Handling the Enlisted Men

[JScones]

Originally Posted by Reinhard Dietz

Quick question: Is there any rhyme or reason as to why enlisted men would be transferred off of a U-boat? The reason I'm asking is that I don't want to use the 'realistic transfers' option in SH3C, since that would probably cost me my uber-LI, and that's not permissible.

Any input's appreciated.

1. Promotion. That Matrosen may well be ready for the next step, but do you have a vacancy at the Gefreiter level in your boat? While you can do it in SH3, in RL you wouldn't have a torpedoroom full of SNCOs. You had your one SNCO, a few JNCOs, and the balance ORs.

Further, that sailor who you recommend for JNCO, the JNCO who you recommend for SNCO, the SNCO who you recommend for officer school, all need to go to formal training...off your boat....and they won't come back.

2. Training. Qualifications shouldn't just magically appear on a sailor's sleeve. Training takes men off your boat, and once they are gone, they rarely come back to the same boat.

3. Infractions. Fights, insubordination, poor discipline and general anti-social behaviour will see a crewman, if not arrested, then certainly kicked off a boat.

4. AWOL. Failing to return from leave.

5. Crewman initiated transfer requests. For various reasons.

6. Command initiated transfers. For various reasons, such as moving crew to fill other depleted crews.

I let SH3Cmdr do its thing. Surprisingly, the dev said that crew transfers, like practically all of SH3Cmdr's features, is based on what occurred in RL (at least insofar as documentation/records exist) and thus takes all of the above into consideration. And who am I to argue with him, great guy that he is?

[Weiss Pinguin]

Originally Posted by JScones

I let SH3Cmdr do its thing. Surprisingly, the dev said that crew transfers, like practically all of SH3Cmdr's features, is based on what occurred in RL (at least insofar as documentation/records exist) and thus takes all of the above into consideration. And who am I to argue with him, great guy that he is?

Exactly

[Reinhard Dietz]

Ah, splendid. Those details are something I can work with. After 11 war patrols, I've got a boat full of promoted NCOs and EMs swimming in Iron Crosses who've been with me from the beginning and I'm sure that's not accurate, although it's great for efficiency. Any idea of how long the average tenure aboard a boat was?

Do you know of a way I could switch over to using the German-language ranks? As I understand it, SH3C reads what's in the game, and I could use a little conversion assistance. Meanwhile, who am I to argue with the developer of that marvelous utility? I just wish a version of it existed for SHIV.

(I remain hesitant to sacrifice my uber-LI to the whims of the Kriegsmarine personnel office, though. I've already sent four of my officers off to command school and will send my IWO as soon as we return from the next patrol. Needless to say, a boat full of sublieutenants doesn't do much for efficiency.)

[Jimbuna]

Must agree with Jaesen but on a personal gameing note....I trained em I keep em