Big problem, need help

[commandosolo2009]

Originally Posted by Sailor Steve

You do what you have to to save the game. That said, you obviously used much less than 47% to get there in the first place. Something has to be wrong, and battery damage looks like the probably culprit. this is a known bug in SH4, and something to watch for.

This was a lesson learned the hard way. Once batteries/diesel busted, pray, plot, and play. a 50% indicated charge on a battery with damage will consume diesel unless you turn off surface recharge (to which I assigned a hotkey).

Also, I never recharge the battery except when under 25% pre-AO. Even with all maneuvers with aircrafts and randomly spawning destroyers.

Once in the AO, surface recharge is performed second nature.

Point is, with all gimmicks before actually reaching the AO, one charge (base charge) is enough.

With that being said, it differs according to AO, since dusting -off pearl and heading to Jap territorial waters you probably encounter less traffic in the 4k + leg, whereas, Brisbane-Java/Sulu would demand more drills and hence risk running dry in such shallow waters with frequent contacts dictates a frequent routing recharge, since underwater, your evasion depends in shallows on speed of RPMs being minimal, evading with range rather than depth.