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Originally Posted by Sailor Steve
I went in and readjusted mine to match the original values. My thinking is that, at least for fleet boats, that "Ahead Standard" was the speed meant for cruising with the fleet, and the surface fleet standard cruise speed was 15 knots. I may be wrong of course, but I haven't seen any real numbers from people who served on diesel boats as to what speeds actually matched what settings.
Just my thinking, of course.  |
Well, I had a different rational behind the adjustment. I didn't have all boats cruising at 15 knots, only at what i could conjecture was "3 engine speed". Some patrol logs i have read indicate they cruised two and from their patrol areas at "3 engine speed". So what exactly is "3 engine speed"?
It was awhile ago, but what i think i did was rationalize that 1/3rd was probably 1 engine. 2/3rds two engines, standard 3 engines, ahead full being 4 engines.
At that point I think did a little math by taking the top speed of whatever boat i was looking at, and mulplied it by 0.75 (or 75% which i figured, was about 3 engines). I took that number and entered it into the range figures in the sim file. So instead of say, 11,000 @ 10 knots, i put 11,000 at 13.5 knots.
Of course that "11,000" figure is also subject to conjecture and debate because
a.) fuel ballasts (no hard numbers on that i could find as to capacity and range on this)
b.) The game world is anywhere between 20 %to 30% larger then it is in real life
So while i don't remember the exact figure for fuel i used, i know i took those two things into consideration.
So add that larger fuel allowance, to say @13.5 knots, and that's pretty much what i did. The intent was to have fuel efficiency at speeds greater then the typical 10 knots that everyone uses. I think that figure is often used because that's that everybody uses on uboats. For fleet boats, i dont think the 10 knot figure is correct.
Of course, you take my design there, and throttle it back to 2/3rs for long range cruising going too and from patrol area, and well, you get alot more then you should.