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Weps
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You do realize that in SH3 you can teleport home from anywhere on the globe?
Not very realistic, but it can be done. You don't have to get to some minimum distance from home port.
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I prefer the realism from it. At 25 klicks, a tug could likely reach you and pull you into port.
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Even docking can be a challenge but I find it very satisfying to draw up alongside the quay and order "Alle Maschinen stop!". Even when it is necessary to use another base or supply ship because reaching the home base is not possible . . . |
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That's nice, and I agree, but if your rudders are destroyed you can't sail home. Your choices are RTB or career over.
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In SH3, if you are not running at 100% realism, you can end patrol from anywhere in the world and you will magically return to base.
If you try to do this at 100% realism you will only be allowed to "abandon career". As was pointed out, in real life you can steer the boat using the propellers. If one or both rudders were jammed hard over this might be harder but I'm betting you could still do it with one screw running in reverse at some speed while the other runs forward. I think, once or twice, I have run into a "stranded" situation due to both diesel engines being destroyed. What I have done is surface the boat and crank up the TC. If I can go 3 days without contact with the enemy, then I assume that Germany was able to send someone to rescue us. Steve |
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Alas, SH3 does not allow you the option of running on just one engine like SH2 did.
In real life, you can run each engine at a different speed and each prop in a different direction simultaneous. This is often done whenever a very fast, hard turn must be made - throw the rudder hard over, reverse one engine at full speed and run the other engine full ahead.
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Well, we were almost home when group of destroyers and a cruiser showed up. I dove to periscope depth and hoped for the best, but in the end, the U-65 was sent to the depths of the briny deep with all hands by ramming. Tommy always wins somehow, doesn't he?
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I thank all for your help and advice, and wish you all wel on your own careers. Gött segne.
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...surely, as Captain you will make the right (most realistic) decision for you and your crew. imagine what would really happen and then script that into your situation.
you'd probably be picked up - then the boat toed in under darkness. the game doesn't allow for this so you could RTB - teleport within the 25 klmts. I think that's allowable and honourable too. you can only work within the parameters of the game - after that its artistic licence/imagination. I wouldn't consider a RTB a cop-out. I would do this - an RTB, because its all that's available within the game other than abandon patrol, which isn't necessary because you have RTB within the realism of your situation: GET HOME. YOU SURVIVED! ![]()
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