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Originally Posted by kiwikapitan
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Originally Posted by Tobus
Well, going under isn't going to save you fuel. This because the diesels burn plenty more fuel to get the batteries full again. After surfacing and setting speed to 8 kts means your engines burn fuel at about a normal speed of 12 kts to both power the boat and charge the batteries.
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As far as I know charging batteries doesn't consume any diesel fuel at all IN THE GAME. It's unrealistic, but probably not moddable (someone would have fixed it if it was).
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Not true. 
Recharging the batteries does use up diesel. Even just sitting on the surface at 0 kts on recharge will use up fuel. So you can't 'cheat' by just relying on the electrics. However it's not possible to run on the surface on the electric motors which is what a real u-boat could do to save fuel. |
1. As to consuming fuel or not, I'll wait for some modders' opinion - they usually know best for obvious reasons. I might be wrong, yes, but I'm still strongly convinced that loading batteries doesn't consume fuel at all IN SH3.
2. What do you mean saying that they used batteries for saving fuel? IRL using batteries doesn't help to save fuel, in fact it's an opposite, as you need more fuel to recharge the batteries after than you'd need to make the same distance. :hmm: