I've had similer complaints about the S-boat (with RFB). I don't think this was really intended or historical, but rather just another aspect of Ubi's sloppy game design.


Ducimus confronted this issue in his modding and posted some of what he learned about the battery issue. I can't recall the details, but IIRC, the game works in such a way as it takes a certain amount of time to recharge a battery to a given capacity. So, you can mod the battery to double the capacity, but it will take twice as long to fully recharge. If you change the battery to half the capacity, it will recharge twice as fast (but you only have half the capacity!!!). In other words, the most important elements of this is hard coded making everything a compromise.

When I patrol, I will usually submerge and run at 1 or 1.5 kts and limit my battery use to the greatest degree possible. Either that or remain on the surface.

Honestly, I don't know what the actual battery/engine performance of the S-class was. There doesn't seem to be detailed technical data available.



PS here, I found it:

http://www.subsim.com/radioroom/show...ght=recharging

Hmmm... I'm not surprised. The interiors are all the same, aren't they?

I poked around the Pigboats.com site. In one of the photo captions they said this:

Quote:

This view looking aft shows the torpedo storage rack more clearly. The submarine carried a total of fourteen torpedoes. Four of them were in the tubes and ten in the room. Two each on each of the lower wider brackets and one each on the top shorter bracket. Bunks can be seen tilted up in the after end of the room The torpedo loading skid can be seen on the top brace on the right side of the photo. ...

I don't recall reading this before. Can anyone confirm this?

Here is the link:

http://pigboats.com/subs/s-boats.html

Scroll down to the tour of the S-4.

Quote:

Regarding torpedo load-out, there were two major classes of S-Boat. Most had no stern tubes however an aft tube was added on some, which would make the total for those boats 14.

The loadout discussed was for the bow tubes only and the boat had no rear tube.

Quote:

The battery recharge time even according to RFB and Ducimus' TMO would be accurate due to the 2 small WWI era engine reason mentioned above.

I would agree if you were charging fleetboat batteries with S-class engines. The S-class were smaller, slower boats with less machinery, less performance, and smaller crews. They did not need the same battery capacity (in kilowatt hours) of a fleet boat. The batteries would be appropriate to the type of boat.

The total battery capacity for the S-4 was given as 1,240 KWH. I could find any specs for a fleet class, but I would guess it to be at least double that.