R.I.P. the crew of U-19
 

So on my 7 patrol in 1940. I head to Am 23, on my way out of Wilhelmshaven (Im up by Norway at this point, because I was going to go up and around England) I get a merchant spotted. For some reason, a Brit merchant was that far into our waters, alone. So I take her out with two torps. Then I set back on my course and put up TC to 128 and head out of the room for a bit, only to come back to the death screen(Boo-Shady). I was having a good career too.

6 patrols (Again I dont count one because it was just a trip back from a resupply ship with nothing sunk) with a total of 103,842 GRT.

I'd recieved my first ever Iron Cross 2nd class and had a quite promising looking career ahread of my Kaleun. Too bad. Time to start a new one, I may start in a much later date just to try the war at a much harder stage :arrgh!:

Sorry for your loss.It's a good lesson, you will never make such a mistake again.If you must leave the game,go to 1TC and submerge.

If leave the game, I pause it, I have also lost a boat whilst away, never again. Even 1TC isn't worth the risk for me. Leave for 5 minutes at 1TC, what are really saving, 2.5 seconds of real time at 128TC when you get back.

RIP Herr Kaleun. :salute:

I will leave it at 128 TC if I'm doing something else in the same room only a few feet away where I can keep an eye on things... and then only if I'm cruising out of range of air cover and well away from any place that's likely to be mined.

If I have to leave the room for a short time but will still be where I can hear any alerts, and not so involved with something else that I might miss one if it happens, I'll drop back to 1 TC.

Any other diversions that are likely to take longer or be too distracting... I just pause the game. Better safe than sorry IMO.

Made me quite sad at first :( Ohhhh well new Kaluen this time :up:

Cant you just open the save game from when your still in port? >.>

I simply keep five saves for each patrol, numbered 1 through 5. After I save #5 I simply save the next one as 1 and then cycle through them until the end of the patrol. Before and after each significant game event I create a new save point. As soon as I spot a ship, I save. After attacking I save and so forth. Having only one save point per patrol means you have to either abandon your career or reload the entire patrol again from scratch if you have a time compression accident. This is my one exception to my "Dead is Dead" style of game play.

I may just do that since it was kinda hinky I died in a TC accident. Didnt think of loading my save, thanks for the advice K-61:salute:

USNSRCaseySmith, sorry, but you will again :yep:

Sorry maybe dumb q but what is TC?? you're Depth??

Cheers:salute:

Time compression.

My last TC death was from my own stupidity.

I was sick of the Keil canal TC dropdowns, so I adjusted all the TC rates in SHIII commander to max, planning to quickly pass through the canal at max TC without dropping back to 1 for every time a ship was spotted, or the water got to shallow. I'd then save, exit, edit the paramaters back to normal, then go on my merry way.

Expecting horrendous lag, I loaded, hit the auto course for the Keil canal at ahead standard, bumped up TC to max, and left the room. Came back a few minutes later to find myself dead.

Seems I'd plotted a Kiel canal inbound course rather than outbound, and my navigator sent my boat out of the pen, across the harbour, and beached her on the opposite shoreline. I only realised this when I did exactly the same thing on the reload, and stayed to watch what happened.

So who gets the court martial?

you win the prize :salute:

You. Though if you are the least bit clever, it will be Bernard. And lest you get your knickers in a knot worrying about him, don't. The guy is teflon (not even invented yet!).