Help!
 

Can anybody help a fellow IXC Kapitan? I've made a very dumb mistake on my long patrol down to the Cape. Foolishly once I crossed the Equator I thought I would head for a lone island (middle of FM grid) which looked harmless enough and it turns out to be THE main Yank airbase in the whole of the bloody south Atlantic!! :damn:

I'm playing the new LRT 1.32 mod and as you probably know airpower has been made far more deadly now as I'm increasingly finding out. The weather is ****e so I can't use my AA guns even if I wanted to, and I have survived 3 depth charge attacks but my sub has been badly damaged in the aft section (1 prop destroyed, 1 badly damaged) which has seriously inhibited my forward momentum (can only achieve 1 kt).

So fellow kaleuns what to do? Everytime I surface to get much needed air the bastards are waiting for me above. I could possibly reload my savegame on the Equator and bypass this deadly area but I like to play DiD so that is a last resort. Ideas??? :hmm:

Also is it historically correct to have aircover in this region at this time (Oct '42)?

id suggest surfacing then put your speed at the most fuel economic speed then head home
if it fails
try reloading the save and by-pass that spot:arrgh!:

But that's the blimmin' problem I can't surface for more than 5 mins before my RWR detects an incoming plane. I'm too far from base with this amount of damage. Is it possible to repair destroyed equipment at a Milchcow do you know? :hmm:

If so I can head for my refueling rendezvouus with U-459 and do makeshift repairs there only problem is only got to do another 2000 kms!! Wish me luck!

Your options;

• Scuttle,

• Fight it out on the surface.....then scuttle,

• Stay submerged till everyone is blue in the face from lack of air, then surface and scuttle,

• Did i mention scuttle.

As far as I know it's not possible to repair at a milk cow. I think the only choice you have is to try and reload your batteries with short runs on the surface. Just because you get an RWR warning does not necessery mean you have been detected. Try to stick on the surface until you can see the plane, then dive, swith off your engine and wait for the plane to leave, surface again and repeat until the batteries are recharged. Then run submerged as long as you can, repeat as often as necessery.
But altogether, if you realy can not go faster than 1 kts you are probably done. Sooner or later a plane will get you because you can not dive fast enough. Do you even have enough fuel to reach the milk cow at 1 kts?

You could try surfaced but with decks awash - about 1 - 2 m deeper than when completely surfaced. It should cut down on your crash dive time substantially.
Put some distance between you and the airbase, try to sail surfaced at night at the highest speed you can run at whilst still having the range to get back to base.

Or you could hit the escape key & choose the "teleport to base" ;) option.

Thanks fellows all good advice I'm sure. Hehe my fault for going in the lion's den I s'pose. My actual surface speed at flank is currently 5 kts so no worries there but it's my submerged speed that's the killer! And I imagine if I lose the other prop I'm screwed right? Funnily enough despite the stb prop being 'destroyed' the underwater animation still shows it rotating!? Go figure...

I still can't believe I headed straight for an Allied airbase! What a Bernard I am! :damn:

:rotfl: :rotfl: :rotfl:

No, Bernard was your navigator. Your mistake was to listen to him... :rotfl::rotfl::rotfl:

hes mistake was to bring him on a patrol:rotfl: :rotfl:

Update
 

I blew ballast and I think the gods are smilin' on me! It was peeing down with rain with heavy fog. No aircraft around (hopefully grounded in this foul weather) and I'm makin' a steady 6 kts. I'm still dangerously close to the airbase though about a 100 clicks to the west so I'm not safe yet. Rain damn you rain! :up:

[underwriting]

That'll be exactely how I'd do it, too.

Fair chance to get home alive and tell your crew comrades in the bar about your adventurous journey. :D

Cheers,
AndyW

If you can make 5 kts. you're ok and you can tow Bernard behind the boat and trawl for sharks. :smug:

:rotfl: :rotfl:

i doubt they are gonna eat him
hes gonna smell like s*** after being in a metal tube for several week working and not having a shower...imagine the smell:dead: