Promoting Seaman

Tessa · 08-21-10, 05:30 AM

How do you guys go about promoting the seaman (Matrose) on your boats? I find it easy to distinguish when certain PO's or Officers show superior performance through various ways - my watchman (officer) seems to have been immune to fatigue (even from start in Aug 39') he could go a whole patrol w/o submerging and still barely be fatigued while the rest of the crew is keeled over from exhaustion. Though not very German I renamed him Lou Gehrig as he's nothing less than the real Iron Horse in terms of never missing a moment of action.

Your average crewman though how do you go about promoting them? Save those that are either exceptional with the deck or flak guns there's really no subjective way (ime) to judge their performance. After 9 patrols w/148 days at sea, 644,000 tons sunk so far I've only promoted my sonar operator, and 3 crewmen that have been like a sniper with the deck gun. Recently I dishonorably dismissed 4 PO's, 1 officer and 1 sailor after the last patrol for being dead weight or being combat ineffective by being fatigued almost 100% of the time (as in the case of the officer, he couldn't stay at the helm longer than 10 minutes before he couldn't stand anymore and had to sleep in the bunks for a few hours at least).

On the positive side it's nice having spots that are usually not open for promotion now free (though not realistic I don't believe in transfer unless they're deserved - like giving a Leutnant chance for command - I work hard to train these guys just like Patton would've and I'll be damned if I ever let some brass try and take away some of my best sailors; always make sure to have a friend in the Gestapo to dig up dirt on my CO to keep them under my thumb). Unless you have people that are intentionally avoiding promotion (more common among US enlisted soldiers than Germans) each crewmen will get the same amount of exp 95% of the time. Obviously the 5% that do manage to earn more exp than their fellow mates I promote but it happens so rarely to make it a reliable system. During combat promotions can go very fast, having a sailor sitting at E-1 for 2 years just wouldn't be right. So far my best patrol ended up with 128,993 tons (all merchant) sunk and another 100,000+ ton with 2 battleships sunk which irl would've probably earned the whole crew at least an IC2 each or promotion but being allowed only 4 promotions max such actions aren't feasible. Since we can't communicate with the PO's or see them in action how do others handle this dilemma?

08-21-10, 05:30 AM	#1
Tessa Grey Wolf Join Date: Feb 2007 Location: CG 96 Posts: 861 Downloads: 22 Uploads: 0	Promoting Seaman How do you guys go about promoting the seaman (Matrose) on your boats? I find it easy to distinguish when certain PO's or Officers show superior performance through various ways - my watchman (officer) seems to have been immune to fatigue (even from start in Aug 39') he could go a whole patrol w/o submerging and still barely be fatigued while the rest of the crew is keeled over from exhaustion. Though not very German I renamed him Lou Gehrig as he's nothing less than the real Iron Horse in terms of never missing a moment of action. Your average crewman though how do you go about promoting them? Save those that are either exceptional with the deck or flak guns there's really no subjective way (ime) to judge their performance. After 9 patrols w/148 days at sea, 644,000 tons sunk so far I've only promoted my sonar operator, and 3 crewmen that have been like a sniper with the deck gun. Recently I dishonorably dismissed 4 PO's, 1 officer and 1 sailor after the last patrol for being dead weight or being combat ineffective by being fatigued almost 100% of the time (as in the case of the officer, he couldn't stay at the helm longer than 10 minutes before he couldn't stand anymore and had to sleep in the bunks for a few hours at least). On the positive side it's nice having spots that are usually not open for promotion now free (though not realistic I don't believe in transfer unless they're deserved - like giving a Leutnant chance for command - I work hard to train these guys just like Patton would've and I'll be damned if I ever let some brass try and take away some of my best sailors; always make sure to have a friend in the Gestapo to dig up dirt on my CO to keep them under my thumb). Unless you have people that are intentionally avoiding promotion (more common among US enlisted soldiers than Germans) each crewmen will get the same amount of exp 95% of the time. Obviously the 5% that do manage to earn more exp than their fellow mates I promote but it happens so rarely to make it a reliable system. During combat promotions can go very fast, having a sailor sitting at E-1 for 2 years just wouldn't be right. So far my best patrol ended up with 128,993 tons (all merchant) sunk and another 100,000+ ton with 2 battleships sunk which irl would've probably earned the whole crew at least an IC2 each or promotion but being allowed only 4 promotions max such actions aren't feasible. Since we can't communicate with the PO's or see them in action how do others handle this dilemma? Last edited by Tessa; 08-21-10 at 06:06 AM.