Pure rip off!

[desirableroasted]

Dang it... I loaded out at W'haven with three steamers and the rest electrics. Used the steamers when appropriate, got better tonnage with the electrics (love em!).

Went into Corrientes with 4 electrics left in the tubes... What do you think? They took all the electrics and left me with a full boat of steamers!

Not happy.

[Snestorm]

So you're the one stealing all my G7As,
and leaving me with all these crumby electric things.

[pickinthebanjo]

So you're the one stealing all my G7As,
and leaving me with all these crumby electric things.

Agreed, although my latest patrol was directly related to my deck gun and 20mm ammo. It's looking like one of those 50000 ton patrols:)

[Jimbuna]

You only get a basic loadout at these 'replenishment' places I'm afraid.

In RL, mating up with a milch cow resulted in one or two additional eels only at best.

[maillemaker]

Yeah, that's why I hate docking at anyplace but home - always get stuck with steamers. I only carry electrics.

[Immelman]

It makes perfects sense that the milkcow gives you a load out of TI G7a they are much easier to care for then electrics that have to be constantly stripped down and inspected every few days. Those ships spent months on end at sea where salt water and humidity can short out electrical systems easily.

Trust me you wouldn't want any electric eels they gave you it would just be dead weight...

[Sailor Steve]

As Jim said, the milk cows and and any supply ship are only going to give you a couple for protection on the way home, and only enough fuel to get there. Their own supplies weren't unlimited, and they had to help every u-boat that needed it.

Also, in real life electric torpedoes could not be stored in the external cases, as they had to checked every day to make sure they were working properly.

[Jimbuna]

As Jim said, the milk cows and and any supply ship are only going to give you a couple for protection on the way home, and only enough fuel to get there. Their own supplies weren't unlimited, and they had to help every u-boat that needed it.

Also, in real life electric torpedoes could not be stored in the external cases, as they had to checked every day to make sure they were working properly.

Precisely.....this is one area where the game is unrealistic in the sense that it equips you for a full patrol in ways of armaments and fuel.

This was never the case in RL.

[KL-alfman]

Precisely.....this is one area where the game is unrealistic in the sense that it equips you for a full patrol in ways of armaments and fuel.

This was never the case in RL.


one could always head to base directly and just use 2aale despite the fact you got a full load-out.

[Didd]

Last time I docked at a re-supply ship I got a full load of electric eels. Mind you I seem to get that by default now at home base also. I don't remember changing anything in config files etc. It just seemed to get the message after I changed the whole loadout for elctrics a couple of patrols ago......mmmm weird.

Also, there were no problems with corrosion or electrical shorts in those electric eels either!!

Didd

[Jimbuna]

one could always head to base directly and just use 2aale despite the fact you got a full load-out.

That's true and it is always something I've tried to advise whenever someone comes up with an unrealistic game action that can't be moddred out.......simply ignore the glitch and pretend it isn't there :DL

[Brag]

If I remember right, I got my electrics ripped off in Bergen. :down:

[Immelman]

It depends at which stage of the war you are. The game tries to simulate the fact the electrics become more and more common as the war advanced and more were produced in greater numbers. It still doesn't make since that milkcows give them to you as previously stated.

[Sailor Steve]

one could always head to base directly and just use 2aale despite the fact you got a full load-out.
I tend to do just the opposite - fire them all off until I only have two left.:sunny:

[KL-alfman]

That's true and it is always something I've tried to advise whenever someone comes up with an unrealistic game action that can't be moddred out.......simply ignore the glitch and pretend it isn't there :DL



1943-10-28
U-292 (VIIC/41)

I'm now in mid-Atlantic heading to my grid FC76.
not sure I make it home to Brest because I already had to go at flank speed to intercept a convoy.
but there's still one milk-cow left (U-488 in DF, I think). I'll go there but I pretend to get just as much fuel to reach home-base and only 2aale.
(maybe I shoot all the others I get into the ocean like Steve does ;))

[Snestorm]

I tend to do just the opposite - fire them all off until I only have two left.:sunny:

That's exactly how I handle "converting" my start of war IXB to a IX(A).
As soon as I'm a safe distance from port, and other ships, I waste my 2 stern torpedoes, then reload the tubes. In this way all temptation is removed.

The additional benefit to this is that if all torpedoes are expended, and the boat is submerged, you are no longer considered a "hunter" for time compression purposes. This is nice at the end of a patrol when one does not wish to be locked in TC x1, because a merchant is passing.

[Jimbuna]

1943-10-28
U-292 (VIIC/41)

I'm now in mid-Atlantic heading to my grid FC76.
not sure I make it home to Brest because I already had to go at flank speed to intercept a convoy.
but there's still one milk-cow left (U-488 in DF, I think). I'll go there but I pretend to get just as much fuel to reach home-base and only 2aale.
(maybe I shoot all the others I get into the ocean like Steve does ;))


That is your choice Kaleun...and one that many will share I suspect :yep: