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Originally Posted by AVGWarhawk
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Originally Posted by tater
The chances of losing all 4 diesels due to DC damage seem to be nil (in RL) IMO.
I might work on making it impossible to damage them except with shell fire.
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There was one, USS Archer-Fish. Although the diesels did not quit, there was a electrical fire that cut off the electric to the motors. This in effect killed the diesels. They did rig up the 5th smaller motor and were able to make it to port. So yep, pretty darn hard to make 4 engines that are in separate rooms go ca-blooy. |
Wahoo ended up dead in the water when a rogue wave resulted in flooding the control cubicle, resulting in some electrical shorts, fires (and half-drowned crew members!). Just to add to the fun, it happened in front of an approaching convoy when they were out of torps. "It never rains, it pours" seems to be the case, here!
As for the rest....interesting to see the cutaway drawings. I knew how the power in US WWII fleet boats worked, but hadn't seen a good set of pics like that (so thanks, Tater!). I imagine this was just another case of trying to shoehorn SH4 into SH3 with time constraints. Power generation and management was one area of total deviation between U-boats and fleet boats, so the result is something that doesn't 'fit' for fleet boats. Radar is another thing that suffered in this regard, too.
Cheers