Can the uboat just spontaneously combust?

Sailingowl · 05-01-20, 11:34 AM

I was on my way back home from a rather uneventful patrol, maybe 100 km west of Helgoland. The weather was 15m/s winds, no rain, overcast. I'm cruising along on the surface at medium speed when at 22:21 suddenly I get the alert that I'm taking damage. Diesel engines, conning tower, deck gun, flak gun, command room, sonar station, stern quarters all red, the Watch officer dead in the tower. Bow and stern torpedoes, bow quarters, electric all yellow. Flooding all over the place. Port and Starboard diesels out. I put all hands and an officer on damage control and they got the control room flooding under control but it was too late and the sub went down.

No map contacts, no warning that I was under attack (I looked back to double check), nothing just a sudden "we're taking damage" message.

What the heck happened? Can the uboat go boom on me like that?

Running on SH3 Commander and GWX.

05-01-20, 11:34 AM	#1
Sailingowl Watch Join Date: Mar 2020 Location: Sweden Posts: 18 Downloads: 4 Uploads: 0	Can the uboat just spontaneously combust? I was on my way back home from a rather uneventful patrol, maybe 100 km west of Helgoland. The weather was 15m/s winds, no rain, overcast. I'm cruising along on the surface at medium speed when at 22:21 suddenly I get the alert that I'm taking damage. Diesel engines, conning tower, deck gun, flak gun, command room, sonar station, stern quarters all red, the Watch officer dead in the tower. Bow and stern torpedoes, bow quarters, electric all yellow. Flooding all over the place. Port and Starboard diesels out. I put all hands and an officer on damage control and they got the control room flooding under control but it was too late and the sub went down. No map contacts, no warning that I was under attack (I looked back to double check), nothing just a sudden "we're taking damage" message. What the heck happened? Can the uboat go boom on me like that? Running on SH3 Commander and GWX.