all times and if one of the crew complains, they get the "wet Watch" until they are darn tired drenched, then I help them sleep it off? Then they can join the dolphins.
i do the same... only im a bit trigger happy :nope:... guess they better put my in the wehrmacht...
I don't need no Luger on my crew! In heavy seas and rain you can't do anything either way except holding on hard to something steady or being rammed by a Zurstorer...
"Chief take us to 25 meters and make turns for 1 (or 3) knots" depending on if we're in transit or hunting.
Than I can lay down in my "cabin" and get some sleep finally.
Canovaro
06-12-07, 08:43 AM
I bad weather I go to PD and wait it out. :)
Jimbuna
06-12-07, 10:23 AM
@2knots submerged you should be able to sit it out for most of a day...the only limitation will probably be the build up of Co2 :hmm:
I leave my men up there until they are weak as kittens and being thrashed about on their safety lines. I don't care about their safety. I care about results. And if they complain about it I've got a Luger in my cabin that will persuade them otherwise....
My crew are so hard they don't want there rain gear on and the reason. They tell me the storm will be over in five days time so they don't give a toss. Veteran Crews are the best crews none of that wet behind the ears nappy wearing crew for me, no sir. :smug: :smug: :smug:
Jimbuna
06-12-07, 11:01 AM
I leave my men up there until they are weak as kittens and being thrashed about on their safety lines. I don't care about their safety. I care about results. And if they complain about it I've got a Luger in my cabin that will persuade them otherwise....
My crew are so hard they don't want there rain gear on and the reason. They tell me the storm will be over in five days time so they don't give a toss. Veteran Crews are the best crews none of that wet behind the ears nappy wearing crew for me, no sir. :smug: :smug: :smug:
What you mean is your using 'no weather guns' ;) :lol:
Sailor Steve
06-12-07, 11:05 AM
[quote=Iron Budokan]II like the sound of this officer, he can be my 2ic anytime
Paraphrasing Top Gun: "No, you can be MY second..."
In real life a watch was kept any time the ship was on the surface. One u-boat had the entire watch crew washed overboard. Since the hatch was shut against the weather they didn't know about it until the next watch went topside to relieve them.
Kaleu. Jochen Mohr
06-12-07, 11:42 AM
[quote=Iron Budokan]II like the sound of this officer, he can be my 2ic anytime
Paraphrasing Top Gun: "No, you can be MY second..."
In real life a watch was kept any time the ship was on the surface. One u-boat had the entire watch crew washed overboard. Since the hatch was shut against the weather they didn't know about it until the next watch went topside to relieve them.
:rotfl: :rotfl: :rotfl:
and they were like
"herr kaleun... we got a problem"
captain: "and that is ?"
watch: "we lost the watch crew"
captain: "good... they were bernards anyway"
srry i couldnt resist
I bad weather I go to PD and wait it out. :)
Are you running the Weather Mod? Doing this in the stock version will result in a low battery and low O2.
The reason I'm asking is that I just installed the weather mod and have yet to try it out.
Also, have you noticed that if a storm comes in and you havent changed the watch, the watch is still up there with no foul weather gear. Keeping them up in that mess with that gear is truly sadistic! ;)
Jimbuna
06-12-07, 02:58 PM
[quote=Iron Budokan]II like the sound of this officer, he can be my 2ic anytime
Paraphrasing Top Gun: "No, you can be MY second..."
In real life a watch was kept any time the ship was on the surface. One u-boat had the entire watch crew washed overboard. Since the hatch was shut against the weather they didn't know about it until the next watch went topside to relieve them.
U-106 :yep:
http://uboat.net/boats/u106.htm
Ubċtskapten
06-12-07, 03:18 PM
[quote=Iron Budokan]II like the sound of this officer, he can be my 2ic anytime Paraphrasing Top Gun: "No, you can be MY second..."
In real life a watch was kept any time the ship was on the surface. One u-boat had the entire watch crew washed overboard. Since the hatch was shut against the weather they didn't know about it until the next watch went topside to relieve them.
:rotfl: :rotfl: :rotfl:
and they were like
"herr kaleun... we got a problem"
captain: "and that is ?"
watch: "we lost the watch crew"
captain: "good... they were bernards anyway"
srry i couldnt resist :rotfl::rotfl::rotfl:
The way to get rid of Bernards, lock them up on die brücke in a storm!
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