Some info on "hero skills"

Sailor Steve · 04-14-08, 10:55 AM

I can see it now: "No, sir. Sorry, sir, but I've forgotten how to do that...but I learned how to do this instead..."

I had not heard about fleet boats having trouble keeping diesels running, but I've read that the PT boats in the Solomons were so isolated that they were always having breakdowns in their gasoline aircraft engines. Forty knots was a pipe dream for them; hence the song:

Some PTs do seventy-five and some do sixty-nine;
If we get ours to run at all, we think we're doing fine.

ccruner13 · 04-14-08, 12:02 PM

i was just about to post what wilcke said pretty much. some of them are fairly realistic as in above average guys on the hydrophones will know more faster or some one with well trained eyes will spots ships sooner but noone can make torpedos faster and do more damage among other mentioned things. none of my guys learned skills in my uboat..i had to 'buy' them all. one of my officers is rank 11 and no skill still almost 12 if there is such a rank

04-14-08, 10:55 AM	#1
Sailor Steve Eternal Patrol Join Date: Nov 2002 Location: High in the mountains of Utah Posts: 50,369 Downloads: 745 Uploads: 249	I can see it now: "No, sir. Sorry, sir, but I've forgotten how to do that...but I learned how to do this instead..." I had not heard about fleet boats having trouble keeping diesels running, but I've read that the PT boats in the Solomons were so isolated that they were always having breakdowns in their gasoline aircraft engines. Forty knots was a pipe dream for them; hence the song: Some PTs do seventy-five and some do sixty-nine; If we get ours to run at all, we think we're doing fine. __________________ “Never do anything you can't take back.” —Rocky Russo

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04-14-08, 12:02 PM	#2
ccruner13 Navy Dude Join Date: Mar 2007 Posts: 175 Downloads: 2 Uploads: 0	i was just about to post what wilcke said pretty much. some of them are fairly realistic as in above average guys on the hydrophones will know more faster or some one with well trained eyes will spots ships sooner but noone can make torpedos faster and do more damage among other mentioned things. none of my guys learned skills in my uboat..i had to 'buy' them all. one of my officers is rank 11 and no skill still almost 12 if there is such a rank