Crew Management Questions

[Reinhard Dietz]

Hey folks!

U-48 is in port and I'm ready to go and get some more crew. However, I've got a few questions that may have been covered before. I'll ask anyways. :P

-Did LIs stay with a particular boat? SH3C is recommending that I send my LI/CE off to get his own command, but I don't recall off-hand hearing that engineers did that. My current one is a senior lieutenant who stays in the zentrale and he's really handy.

-What ratio NCO:enlisted for the deck gun? I'm thinking I could use an NCO with the gunnery qualification to increase speed on the gun, but if they weren't actually on the gun, it'll have to be an officer with a gunnery qual to ride shotgun on the bridge.

-Is it reasonable to have a "radio/sonar department" that might consist of an NCO and a couple of enlisted men, or were those duties entrusted to the enlisted alone?

-Right now, I've got two NCOs with torpedo qualifications, one for fore and aft. Is that historically the way it went, or what's the real deal?

-Historically, would there have been an NCO with watchman qualifications on the bridge of a surfaced U-boat at all times?

-Historically, who was responsible for the decoding of Enigma traffic?

-What's the proper mix of ranks and the like aboard a VIIB?

Finally, is there a mod that allows me to use the original German-language ranks without a lot of hassle? I'm saving the GWX install for after I complete this career, so keep that in mind.