[Pablo]

Originally Posted by ddiplock

Ok. so U94 was approching a large convoy but was detected by the escorts, my fault for trying to take the boat in on the surface at midnight when it wasn't pitch black, it still looked like daytime infact but i was hoping the fog would mask my appraoch, never mind.

Hi!

Much depends on the year (e.g., did one of the escorts have radar?), your speed (you need to be going ahead slow at most), sea conditions (you should fear a flat calm), visibility, escort crew quality, etc. The degree to which your monitor shows the scene as light or dark shouldn't really affect the escorts' ability to see you.

Anyway, when I was diving down, my boat appeared to be "rear end" heavy, I had no flooding damage or excess water in the boat, but my CE could not maintain the boat at the depth I required. I had the boat sink down to 240mtrs (yes, the hull held together to my amazment ) before i increased engine speed to gain some control of the boat.

That was the only way I my CE was able to hold the boat then when I ordered us upto 200mtrs. If I ran the engines at slow, to 2knts, the rear of the boat seemed to pull us back down.

My only theory is that the trim on my boat was screwed up which is my I couldn't keep her level without a proper 5 knots or so.

Anyone know about this?

GWX should not sink your boat for running at very slow speed; rather, we would expect your boat to rise a meter or so above the commanded depth if your speed is less than a couple of knots.

Standard questions:

1. Do you have any other mods installed besides GWX?
2. Did you command the boat to dive without establishing a target depth?
3. Did you install GWX over a clean, new installation of Silent Hunter III?
4. Have you been able to repeat the problem (say, in one of the single player missions)?

Pablo