[Leoz]

Most of my beefs are minor.

Number 1: planesmen at their station while boat is on surface. Nope. No bench and crew position for helmsman. This is big because when you run with crew fatigue, your watches are all screwed up. Everyone on the crew is trained to do basic planesmen duties. So your lookouts, when the order is given to dive, become your planesmen.

Number 2: No chief petty officer quarters/Officer's quarters goofed up. Sounds small, but again if you are running with game fatigue, it is a big deal. And while doing that, might as well also run the position for cook and assistants as they do other things at battle-stations. If the cooks position is not occupied, you can assume crew fatigue would go toward the bad. Including damage of this station.

Number 3: starting a career in the stock game without proper ratings for the ALL Petty Officers (Bootsman) as a minimum. Just didn't happen as the crew, even if it had no combat experience, was trained to a reasonable level in the Baltic workups.

Number 4: fatigue. I think it is a great idea, but if you tired at your post after only an hour, your bootsman would have a very serious talk with you. Potential crewmembers were culled heavily. Those that didn't have what it takes didn't get on a boat, at lease the first few years.

Number 5: skills given to officers are goofy. All were trained to a reasonable level to be an officer on watch that could also organize diving, surfacing and running the boat while on watch. So as a minimum they would have a helm and watchman rating by default.

Number 6: the navigator was a senior enlisted guy. Not an officer and could also run the third watch.

Your officers that you had under your command were the first watch officer W01, second watch officer, WO2 and chief engineer LI. Sometimes you went to sea with an extra officer. For example, an LI that never was there at the boats launch and came out of LI school. So he had to learn the ropes.

Nitpick? Probably, but anyone designing a game would have picked this up.