Sorry to be replying to a post made several weeks ago, but this caught my eye and I felt I had to say something.
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Originally Posted by DarkFish
Besides, I guess you can give orders about anywhere in the ship. I mean, wouldn't a real U-Boot captain be able to just give commands from anywhere within the boat? I guess the order would just be passed on by other crewmembers  |
Nope. If the captain is in the torpedo room and gives an order to change course, someone has to go to the control room and tell the helmsman. Problem is, the Officer Of the Deck (who is in command when the captain is not) has to be sure the order actually came from the captain. Who's to tell?
The officer in charge commands from the control room in a submarine, and that means the captain when he's actually excercising command, and the OOD when he's not. That's why all the controls are in the control room, including dive planes, steering and torpedo fire controls. Of course they are repeated on the bridge for surface operations, but the captain can't command from the engine or torpedo rooms - it just won't work.
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Originally Posted by WEBSTER
it can be a very good thing once we get used to it but the "key" thing i am concerned over is i want to be sure i can give orders no matter where i am on the boat and that they happen "while" im running back to the control room.
like the capt on deck thing, the sub should start the emergency dive while im in the process of getting to the hatch in time. at the very least go to decks awash untill i get inside, this is how it was in real life, the priorities were to save the boat #1, save the crew #2, save an individual #3
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I have to disagree here as well. Standing operational procedure, at least on the American boats (and if the German procedure was different it would be interesting to see evidence) was that the flood vents were never opened until all hatches were reported shut, even in an emergency dive.
I thought it was cool that when you hit 'Dive' in SH3 you were instantly taken below. Of course the conning tower would have felt more real, but you have to take what you get. But I hated it in SH4 when you and the watch crew stayed on the bridge until it actually dipped beneath the waves.