Handing out qualifications

Greystone · 02-13-15, 02:54 PM

I'm at the beginning of my career, end of 2nd patrol, and am beginning to hand out qualifications. A few questions..
If I wanted to improve hydrophone efficiency, would I give the "Radioman" qualification to a petty officer and stick him into the "Sonar" slot in the Sonar and Radio compartment?
On the bridge, I know that placing a petty officer, with a gunner or flak qualification in a deck gun/flak slot enhances gunnery efficiency, but would also giving the bridge lookout Officer a gunnery or flak qualification further enhance efficiency for one or the other?

Sailor Steve · 02-13-15, 03:28 PM

Yes to all. Having a qualified officer to supervise always helps. A Radio-qualified PO in the Radio-Sound station is pretty much necessary.

Raptor · 02-14-15, 12:15 PM

My early war default qualification for the officers:

Bridge: Watchman, Gunner, Flak Gunner. Once my deck gun goes away (about 1943), I change from Gunner to Repair.

L.I.: Mechanic, Repair

NAV: Watchman, Helmsman, Medic

WEPS: Watchman, Gunner, Torpedoman

Since there is no such thing as an unqualified Petty Officer, I have edited all 12 of the default Data/cfg/crew_cfg_**_*.cfg files (3 for for each sub type) to fully qualify all the POs from the beginning.

02-13-15, 02:54 PM	#1
Greystone Sparky Join Date: Apr 2007 Location: San Francisco area Posts: 155 Downloads: 135 Uploads: 0	Handing out qualifications I'm at the beginning of my career, end of 2nd patrol, and am beginning to hand out qualifications. A few questions.. If I wanted to improve hydrophone efficiency, would I give the "Radioman" qualification to a petty officer and stick him into the "Sonar" slot in the Sonar and Radio compartment? On the bridge, I know that placing a petty officer, with a gunner or flak qualification in a deck gun/flak slot enhances gunnery efficiency, but would also giving the bridge lookout Officer a gunnery or flak qualification further enhance efficiency for one or the other?

02-13-15, 03:28 PM	#2
Sailor Steve Eternal Patrol Join Date: Nov 2002 Location: High in the mountains of Utah Posts: 50,369 Downloads: 745 Uploads: 249	Yes to all. Having a qualified officer to supervise always helps. A Radio-qualified PO in the Radio-Sound station is pretty much necessary. __________________ “Never do anything you can't take back.” —Rocky Russo

02-14-15, 12:15 PM	#3
Raptor Weps Join Date: Nov 2002 Location: Pacific NW, USA Posts: 350 Downloads: 54 Uploads: 0	My early war default qualification for the officers: Bridge: Watchman, Gunner, Flak Gunner. Once my deck gun goes away (about 1943), I change from Gunner to Repair. L.I.: Mechanic, Repair NAV: Watchman, Helmsman, Medic WEPS: Watchman, Gunner, Torpedoman Since there is no such thing as an unqualified Petty Officer, I have edited all 12 of the default Data/cfg/crew_cfg_*_.cfg files (3 for for each sub type) to fully qualify all the POs from the beginning. __________________ Raptor