Destroyed engines?

AVGWarhawk · 05-19-07, 01:07 PM

Dead in the water. Start a new career and make it a learning experience. That is what I do. Sucks but it is what it is.

To bad we can not run each engine individually. That would be a neat trick

CaptainHaplo · 05-19-07, 01:12 PM

I have never had this happen so I cant answer, but I can throw out one possibility - IF the game still lets you charge batteries. If so - then submerge - run electrics all the way home. Yes - its a slow trip at 2 knots, but if you want to save the career (and dont just want to load the a save) then this may be the only way to do it. Good Luck either way!

GoldenRivet · 05-19-07, 01:14 PM

what about your electric motors? can you submerge and proceed on those? i heard that SH4 magically recharges them when your surfaced. go on the electrics til they are dead, surface and let them charge.

OlegM · 05-19-07, 01:30 PM

Well it's kinda stupid...... any similar examples in historic sub literature? I mean I've read my share of sub related books but have never seen the case of sub being stranded due to destroyed engines. If the engines are beyond repair then the whole sub oughta been sunk, no?

CaptainHaplo · 05-19-07, 03:51 PM

One would think so - although the USS Jack chugged under the Golden Gate bridge with one engine out of four - but that was due to the design (HOR engines) vs battle damage. Any battle damage that would destroy the engines - or damage them sufficient to make them inoperable - would destroy the sub one would think.

Here we see where the damage model still needs work....

NefariousKoel · 05-19-07, 04:43 PM

Yeah, looks like you're swimming home.

I started a new career after my rudder got blown off and I could only do about 2 knots going in a straight line due to all the engine room damage/flooding. It eventually would've put me in occupied Indochina. Game over, man! Game over!

OlegM · 05-20-07, 09:25 AM

I've never heard of the otherwise usable sub being abandoned because of engine trouble. Another sub would be sent to tow my sub, or more likely to bring spare parts to make at least some diesels usable to limp home.

At the very least my crew would be transferred to another sub before my sub is scuttled.

Never mind, what I want to say is the game should never allow pointless situations like these. Either the whole sub should be sunk, or there should be "Abandon ship" button that would "simulate" my crew being taken by another sub back to base.

McBeck · 05-21-07, 05:55 AM

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Originally Posted by GoldenRivet

what about your electric motors? can you submerge and proceed on those? i heard that SH4 magically recharges them when your surfaced. go on the electrics til they are dead, surface and let them charge.

Thats what I heard too...never tried it though...my PC just got fried

05-19-07, 01:07 PM	#1
AVGWarhawk Lucky Jack Join Date: Jun 2005 Location: In a 1954 Buick. Posts: 28,271 Downloads: 90 Uploads: 0	Dead in the water. Start a new career and make it a learning experience. That is what I do. Sucks but it is what it is. To bad we can not run each engine individually. That would be a neat trick __________________ “You're painfully alive in a drugged and dying culture.” ― Richard Yates, Revolutionary Road

05-19-07, 01:12 PM	#2
CaptainHaplo Silent Hunter Join Date: Apr 2007 Posts: 4,404 Downloads: 29 Uploads: 0	I have never had this happen so I cant answer, but I can throw out one possibility - IF the game still lets you charge batteries. If so - then submerge - run electrics all the way home. Yes - its a slow trip at 2 knots, but if you want to save the career (and dont just want to load the a save) then this may be the only way to do it. Good Luck either way! __________________ Good Hunting! Captain Haplo

05-19-07, 01:14 PM	#3
GoldenRivet Subsim Aviator Join Date: Mar 2007 Location: Texas Posts: 8,726 Downloads: 146 Uploads: 0	what about your electric motors? can you submerge and proceed on those? i heard that SH4 magically recharges them when your surfaced. go on the electrics til they are dead, surface and let them charge. __________________

05-19-07, 03:51 PM	#5
CaptainHaplo Silent Hunter Join Date: Apr 2007 Posts: 4,404 Downloads: 29 Uploads: 0	One would think so - although the USS Jack chugged under the Golden Gate bridge with one engine out of four - but that was due to the design (HOR engines) vs battle damage. Any battle damage that would destroy the engines - or damage them sufficient to make them inoperable - would destroy the sub one would think. Here we see where the damage model still needs work.... __________________ Good Hunting! Captain Haplo

05-19-07, 04:43 PM	#6
NefariousKoel Ace of the Deep Join Date: Nov 2002 Location: No-good Missouri scum Posts: 1,223 Downloads: 43 Uploads: 0	Yeah, looks like you're swimming home. I started a new career after my rudder got blown off and I could only do about 2 knots going in a straight line due to all the engine room damage/flooding. It eventually would've put me in occupied Indochina. Game over, man! Game over! __________________ "When Gary told me he had found Jesus, I thought, Yahoo! We're rich! But it turned out to be something different." - Jack Handey

05-19-07, 01:30 PM	#4
OlegM Engineer Join Date: Dec 2001 Posts: 214 Downloads: 7 Uploads: 0	Well it's kinda stupid...... any similar examples in historic sub literature? I mean I've read my share of sub related books but have never seen the case of sub being stranded due to destroyed engines. If the engines are beyond repair then the whole sub oughta been sunk, no?

05-20-07, 09:25 AM	#7
OlegM Engineer Join Date: Dec 2001 Posts: 214 Downloads: 7 Uploads: 0	I've never heard of the otherwise usable sub being abandoned because of engine trouble. Another sub would be sent to tow my sub, or more likely to bring spare parts to make at least some diesels usable to limp home. At the very least my crew would be transferred to another sub before my sub is scuttled. Never mind, what I want to say is the game should never allow pointless situations like these. Either the whole sub should be sunk, or there should be "Abandon ship" button that would "simulate" my crew being taken by another sub back to base.

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