Liferafts

[rditto48801]

Originally Posted by tomoose

I'm playing at very irregular intervals but I think there may be something to the 'lack of lifeboats' comment. I'm running TMO and, maybe it's just my imagination, but there's seems to be a distinct lack of lifeboats in this TMO than previous versions. Curious.

On a different note I've yet to receive a mission to find downed pilots (although I'm not sure I'm at the correct time period for this type of mission to be tasked).

I am in mid 1942 (patrol 6 or 7 iirc, playing stock), and I have not got assigned any missions to rescue downed pilots. I am not sure if or when there is a right time period for effective life guard duty missions to pop up.

Oddly enough, I have strayed across downed pilots if I return to Pearl Harbor and I come close to the west side of the island... some of the US pilots seem to like to fly into the ground, including a small twin engine bomber (B-24?) and one of the search planes (landed upside down...)

Then watching the red smoke 'drift' from land to the water....
Then needing ahead full or flank to catch up with their 'power drifting' once they are in the water...


In stock, I have noticed that it seems a bit random as far as how many life boats there are.
One big transport dumped at least a dozen life boats (half of which soon vanished), one other one (same type, different time/location) launched maybe 3-4 when it went down.

I wonder if the location and type of damage, and how the ship sinks and how long it takes to sink, has any bearing on how many life boats are launched.

For example, of big transports, the one that launched a dozen life boats took a few torpedoes, but took upwards of 10 minutes to sink. The other one that launched only 3-4 had major fireworks after the first torpedo hit and then two more torpedoes and it went down fairly quick.