very weird failure

[aj906]

Yesterday I had a catastrophic failure that I can't explain...

I was in the middle of the north sea at 100 metres in my Typ XXI when all of a sudden there is a huge explosion. I check F7 and the conning tower is ruined completely - both periscopes, radar, sonar, radio all destroyed - the forward batteries are destroyed and the radio room destroyed and the control room and forward bunk house damage. The thing was, my hull damage only reduced to 98% and there was no water leakage. I use external views for screen shots so dived down to see if I was in a minefield or something (though I highly doubted it) and there was nothing so the only thing I can think of is the forward batteries exploded. Needless to say I had to immediately turn around and put to port which, without the "eyes" of sonar was a very tense thing given all the destroyer groups I'd noted in the region..

Has this every happened to anyone else?


Something else I have also noticed is that sometimes when I spawn in base or load a saved mission, I get "radar destroyed" messages despite having had no combat or reason for it to be destroyed. I do have malfunctions and sabotage set, but U-2518 must be the most accident prone boat in the whole U-boatwaffe.. Every time I go out, something fails or, like yesterday, blows up.

I'm only using GWX3.0 Gold

[maillemaker]

As I recall, the "radar destroyed" message happens when you select items from the equipment upgrade list that you are not supposed to manually select.

The GWX manual says something about it. There are certain GWX-added equipment upgrades that you cannot select manually through the usual upgrade path.

Steve

[Seminole]

One thing to consider is if you use SH3Commander and have Model Effects ticked it could have been a malfunction, sabotage....or both....

[Jankowski]

probably just bernhard trying to attach a lightbulb to the sub batteries!

[Jimbuna]

Originally Posted by aj906

Yesterday I had a catastrophic failure that I can't explain...

I was in the middle of the north sea at 100 metres in my Typ XXI when all of a sudden there is a huge explosion. I check F7 and the conning tower is ruined completely - both periscopes, radar, sonar, radio all destroyed - the forward batteries are destroyed and the radio room destroyed and the control room and forward bunk house damage. The thing was, my hull damage only reduced to 98% and there was no water leakage. I use external views for screen shots so dived down to see if I was in a minefield or something (though I highly doubted it) and there was nothing so the only thing I can think of is the forward batteries exploded. Needless to say I had to immediately turn around and put to port which, without the "eyes" of sonar was a very tense thing given all the destroyer groups I'd noted in the region..

Has this every happened to anyone else?


Something else I have also noticed is that sometimes when I spawn in base or load a saved mission, I get "radar destroyed" messages despite having had no combat or reason for it to be destroyed. I do have malfunctions and sabotage set, but U-2518 must be the most accident prone boat in the whole U-boatwaffe.. Every time I go out, something fails or, like yesterday, blows up.

I'm only using GWX3.0 Gold

The chances are you were in a sparsely populated minefield....the east coast of Britain has quite a few.

[Herr-Berbunch]

Didn't know the North Sea went to 100 metres!

[Jimbuna]

Originally Posted by Herr-Berbunch

Didn't know the North Sea went to 100 metres!

148 metres in some places (ingame).

[Weisia]

But aren't mines supposed to be close to the surface (something like 20m)?

[aj906]

Originally Posted by jimbuna

The chances are you were in a sparsely populated minefield....the east coast of Britain has quite a few.

Unless ordered to patrol close to the coast, I stay as far away as possible from the British coastline. I was about half way between Bergen and Berwick (can't remember the grid reference of the top of my head)... If it was a mine then:

1) I didn't realise they were set so deep
2) why was there minimal external damage and no flooding caused?

Still, I'm alive and that's all that counts

[Seminole]

Originally Posted by Weisia

But aren't mines supposed to be close to the surface (something like 20m)?

My watch detected an AC and I dove the boat into one at more than 20m as I remember the incident.....

I learned my lesson and stay away from the coast.

[Jimbuna]

Originally Posted by Weisia

But aren't mines supposed to be close to the surface (something like 20m)?

They are sown at many different depths.