Running out of fuel and batteries?

[dankm85]

Is there any course of action if this happens?

[donna52522]

Surface to recharge batteries (make sure you have the battery recharge button set to recharging)...Refit or port for more fuel.

[I'm goin' down]

A new mod just came out allowing refueling at sea. See the mods forum.

[dankm85]

Originally Posted by donna52522

Surface to recharge batteries (make sure you have the battery recharge button set to recharging)...Refit or port for more fuel.

Batteri recharge button? Where is this button located?

Regards

[Torplexed]

Originally Posted by dankm85

Batteri recharge button? Where is this button located?

Regards

It's in the command room set. Tenth from the left. It looks likes a battery. However, in order for it to recharge you need to have working diesel engines to deliver that charge. So, if you are out of fuel, you can't recharge anyway.

[dankm85]

Originally Posted by Torplexed

It's in the command room set. Tenth from the left. It looks likes a battery. However, in order for it to recharge you need to have working diesel engines to deliver that charge. So, if you are out of fuel, you can't recharge anyway.

So if you run out of fuel and batteries out of reach of a port its game over?

[Torplexed]

Originally Posted by dankm85

So if you run out of fuel and batteries out of reach of a port its game over?

Basically yes. I suppose in real life if you were in friendly waters, a tug or tender could be dispatched to rescue you. If in unfriendly waters, maybe another sub could possibly come to your aid or take off the crew so you could scuttle. In either case you would probably be relieved of command for failing to keep an eye on the fuel situation.

SH3 had a teleport home button, but the designers didn't include it in this one. The lesson is, always keep a fuel reserve ample to get you home.

[Traveller]

Originally Posted by dankm85

Is there any course of action if this happens?

Course of action? Pray.

Just kidding.

As I'm goin' down stated, I just released 2 mods to deal with problems like these... such as running out of fuel, and having destroyed diesel engines, rudders, etc. The mods are called Take Me Home, and Rescue Sub. Both can be used together. Please have a look here:

http://www.subsim.com/radioroom/showthread.php?t=193901

http://www.subsim.com/radioroom/showthread.php?t=193872

[TorpX]

Originally Posted by dankm85

Is there any course of action if this happens?

Yes, there is a course of action. Start the game and select the "START NEW CAREER" option.



Seriously, if you are reasonable prudent, it shouldn't happen (barring battle damage, of course).

[dankm85]

Originally Posted by TorpX

Yes, there is a course of action. Start the game and select the "START NEW CAREER" option.



Seriously, if you are reasonable prudent, it shouldn't happen (barring battle damage, of course).

It actually happend to me since im a Semi noob in the Silent Hunter games :P i still have not gotten a hang of manual aiming yet lol my torpedoes tend to bypass their targets quite often

I had been on a patrol of the coast of Japan and later was on my way back to Pearl Harbor. Along the way i encountered a lot of lonely Japanese merchant ships that i was constantly chasing down with my Epic Deck gun.

I did notice that the fuel was running low but i reconed i got batteries anyways so its kewl"DERP" I was pretty close to my destination when i ran out of fuel and batteries.

I did not know at the time that i needed fuel to be able to recharge the batteries . I thought i could run out of fuel and still recharge them so thats how i ended up stranded and led me to start this thread.

[TorpX]

Once I start getting close to the 50% mark, I check and recheck my fuel (almost obsesively you might say). With RFB, your navigator can give you the range at current speed, which is very helpful. On one patrol I had trouble finding targets and stayed out a long time. When I finally got back to Brisbane, I only had about 3% of my fuel left. That is really cutting it too close, but I had done my math carefully; otherwise I wouldn't have risked it.

The game is pretty generous in many ways, but in case you don't know this already, don't use real-life distances from outside sources for your in-game plans. They won't match up. The in-game charts are based on a "flat-earth" model and are distorted (i.e. stretched).

[Bilge_Rat]

Actually I did read in Blair's book about a few U-Boats which found themselves mid-Atlantic with not enough fuel to return to base, usually when the Kaleun cut things a bit too close and something unforeseen happened, like the boat being blown off course by a storm. Typical response from BDU was to send another U-Boat to rendezvous and transfer fuel.

I have not read about anything similar in the Pacific, but then Fleet Boats had lots of fuel, average range 15,000 miles vs 6,500 nm for a VIIb/c.

As a skipper, I check fuel daily when out on patrol and am always recalculating the point at which I have to go back (usually when I have 30-40% fuel left).

Checking how much gas you have left is your most important job as skipper.

[themrwho]

Originally Posted by Bilge_Rat

Actually I did read in Blair's book about a few U-Boats which found themselves mid-Atlantic with not enough fuel to return to base, usually when the Kaleun cut things a bit too close and something unforeseen happened, like the boat being blown off course by a storm. Typical response from BDU was to send another U-Boat to rendezvous and transfer fuel.

That's what I thought. I am still looking for VIIB prices but must be at least USD 10M, too expensive to simply abandon due to fuel, or minor damage to engines.

Not only expensive in terms of financial worth but also too costly to abandon a U-boat since they never had enough for the 'tonnage war' they will try and hold on to each and every boat, even if it is semi-done.