DC team composition

[Torvald Von Mansee]

How do you like to mix it up? Who do you like leading the team?

[Platapus]

That is a good question that I would also like to know about.

I do know that like most things SH4 does things differently from SH3.

Perhaps it is explained in the well written and exaustive SH4 game manual?

Uh no.

Is it a good idea to have a crew of trained specialists dedicated for DC?

Or is it better to have your trained people manning the station and manually swap them out during damage repair?

[Torvald Von Mansee]

Originally Posted by Platapus

Perhaps it is explained in the well written and exaustive SH4 game manual?

:rotfl::rotfl::rotfl::rotfl::rotfl::rotfl::rotfl:

I'm somewhat confused about what I should be doing. Should I put an officer in command who has, say, innate Mechanical and trained for Command? Or innate Command, trained for Engines? Something else?

I supposed that the innate abilities of the enlisted men making up the rest of the team should be split between Electrical and Mechanical, but I wonder if they should have a mix of ratings as you don't know WHAT they'll repair, but I also wonder if that's at all relevant!!!

[Rockin Robbins]

I've always believed in recruiting a full raw (free) DC crew at the beginning of my career and letting them accumulate experience based on the misfortunes we encounter. I staff every position on the submarine, leaving no blanks. Yes, this means that my gun crew gets injured during depth charge attacks, a bug that I don't know if 1.5 fixed.

Hey, you asked!:rotfl:There must be a better way but I just have no interest in efficient crew management. That's what my exec and chief of the boat are for.

[aanker]

I don't have a clue either but I keep 2 - 3 slots in DC empty for sorting the entire crew later. Once on patrol I sort the entire crew by their abilities at each station keeping the lowest in DC (with the highest of those with 'high' leadership to run the team). Then I just leave them alone.... lol

Happy Hunting!

Art

[Torvald Von Mansee]

Gah!! It just seems to me that the handbook could have added a cumulative total of like FOUR paragraphs that couild have explained the entire game (not just DC) a LOT better!!! I mean, after all the work of writing the code for the game and KNOWING how everything works, why is the handbook such an afterthought? I just feels like the project got a little rushed to market.