The different U-Boats in SH3+GWX3

[TabbyHunter]

Hmm, i dunno if anyone will know this, but if so, can anyone tell me how to adjust the crush depth for my IXB to say, 300m? As i don't have GWX, as much as i want it, the IXB has a pitiful crush depth of about 170m.

And, if you get better at avoiding depth charges, atleast for me, the Type IXB can be very effective at escaping, though it may take a while.

[Gargamel]

You should be able to to edit that in some of the .cfg files. I think it's contained in the basic.cfg.

Commander will allow you to randomize the crush depth.

Have you tested the boat to that depth yet? Or are you just going off the dial? I don't think the dial's change when you change boats. At least they haven't for me. So it's always 100m Green, 180 Yellow, 240 Red. I took a XXI down to about 400m and the dial was pegged the whole time.

[gazpode_l]

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[King_Zog]

Thanks to everyone who reponded to my question, It was interesting to read your opinions.

Originally Posted by gazpode_l

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Perhaps the first figure is safe operating depth and the second is either max depth or crush depth. I'm not too sure if there ever was a 'dead on' figure for a boat's real crush depth as this would imply that they would have had to test the uboat to destruction. I guess crush depth was just estimated mathematically by the design engineers? Perhaps someone else knows more about this...

I like to refer to uboat.net for information about the German submarines, you can see their page about the different uboat types here if you are interested:

http://www.uboat.net/types/

[Tom]

Originally Posted by gazpode_l

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When a submarine is designed, all strength calculations are based on a chosen design depth. This means that if the submarine is built properly (and there were no design errors), it should survive to that depth without crushing. Usually the calculations would allow for some margin of error, so the actual crush depth would normally be a bit deeper than the design depth.

Test depth is a percentage of design depth, usually between 1/2 and 2/3 of design depth (depending on navy policy, I believe). During sea trials every boat is taken to this depth to verify that there are no problems. This depth is considered the safe operating depth of the boat.

A VIIC, for example, is listed at 150/250. This means that every boat is tested at 150 meters during sea trials, and that the ship was designed to be able to dive another 100 meters deeper. Depending on construction quality and calculation error margins, the boat will most likely crush somewhere between 230-300 meters.