Funny patrol result ...

[={FH}=Paddy]

Get the Scrabble out, crack open the rum rations and wait for it all to come to a bubbly end.....................!!

[Bosje]

if it's early in the war, you might be just below their depthcharges which they may set to 150 meters. Sit tight, cut the engines and keep the planes on dive (thus keeping yourself grounded) while repairing all repairable damage and getting all the flooded water out of the boat and only then try to come up by blowing all you have.

I survived a similar ordeal once (although I wasn't quite as badly damaged)

much flooding after significant DC damage, grounded around 180 meters with the 12 or so DD's from warspite taskforce above me. They sailed off after a couple hours by which time most damage was repaired and the water from the flooding was gradually being pumped out. Only then did I blow all the remaining air and we made it back home.

Good luck with the engine/fuel situation though

[Jimbuna]

Bend over, stick your head between yer legs.....and kiss your hairy little ar$e goodbye.

[ppk]

Hehe well it turns out I made it. Repaired and pumped for a while and then time accelerated for a few hours to make sure I'd be alone when I went up. The worst was getting the boat moving at all... The dive planes were ''Damaged'' too so maybe that didn't help. The batteries were so low on juice that they only ever managed 1 knot but I made it to the surface (eventually ...). Apparently the return to base button didn't mind I was out of fuel because it took me right back to Lorient .

It was either that or waiting for the next DD to finish me.. I think there should be the ''abandon ship'' option for those situations though. Has anyone ever made a mod that included this? Oh and it was still happy time... late '40. That probably contributed to the DDs not finishing me.

[Graf Paper]

It's a little known secret of WWII that the U-bootwaffe possessed tugboats with hyperdrives.

Isn't there is an "Abandon Career" choice in the menu that comes up when you hit Esc to leave a mission? Now you've got me wondering!

I do know that Jaesen's excellent SH3 Commander has the option of allowing your Personnel File to show that you abandoned ship and were taken as a POW.

Anyways, glad you made it out of there safe. That won't happen again after you reach 1942.

[StarFox]

There needs to be a "surrender" button....Some of the time I would much rather end up in New York then being shot at by 5 destroyers until I die.

Wasn't there an abandon ship button in Silent Hunter II?

[ppk]

Originally Posted by Graf Paper

That won't happen again after you reach 1942.

On that subject, I was wondering - When is it exactly that the Allies get advanced sonar? Is it randomized so it's a big surprise every time?

[Brag]

Glad to hear you made it. Drinks are on you.

[Red Heat]

Originally Posted by ppk

On that subject, I was wondering - When is it exactly that the Allies get advanced sonar? Is it randomized so it's a big surprise every time?

Training dificult...easy combat!
You make it, welcome...

[BasilY]

Originally Posted by Graf Paper

It's a little known secret of WWII that the U-bootwaffe possessed tugboats with hyperdrives.

Isn't there is an "Abandon Career" choice in the menu that comes up when you hit Esc to leave a mission? Now you've got me wondering!

I do know that Jaesen's excellent SH3 Commander has the option of allowing your Personnel File to show that you abandoned ship and were taken as a POW.

Anyways, glad you made it out of there safe. That won't happen again after you reach 1942.

I think if you play at 100% you get the "Abandon Career" option, if you don't play at 100%. you get the "return to base" option (the famed magic carpet)