Mommy ! I want my mommy !

[SteamWake]

Take a look and you can say... yea... your screwed :oops:

10 points to the first poster that tells me why.

http://i259.photobucket.com/albums/hh312/UlteriorModem/Mommy.jpg

[Will-Rommel]

Thats what happens to the US submariners thinking they can match the german hard nuts! They don't have the expert mechanician! :rotfl:

Now all you have left are your tied up underwears and wind propulsion...! :arrgh!:

[SteamWake]

Thats what happens to the US submariners thinking they can match the german hard nuts! They don't have the expert mechanician! :rotfl:

Now all you have left are your tied up underwears and wind propulsion...! :arrgh!:


Mmmmm very close... but i'm afraid you have the wrong nation.

[AlphaSvn]

Look at the bright side.........at least you stopped the flooding.:lol:

[cgjimeneza]

On the plus side, you have half your power plant an rudders...

on the down side, you lost HALF your power plant

better make a big sail and hpe your periscope shears can take the strain...

its a long and slow way home buddy

[seaniam81]

Ship sighted and you cant dive

[peabody]

The ice cream machine is empty? Did I win? I really need the points.:know:

I would rather get sunk than lose the engines or the rudder.

Peabody

[elanaiba]

You lost the engines that matter ;)

[SteamWake]

Good answers I espically liked the empty ice cream maker... :rotfl: :rotfl:

Yes all manners of propulsion gone, done, toasted, beyond repair. Carrer over.

A DD did this to me in shallow water when we stuiply 'investigated' a port with only one picket :doh:

Played cat and mouse for a couple of hours, he even ran me over once with horiible shreaking and groaning. Only damage there was the batteries ?! :roll: But I digress.

Later he got lucky and wrecked my boat. Then the dummy crossed our stern at 600 yards, perfect range for a snap shot.... Kabooom he split in two. I cheered ordered surface and ahead full.

Well we surfaced allright, and just sat there. I went to the damage screen for a damage report. Thats when our hearts sank. :oops:

[Seminole]

Too late to help you my friend but I think I may have discovered the "secret" ....if there truly is one..to doing ports.

The last 3 recon missions I got I didn't actually go directly into port. That is either suicide or at least a couple of hours of drudgery,slipping and sliding along the shallows.

I've found that you can take your boat in very close to a port by easing up to it from outside , submerged, and parallel to the land mass. Most times while staying at least in the light blue shaded sea areas which are usually a couple of hundred feet deep..and avoid the white shaded shallows.

Anyway it has worked for me 3 times in a row. I got excellent views of the harbors each time and the ships at anchor...and avoided any hostile vessels...it was like peacetime steaming.

But it does go without saying that this way kills all the suspense of harbor misisons or just crusing and looking....and maybe that is what one wants after all...but if you want to play it safe...:yep:

[Rockin Robbins]

Sounds like you can swim to shore.http://i196.photobucket.com/albums/aa293/RockinRobbins13/smileys/3d-paranoid.gif

[SteamWake]

I dunno slipping into an enemy port while surfaced just seems wrong.

In this case I was on one of those "sink 10 tons" missions and had been sailing up and down the coast looking for merchant shipping. We had found one small tanker but were reaching bingo fuel quickly and decided that raiding this harbor would be an 'easy' way to up the tonnage.

Cant remember the port but its completly surrounded by shallow water with no deep approaches whatsoever.

With only one picket out there it dident seem to risky :rotfl: :huh: :dead:

Sounds like you can swim to shore.

Swim... pfffft we could practially walk to shore.

Maybe we can steal some of the life rafts the DD left floating around !

[bookworm_020]

Well I guess the engine crew get first shift rowing you home!:D

[Zero Niner]

I don't understand. The damage screen shows 2 engines and electric motors each damaged (or is it destroyed?). You still have 2 more of each.

[SteamWake]

I don't understand. The damage screen shows 2 engines and electric motors each damaged (or is it destroyed?). You still have 2 more of each.

Just one of the goofy things in this game.

Even though you have 4 engines, the game engine considers them as two.

Get two of em... any two... wiped out its game over. :damn:

The full red bars illustrate they are beyond repair.

[Zero Niner]

Ah, I see. I didn't know that. Thanks for the clarification.

I guess I don't get the 10 points? :D

[swdw]

I don't understand. The damage screen shows 2 engines and electric motors each damaged (or is it destroyed?). You still have 2 more of each.
Just one of the goofy things in this game.

Even though you have 4 engines, the game engine considers them as two.

Get two of em... any two... wiped out its game over. :damn:

The full red bars illustrate they are beyond repair.
Well, In actuality, here's your real problem- both electric engines are out. The boat is driven by the electrical engines. The diesels do NOT drive the shafts directly, they run generators that run the electric motors and or charge the batteries.

So- if you lose both electrics, but still have the diesels- you ain't going nowhere as the motors that drive the props- the electric ones, are shot.:yep:

That's what elanaiba meant when he said you lost the engines that matter- he wasn't talking about the diesels.;)

Well at least you have 2 diesels left to power the rest of the electrical system, so you can still have ice cream while you drift with the current.:D

[SteamWake]

Well at least you have 2 diesels left to power the rest of the electrical system, so you can still have ice cream while you drift with the current.:D

Maybe so in real life but in the game its been my experience that if you lose both electrics your still okay, lose both diesels and your screwed.

You can go a little ways on the electrics but without the diesels to recharge the batteries its a short trip.

In real life you should be able to at least move and manuver with only one engine / motor running. In the pic I still had two diesels and two electrics supposedly in operating condition. However we could not move. :oops:

[swdw]

I dunno, looks like the red bars on the electrics are maxed out???

[SteamWake]

I dunno, looks like the red bars on the electrics are maxed out???

Yea two out of the 4 motors are trashed. Which 'should' leave me with two :damn: