Computing sub crush depth!

[NEON DEON]

Crush depth.

Webster pointed out to me that maxdepth in the sub cfg file enables crush depth.

Well yes and no,

It would appear that both max depth in the sub cfg file and the crash depth in the zone file combine to define crush depth.

First off looking at the S-18:

Max depth in sub cfg file is listed as 61 meters.

Crash depth in sub zone file is 122 meters. (this is not crash depth in cfg file and has nothing to do with that).

The crash depth is 100% deeper than max depth.

Taking the S-18 down to 120 meters sinks the sub in a few minutes. However, taking her down past 61 meters and starting the clock ticking it takes the S-18 when leveling off at 90 meters about 8 1/2 minutes to crack open. but if you level off at 85 meters some 24 meters(not feet) below max depth she does not crush. That is 40% lower than maxdepth.

The Porpoise:

Max depth in sub cfg file is 100 meters.

Crash depth in sub zone file is 150 meters.

The crash depth is 50 % deeper than max depth.

Taking the Porpoise down to 140 meters 40 % below max depth the sub sinks.

However, adjust the zone crash depth to 200 meters 100 % more than the max depth in the cfg file like the S-18 and the sub stays intact at 140 meters. See picture below where the sub ran at 140 meters for over 9 hours.




So when you leave the max depth of the porpoise at 100 meters in cfg file you can adjust the crush depth by varying the crash depth in the zone file

IE:

100M max depth and 200M crash depth = Crush depth below 140 meters
100M max depth and 175M crash depth = Crush depth below 123 meters
100M max depth and 150M crash depth = Crush depth below 106 meters
100M max depth and 125M crash depth = Crush depth below 89 meters! Thats under the max depth reading.

So long story short, a crush depth set 100 % below max depth will yield crush depth of maxdepth * 1.40. Well at least thats my theory.

This is in 1.4 version. but,in 1.5, I would bet that if you set max depth on the playable uboat to 100 M and crash depth in the zone file to 200 M she will crack open after 140 meters

Of course, they could have changed how they did crush depth in 1.5 too.