What Would You Do?

[Carcassonne]

2nd Career, 18th patrol.

I came across a beautiful convoy, all enemy and all C2 or larger. After my initial attack I received some swft punishment. I lost stern dive planes as well as port and starboard rudders...in short, I could only dive, surface, and move fore and aft.

So the question: what would you do?

1). Warp back to port via "Exit Patrol"
2). Play dead is dead and assume your career is over?

[Beery]

Warp back to port. BdU never left a U-boat drifting in the Atlantic.

However, I would never have got as far as an 18th patrol. No real U-boat commander did more than 16 patrols.

[Catfish]

Hello,
just try to set course to base, maybe the boat will travel back without direct rudder commands. The possibility to repair the planes as well as steering with the screws is not implemented in the game (propshafts were not aligned with the hull but some degrees off to both sides). If it doesn't work, warp back ....
Greetings,
Catfish

[U-104]

I would wait for the amount of days it took the tow ship to get to me and then the amount of days it took for me to get back and then hit warp.

[Sailor Steve]

I would wait for the amount of days it took the tow ship to get to me and then the amount of days it took for me to get back and then hit warp.
Great idea! Much more realistic than doing it immediately. I never thought of that one. Thanks! :up:

[August]

I would wait for the amount of days it took the tow ship to get to me and then the amount of days it took for me to get back and then hit warp.
Great idea! Much more realistic than doing it immediately. I never thought of that one. Thanks! :up:

What kind of tow boat could BDU send in such a situation? Probably another sub i'd imagine but could one sub tow another and still submerge if attacked?

[Happy Times]

Another sub would come with spare parts and try to repare it.If that wouldnt work,they would scuttle the boat and take the crew onboard.. :hmm:

[JohnnyPotPie]

this is when we all wish for the ability to control each screw individualy.

[bookworm_020]

Had this happen to me on an early patrol. Came across a convoy near Liverpool. Took out a T2 and a C3 and made a C2 lean some. :arrgh!:

The escorts (5 of them, what did I sink, the Queen Mary???) took a dislike to my behaviour, and proceeded to give me a right royal booting :(

They destroyed my rudder, bow planes, radio, damaged three of my five tubes and a leak in two compartments. My hull integerty wasn't all that great either.

When I surfaced, the only choice I had for a destination was ahead for England or all back for Ireland. Did everything in the book ( and a couple of things that weren't) to try and get home, but no luck.

Had to quit and restart my patrol. Didnt save before getting beat up :damn:

[Kapitän Cremer]

In case a U-boat was disabled out in the Atlantic it was standard procedure to send out a resupply sub, also known as Milk Cow, to try and repair any damage. If the U-boat couldn't be repaired it would be destroyed by its own crew.

As always it was a race on both sides because the allies were keen on getting their hands on the german enigma code machine.

Have you ever seen the movie U-571. Although a bit over dramatized it does draw a good picture of the strugge of the Enigma.

[Happy Times]

Yeah,but also here the real story could have made a better movie,i think..

[Carcassonne]

I ended up simply "warping" back to port and ended the mission. I had done so prior to reading a post about waiting a given length of time to simulate receiving repairs from another vessel.

Thanks for the ideas, I'll certainly use them in the future.

Also, there was a comment about plotting a course and seeing what happens. I tried manual going hard starboard and port to no avail, I simply would only turn if the currents moved me in that direction...oh well. I guess I will say that I'm glad the "warp" feature is included, it certainly would be a shame to eternally float.

[Kapitän Cremer]

Yeah,but also here the real story could have made a better movie,i think..

Absolutely..but you know...once Hollywood wants to make a movie it has to involve blowing up half a continent for starters.... :doh:

Only exception is Das Boot....Accurate historic uboat movie who doesn't put brawns before brains.....

[Beery]

...once Hollywood wants to make a movie it has to involve blowing up half a continent for starters.... :doh:

Only exception is Das Boot....Accurate historic uboat movie who doesn't put brawns before brains.....

I think Das Boot was made in Bavaria.

[martes86]

Bavaria Studios, München, Germany.

[Beery]

Bavaria Studios, München, Germany.

Munich is in Bavaria. :88)

[kholemann]

Warp back to port. BdU never left a U-boat drifting in the Atlantic.

However, I would never have got as far as an 18th patrol. No real U-boat commander did more than 16 patrols.

Indeed, mine is an unreal commander in mid 1942 on the 28th patrol.

[martes86]

Munich is in Bavaria. :88)

Doh! :oops: :lol:

[Kapitän Cremer]

Just to drop a note on war movies....

There is nothing that can make me twitch as when you see a WWII movie and ther germans speak english :doh:

Simply the most annoying thing in the world....

[Cdre Gibs]

Only exception is Das Boot....Accurate historic uboat movie who doesn't put brawns before brains.....



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