Torpedoes not loading....
 

Hi all....I am new to this game .....however I have noticed that the last few missions I have played...I cannot get the torpedoe tubes reloaded....I click on the tube and get the response from the weapons officer that the tube is being loaded...but nothing ever happens......and I have torpedoes on board....what gives????

Hi! It could be that the torpedo room isn´t manned or that you are running silent.

Is there enough crew in the torpedo room and are they not too fatigued? If you check on the crew screen (F7) you can see who's where and how tired they are. I think torpedo loading will not commence if the bar for the torpedo room is under 25%

Also, if you're rigged for silent running, torpedo's will not be loaded.

Hmmm......I know that they couldnt be too tired as it was the start of a mission....unless they are a real lazy bunch!!!! It could be that I was rigged for silent running though....I did not think about that.....I will check into that.....thanx for the input......

Loading torpedeos
 

Slick Rick don't forget, even if the crew is not fatiqued, there has to be enough crew in the Torpedo room(s) for them to load the tubes, otherwise it will take forever or not at all. -Nightowl

And remember too, if you are RUNNING SILENT... Nothing will happen!

And if your crew is wiped out (fatigued) nothing much will happen either...

AND IF YOUR TUBES ARE OPEN... Nothing will happen!

I've had something of a similar problem.
When I sent a status rep it said I had 2 torps left but the tube select buttons were white, torp room full of guys (3 torp men there) and not rigged for silent.
Guess what? nothing happens. With all tubes showing empty I just ended the patrol
and no-one said anything even got an iron cross, but it was a bummer in middle of a convoy, report says 2 torps left, but nothing happening. lol

your external reserves remained in their lockers.

next time, crew the torpedo room, surface, and you will see two external torpedoes on the torpedo loadout screen (which you access through the weapons officer) click and drag the two torpedoes down into the onboard lockers - not the tubes mind you - but the spare torpedoes location, the men should begin moving them aboard at this point.

takes about 40 minutes to an hour in game to complete the process.

If I reload a saved game being submerged und already running silent it generally happens that it visually looks like i dont run silence (which could explain why u dont see the reason why the eals wont reload) and the watchcrew is on deck. Ordering scopedepth and going silent and back to std makes sure the game is synchronized again.

never... ever... save submerged.

the game begins to do funny things.

also general rules i tend to follow... never save within 50km of a sunken ship, or any known ship, or any known aircraft, or any port, or any shore line.

It happened to me too. I couldn't reload the second stern tube on IXB (tube 6). The torpedo simply wouldn't sit on the slot. Then I turned auto reloading on (I keep it off), and the reloading started. I stopped it and tried manually, but again it didn't work.

After firing tube 5, I was able to load it there. :hmm:

Thanks for the tip and help

Okay, I have a similar problem.

I fired two torps. I have many internal reserves. Can't get them to reload. It just says Torpedo Waiting In Queue.

I am not in silent running

I have a full rested crew in the compartment

The WE officer is on duty

What gives???

As an experiment try going into silent running (Z) and then come out.

There is a save/reload bug where you save while in silent running but when you reload the game does not show you that you are still in silent running mode.

Thanks Torplex, I got it now. I did have a full compliment in there, but I had silent running on, I then removed silent running, but by the time I did that, I had less than what it seems to require to load torpedoes.

What's interesting is that on my voyage to Argentina, I had no crew fatigue, but as I was half way back to port, all my crew started to fatigue out so that I couldn't even run my engines continuously. Some would recover after a few minutes in quarters, then some would not after days. It became so frustrating, I just returned to base and started over.