Decks Awash

[ddiplock]

How do you set the game to allow you to run decks awash?? My watch crew always go inside when I order the boat down so I can't stay up on the bridge.

Is there a config file I need to alter somwhere?

Cheers guys :)

[melnibonian]

There is no file or order in-game for this. Just set your depth to 6-7m and you should be able to hide most of your boat under the water without considered submerged for the game engine.

[ddiplock]

There is no file or order in-game for this. Just set your depth to 6-7m and you should be able to hide most of your boat under the water without considered submerged for the game engine.


Ah right, i wasn't aware about that. I thought u had to alter a config file somewhere to allow you to run with decks awash :)

[Ford Prefect]

You'll find it depends on the uboat type, some you can go no deeper than 7 metres before it counts as submerged and the crew leave the bridge. Usually the bigger subs go to about 8 metres. This can be changed in a config file but its fine as is.

[KNomad]

I just started playing, and one of the mods I starting using is called something to the effect of 'Decks Awash & Fuel Economy' mod. It sets the periscope depth of Type IIs to where the conning tower stays submerged in rough weather, sets the 'Ahead One Third' command to the subs optimal fuel economy speed, and allows you to run decks awash by hitting the 'snorkel depth' key.

http://www.subsim.com/radioroom/downloads.php?do=file&id=1183

[Ford Prefect]

I just started playing, and one of the mods I starting using is called something to the effect of 'Decks Awash & Fuel Economy' mod. It sets the periscope depth of Type IIs to where the conning tower stays submerged in rough weather, sets the 'Ahead One Third' command to the subs optimal fuel economy speed, and allows you to run decks awash by hitting the 'snorkel depth' key.

http://www.subsim.com/radioroom/downloads.php?do=file&id=1183

Thats all well and good till late what when you get a snorkel though!

[ltforce]

To my knowledge setting your depth to 7-8m and keeping the crew on the bridge only works in GWX....if you do it in the stock game the bridge will not be accessible. So get GWX3.0 and you will be set.

[java`s revenge]

I do use a deckawash mod for the VIIB

[Jimbuna]

You can also go into the CFG file for the U-boat and adjust the Surface Depth setting.

[Wreford-Brown]

Thats all well and good till late what when you get a snorkel though!

When you get the snorkel you disable the mod (read the Readme)!

[Ford Prefect]

When you get the snorkel you disable the mod (read the Readme)!

Yeah but it would just be better to create a new command, mapped to another key, then there's no need to lose the mod when you get a snorkel!

[Rhodes]

Yeah but it would just be better to create a new command, mapped to another key, then there's no need to lose the mod when you get a snorkel!

But when you get the snorkel, being at surface or with deck awash are not good for the health of the crew and boat!

[meduza]

But when you get the snorkel, being at surface or with deck awash are not good for the health of the crew and boat!
The same can be said for snorkel, at least untill you install the RWR on it. :DL

[Rhodes]

The same can be said for snorkel, at least untill you install the RWR on it. :DL

Exactly! ;) :ping:

[Ford Prefect]

Historically, post 1942 many Uboat commanders prefered to surface during the day (in mid ocean) as they could at least see their airborn enemy coming. This is both good and bad in many ways but it beats being found being a near silent plane in the dead of night via radar and the first thing you know about it is when a 24 million candle power lamp lights your boat up like a christmas tree!

The snorkel only allowed a boat to recharge below the surface or to move at a crawl (loudly due to the diesels) and in rough seas the one way valve on the top slamming shut caused hell for the crew as the engines drew cabin air.

All in all I'd prefer to run decks awash with a good watch crew and get advance warning of an enemy so I might avoid them than to get bombed out of the blue.

[PavelKirilovich]

Because the AI are too stupid (thankfully) to use Allied surface-search radar doctrine, I only use the snorkel to recharge batteries when I am running in littoral waters, for instance exfiltrating a harbour I've just attacked.

If the AI did as RCAF crews (at least, I believe RAF, RAAF, and USN/USAAF crews also did this) did and search, then shut off the radar when you get a contact, manouevre onto contact bearing, and flick it on/off intermittently to confirm target track (once acquired; e.g. you know it's there, you can perform periodic checks without too much hassle), I'd be screwed. The RWR operator only seems to notice that we've been spiked by a radar once it's been illuminating me for five to ten seconds. Quick two or three second searches would let the patrol bird come close and smack me about the head soundly.