Kiel Canal Blues...
 

I was wondering if anyone else has this many problems navigating the Keil Canal...
I have died three times from running aground in the ditch, and all of them were avoidable! If I didn't like my watch officer, I would have him shot for sure...
Two times were on the same sandbar!

I'm using NYGM 3.5 with MaGuiF, and I am having trouble finding the right spot to put the first waypoint for an "automatic" transit. Any ideas or updates?

I never do an 'automatic'. I lay my own waypoints, take my time and enjoy the view. Which is not to say I do it in real time. I usually run at 128x.

This, I zoom in and try to stay dead center.

It is a habit I picked up from SH4 and always running aground on tiny islands and all the shallow mess on them infernal volcanic produced islands.
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Yes stupidity is only stupidity if one does not learn from it.:salute:

I skip over the canal completely. A few days longer to get to sea? Oh well.

I was going to explain the 'automatic waypoint' from GWX then realised you use NYGM.....manual inputs whilst zoomed in is possibly your only option.

I try not to use Kiel, and if I do I don't use the canal. I think I've used it a handful of times but always regret it.

Wilhelmshaven FTW. :yeah:

With the "Start at Sea" mod enabled, using the GWX automatic route for the Kiel Canal runs me aground and destroys my boat everyime. :damn:

I always plot the course manually, regardless of what I am, and right now I'm in the red sea ... towards the Indian Ocean, :know:

Most helpful :doh:

As an aside, has anyone tried to destroy those bridges on the canal, with torpedoes? Just curious... :arrgh!:

Forget it, it does not work.

Well I gotta give you that one... :DL

Could you explain, and possibly point out where that function lives, that i might use it to my own nefarious ends?

The terrain is classed as an environmental and therefore is not equipped with a damage model and is therefore indestructible...light ships are the same.

LOL :DL

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