Weak engines after 1st Sinking

[Reed1941]

Originally Posted by Sammy-rai

@blackswan40 - thanx for the reply. While comparing your F7 picture with my own F7 screen, I pressed 'I' and noticed a tool tip that an external torpedo was being moved. So I time compressed until that torpedo got loaded into Tube 1 and then everything was good to go. Higher speeds were then available.



So the explanation for my u-boat's sudden speed limitation is that higher speeds are not allowed while moving external torpedoes around. Makes sense but I wish that there was a more obvious indicator when torpedoes get moved. Us newbies need all the help we can get.


Anyway, appreciate the quick response and here is a pic of my active mods courtesy of JSGME, just in case:

You can disable the auto-reloading of external torpedoes if I recall correctly, should be a check mark on your torpedo & ammo management screen.


Gute Jagd,


Reed

[Mad Mardigan]

Originally Posted by Reed1941

You can disable the auto-reloading of external torpedoes if I recall correctly, should be a check mark on your torpedo & ammo management screen.


Gute Jagd,


Reed

And.... that would be incorrect, if I am not mistaken.

It is not with the reloading of external torps into the interior, but rather instead... reloading of tubes, after you've fired off said torps in the tubes.

That, is what that check box controls... the reloading of tubes, automatically.



M. M.

[Reed1941]

Originally Posted by Mad Mardigan

And.... that would be incorrect, if I am not mistaken.

It is not with the reloading of external torps into the interior, but rather instead... reloading of tubes, after you've fired off said torps in the tubes.

That, is what that check box controls... the reloading of tubes, automatically.



M. M.

You are right, of course. I've mixed it up, thanks for pointing it out.





Gute Jagd,


Reed

[Mad Mardigan]

Originally Posted by Reed1941

You are right, of course. I've mixed it up, thanks for pointing it out.





Gute Jagd,


Reed

No prob...

just pointed out the error, is all & just know... even I've erred on occasion, Myself. It happens.



M. M.

[Mad Mardigan]

Originally Posted by Reed1941

You can disable the auto-reloading of external torpedoes if I recall correctly, should be a check mark on your torpedo & ammo management screen.


Gute Jagd,


Reed

Reloading the internal stock pile of your torps, from the external stores locations... is done manually... & requires you to select the torps... &... have the necessary man power aka crew in the room, for the transfer to take place, for 1... 2ndly, depending on the exact nature of the beast... aka mod set you have... that may or may not take place, if certain conditions are not met.

Such as having fair weather, meaning no rain, no heavy winds or seas... if not both. & in some, even reloading the torp tubes may have criteria to be met, in order to even be able to reload them... if bad weather, you'd have to submerge to a preset depth, in order to even attempt to reload.

This does not even include... if you begin a torp transfer from external stores to internal... of not being able to... instantly stop the transfer & crash dive... immediately. Some mod sets, will either continue the transfer, necessitating your having to have the crew man the flak gun (in the event an aircraft finds you while that transfer is ongoing... deck gun, if it's a escort surface ship, or bigger warship... then all you can do in that instance is... pray...), & fight it out until either the torp transfer is completed... or it's stuffed back into its locker, on the exterior of the sub.... then... & only then... if you haven't been sunk or seriously damaged... can you even call for a crash dive.

[FUBAR295]

After 1943 I stop carrying external eels as it is difficult to even find a safe location to bring them aboard.

[Mad Mardigan]

Originally Posted by FUBAR295

After 1943 I stop carrying external eels as it is difficult to even find a safe location to bring them aboard.

Yeah, with SH3... is possible through the use of a mod (for SH3Commander) to have them, not loaded in the external bays... though... you can, depending on the orders given... load up a couple... as would be the case in actuality... as was done back then. Even then, keeping in mind to load only the... T-I's... only. Believe those were the ones that were low maintenance... if memory serves Me rightly & were better able to handle being stored externally.

I like you, begin culling loading them as well. Not only with 3, but also in My SH4 U-boat set up, as well. Sadly... is no Commander, for 4, as there is for 3 though... so, have to do all that manually... & can't even properly use the refit option available, so as to avoid having those areas restocked.



M. M.

[John Pancoast]

Originally Posted by Mad Mardigan

Yeah, with SH3... is possible through the use of a mod (for SH3Commander) to have them, not loaded in the external bays... though... you can, depending on the orders given... load up a couple... as would be the case in actuality... as was done back then. Even then, keeping in mind to load only the... T-I's... only. Believe those were the ones that were low maintenance... if memory serves Me rightly & were better able to handle being stored externally.

I like you, begin culling loading them as well. Not only with 3, but also in My SH4 U-boat set up, as well. Sadly... is no Commander, for 4, as there is for 3 though... so, have to do all that manually... & can't even properly use the refit option available, so as to avoid having those areas restocked.



M. M.

Actually after 5/43 they were removed from the boats for a variety of reasons, maintenance requirements not being an issue. It is very easy to make a mod to remove them from the boats.
Damage from depth charging/sea pressure when going deep, containers leaking, etc. were the main reasons for getting rid of them.
Speaking of maintenance, u-boats leaving port tended to first have all their tubes loaded with only steam torpedoes vs. the electric ones.........due to their lower in voyage maintenance requirements.