@Sub_Optimal:
Hitman is correct, Observer was a real-life American ex-submariner. He departed from this forum about three years ago.
Observer spent a very long time with mathematical modelling/balancing of the various compartments for fatigue - and also for morale - which is why some of the figures look so precise.
I found after much experience that the morale figures were crippling any U-boat that went on an extremely long cruise, such as an IXd2 to the Indian Ocean and back to France. Similarly, very long schnorchel patrols in 1945 during stormy weather around the British coast were crippling the engine-room crew. For this reason, I toned down the effects of morale a lot, but retained the fatigue components.
I have no knowledge of the effect of weather patterns, I don't remember seeing any separate crew fatigue components for weather that could be adjusted.
Good luck, anyway,
Stiebler.
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