Mommy ! I want my mommy !
 

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/h...odem/Mommy.jpg

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.

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

break out the oars
 

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

Ship sighted and you cant dive

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

You lost the engines that matter ;)

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:

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:

Sounds like you can swim to shore.http://i196.photobucket.com/albums/a...d-paranoid.gif

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:

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

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

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

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.