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Also is it possible to run the electric engines on the surface? I'm low on diesel and I wanted to use the electrics for a while to try and increase my range but I can't seem to do that on the surface.
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No, but don't worry: you can make it home even without any diesel. I had this happen when I was on my way home and realised I had been going Ahead Flank since my last crash dive (damn aiplanes). This meant I was out of fuel some 900km off the coast of Australia with a tonnage of about 90.000 (gotta love under-the-keep one-shot-kills on large tankers). So I dived and proceeded at 3knots on batteries, till they ran out. I surfaced and ... SURPISE! The batteries were charging somehow. Speed on surface was 0, speed underwater 3Knots. I would surface on high time compression, wait for the battery meter to fill to 3/4 (I was too damaged for it to fill all the way) then dive and crawl away at 3 Knots. I kept doing this all the way home. Annoying? Yes. Buggy? Yes -- how do those batteries charge? Solar pannels in WWii?! Exploitable? Defenetly!