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Sniper297 · 03-27-14, 03:04 PM

I'm used to misinformation on the internet, but this is no information at all. I'm GUESSING that it was slower than the U-boats, since the Germans had some high tech chutes/rollers/cranks to stuff their tubes, while Americans still used chain hoists and rope/pulley block&tackle powered by sweat&armstrong gruntworks.

But the consensus for dive times was Das Boot = 30 seconds, Yankee Doodle fleet boat = 60 seconds. Unless you read books written by actual submariners rather than journalists, all the real guys mention 3 to 5 minutes for the first dozen dives on sea trials while calculating compensation, after that it was drill drill drill until the 60 second dive was cut down to 30-35 seconds. No US fleet sub made it from the builder to Pearl without getting the standard time down to 35 seconds or less. But the 60 second myth persists and that's reflected in SH4. Changing that too, increased ballast flooding "liters per second" to at least double so a standard dive gets to periscope depth in less than 1 minute. Fiddling with the dive planes as well, still testing that.

For now I'm using 1.0 instead of 1.32 reload, that cuts the reload (WHILE AT GQ, AKA battle stations) from 8 minutes per tube to 6 minutes per tube. With an average crew of rated torpedomen, no supermen special abilities but no non-rated lubbers either.

03-27-14, 03:04 PM	#5
Sniper297 The Old Man Join Date: Dec 2005 Location: Philadelphia Shipyard Brig Posts: 1,386 Downloads: 160 Uploads: 19	I'm used to misinformation on the internet, but this is no information at all. I'm GUESSING that it was slower than the U-boats, since the Germans had some high tech chutes/rollers/cranks to stuff their tubes, while Americans still used chain hoists and rope/pulley block&tackle powered by sweat&armstrong gruntworks. But the consensus for dive times was Das Boot = 30 seconds, Yankee Doodle fleet boat = 60 seconds. Unless you read books written by actual submariners rather than journalists, all the real guys mention 3 to 5 minutes for the first dozen dives on sea trials while calculating compensation, after that it was drill drill drill until the 60 second dive was cut down to 30-35 seconds. No US fleet sub made it from the builder to Pearl without getting the standard time down to 35 seconds or less. But the 60 second myth persists and that's reflected in SH4. Changing that too, increased ballast flooding "liters per second" to at least double so a standard dive gets to periscope depth in less than 1 minute. Fiddling with the dive planes as well, still testing that. For now I'm using 1.0 instead of 1.32 reload, that cuts the reload (WHILE AT GQ, AKA battle stations) from 8 minutes per tube to 6 minutes per tube. With an average crew of rated torpedomen, no supermen special abilities but no non-rated lubbers either.