Hit by shell, destroyed by secondary explosion?

[Keelbuster]

Originally Posted by Kaleu_Mihoo

no, this is a known bug.
When your conning tower is destroyed and the watch crew is dead, SHIII tries to man it automatically, just how it is done when U surface the boat. And because there is no conning tower, they all die by an automatic try to man it
hope it helps
regards

ARg - a bug. I had this image of fire belching down the conning tower and into the control room...igniting fuel stores and blasting down the compartments. It was a hideous and glorious image. From the surface, a little flash, then a burst of flame cracking the boat in half and then it surges down into a pool of fire. I've now replaced that with the image of men running up the conning tower and suddenly dying..one after another...until there are no more. I hate to admit it, but I think you're right - i remember now that my death message was 'not enough crew to man the boat'. Arg.

[GoldenRivet]

you could always pretend it was the first version

I suppose if you dont have anyone in any crew compartments when you decide to run down an armed tanker ie - they are all assigned to repair detail or in engine/ torpedo rooms they wont go clammering upthe ladder to auto death.