Crew Skills

[Aktungbby]

grenadier98!

[Jimbuna]

Welcome to SubSim grenadier

[grenadier98]

Thanks for all your answers and your welcome greetings. I changed a few crewman and a Petty Officer and now I'm out on my first patrol in a Tambor Class Sub from Pearl Harbor to Japan to drop off a spy. I managed to sank a freighter with 8100 tons.

So far I couldn't figure out how to shoot a slavo... I've played SH 3 before and there it was possble to select several tubes at once and to adjust the angle. I didn't find this option anywhere in the Tambor Class.
Is it just my imagination or does a crash dive with a US sub takes forever compared to a German Type VII? I know that the US subs are much bigger, so maybe that's the reason.

[Rockin Robbins]

Originally Posted by grenadier98

So far I couldn't figure out how to shoot a slavo... I've played SH 3 before and there it was possble to select several tubes at once and to adjust the angle. I didn't find this option anywhere in the Tambor Class.
Is it just my imagination or does a crash dive with a US sub takes forever compared to a German Type VII? I know that the US subs are much bigger, so maybe that's the reason.

American and German subs both didn't fire multiple torpedoes at once. That a major defect in SH III. The reason is that when torpedos malfunction, and they do, you don't want a premature detonation of one torpedo exploding the others launched at the same time or throwing them off course.

It was standard practice for Germans and Americans to launch torpedoes at least 5 seconds apart.

The Type VII was a tiny sub, suited for coastal defense but not really suited to the open ocean warfare it was forced to engage. So it had to take on less water to dive, which took a shorter time and it could dive quicker. The Type IX, being in the same displacement class as the Amreican fleet boat, too comparable amounts of time to dive.

What the Type VII had to give up to achieve the quick diving times wasn't worth the exchange. The Germans required a far superior design to make any meaninful dent in the Allied convoys. They never got it. Instead they were stuck trying to run the Daytona 500 with a 1960s Volkswagon Beetle.

[fireftr18]

Originally Posted by Rockin Robbins

What the Type VII had to give up to achieve the quick diving times wasn't worth the exchange. The Germans required a far superior design to make any meaninful dent in the Allied convoys. They never got it. Instead they were stuck trying to run the Daytona 500 with a 1960s Volkswagon Beetle.

Welcome aboard Grenadier!

I'm assigning you personal assistant to Aktungboy. He needs all the help he can get.

[ColonelSandersLite]

Oh man. About a year ago or so, I saw a classic bug that somebody had hotrodded just parked in the walmart parking lot. It was painted metallic purple and the massive supercharged engine they put in it didn't even fit in the car and was hanging out the back on some sort of support rack. In order to improve traction, the rear tire size was increased to the point that the rear wheels didn't fit in the wheel wells at all so they extended the axels so that the whole rear wheel system was outside the car's normal limits. Honestly, my description probably doesn't do it justice, but it was really a pretty damn cool machine.

[Gibus]

Bonjour,

For my part, and despite numerous attempts, I have never been able to quantify the effectiveness of officers with specific skills.
Some, like the doctor, are not measurable. Others like the officer-machines, never brought any piece of additional knot, on the surface and underwater.
I gather that this is a pure marketing spiel.

But I'm wrong maybe ....