[Immelmann]

Originally Posted by Drakken

HELP! I am no longer able to use my rudder!!!

I was able to get out of a sticky situation against an escort, in which I withstood some minor damage to my engines which are fixed now. However, with no other visible damage I am just going straight into the Japanese mainland without being able to turn my ship left or right!

I tried everything - hard port, hard starboard, return to course, minor changes of course to rudder, saving and reloading, everything... but nothing improves. I have no other visible damage to anything else in the control room.

Plus, I am unable to abandon ship so I am at lost of what I can do.

Assuming you have the free camera enabled, go look and see if you actually have a rudder. I've had mine blown off a few times now. No red damage label for that one. So it can take you by surprise. Had to abandon a couple of careers due to that happening. Once, however, I scored what I consider a partial success. Unable to steer my choice was forward to Tokyo or reverse to the northern coast of New Guinea. I chose New Guinea and even sunk a Japanese merchant with the deck gun on the way there. Arrived New Guinea and scuttled the boat just off shore. From there it would have been a six month wait in the jungle for my crew until that piece of land was taken away from the Japanese. So I considered that a win in that my crew made landfall and did not end up in a watery grave. It would be nice to have separate control over port and starboard propeller speed. That should make the boat somewhat steerable. I think this would have been possible in real life.