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Originally Posted by Marbakka
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Fuel management is now even more of a crucial item you simply cannot ignore. In RFB, every sub has been configured to obtain its best balance between speed and range with the Ahead Standard bell. Any higher and your fuel efficiency will drop; at lower speeds your range will increase, but it will take you that much longer to reach your objective. In conjunction with this, your navigator will tell you what your maxiumum range is at your current speed; look for the button on the menu bar. With thoughtful and rational use of your boat's speed settings, you can complete 4-week-plus patrols easily without having to re-fuel. If you run out of fuel, you did something wrong.
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This is giving me some serious grief. I'm new to SH4 but I like to dive into these things head first. I've already installed RFB and RSRD along with PE (I think). Anyway, so far aside from my horrific inability to hit things with torpedoes, my only real big problem is fuel management. I've tried all sorts of things but I never seem to have any fuel remaining after going from the port to the patrol area, conducting search patterns, and attacking merchants. I've gotten to where I start heading back toward Manilla at half tank because I know that Manilla will be taken before I get there and if my battery was damaged (and it often is) then I can't make it to Borneo in time either. As the above quote says, I'm doing something wrong. I'd been using Ahead Standard both above and below - charging the batteries 100%, diving till they got to about 10-20%, surfacing to charge and so forth. I've tried using diesel ONLY to charge the batteries (stopping, surfacing, charging, submerging, proceeding), but its just too painful to do that the entire trip. I ran a forum search on this topic but a) I couldn't find any tips specific to RFB and b) the tips I did find were all contradictory. Any tips for fuel management in RFB? |
Stay on the surface as much as possible and run at ahead standard. When submerged, I use 2/3 unless I'm trying to get into position.
When you are charging batteries, you use a lot more fuel and you are much more fuel efficient when on the surface so I only dive when necessary. You can use full or flank when doing an end around.
Under the nav map tab, you'll find "range to waypoint" and "estimated range at current speed". You can plan your fuel management through that. Hope that helps some.
