Okay... how do I drop supplies...

[Torplexed]

I've never understood why some of the U-Boats missions direct you to deliver supplies for the Japanese through friendly uncontested waters like some sort of exotic merchant vessel. Couldn't someone find a spare sampan for the job and release the U-Boat for more important tasks? Sounds unhistorical too.

[peabody]

Originally Posted by Torplexed

I've never understood why some of the U-Boats missions direct you to deliver supplies for the Japanese through friendly uncontested waters like some sort of exotic merchant vessel. Couldn't someone find a spare sampan for the job and release the U-Boat for more important tasks? Sounds unhistorical too.

Probably the mission was already written and they reused it.

Peabody

[Torplexed]

Originally Posted by peabody

Probably the mission was already written and they reused it.

Peabody

Swell.

You think they could have re-written them along plausible historical lines. Maybe you have to drop some agents off in the Middle East to stir up trouble for the British or deliver supplies to Subhas Chandra Bose's Indian Independence Movement to undermine their authority there.

Oh well...rant over.

[Lord Kelvin]

Yeah, for resupply missions, agent deployments, and dropping off Marines, you have to stop the boat itself. For the latter two I think you might also have to do it at night (at least it forced me to do it at night), but for supply drops I'm pretty sure you can do it in the daytime.


Though once when I did a supply drop, the rubber raft somehow capsized as it deployed, so I ended up leaving the area while watching the two men in the raft row towards shore upside-down...

[peabody]

Originally Posted by Lord Kelvin

Though once when I did a supply drop, the rubber raft somehow capsized as it deployed, so I ended up leaving the area while watching the two men in the raft row towards shore upside-down...

At least you don't do what I did and back out while turning and run them over.

Peabody

[MonTana_Prussian]

Originally Posted by peabody

At least you don't do what I did and back out while turning and run them over.

Peabody

I did that last night while inserting Guerillas on New Britain

[SteamWake]

Dont forget to mention.. thats the noisest rubber boat Ive ever heard !

[Rob Jacobsen]

Originally Posted by Lord Kelvin

Though once when I did a supply drop, the rubber raft somehow capsized as it deployed, so I ended up leaving the area while watching the two men in the raft row towards shore upside-down...

That happened to me, too. The next time, I tried it, I hit POSTPONE and waited several minutes to be sure my sub had come to a complete stop. Doing that kept me from running over the boat.

[Mad Mardigan]

Wake the dead.... wake the dead...

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[KaleunMarco]

Originally Posted by Mad Mardigan

Wake the dead.... wake the dead...

WAKE THE DEAD!!!

[propbeanie]

Don't let Aktungbby catch us, or we'll get a thread necro award:




but... I have gone to insert Commandoes, and they carry apparently carry a good bit of explosives, which makes for nice explosions and fire when you run them over...

tough guys, staying with the boat...

And these while at 3 knots, turning away to the port, and they STILL got into the side of the sub and did that... lol - I have even ordered Slow Reverse and right rudder, and they manage to get into the boat and either dunk themselves upside down, or blow-up and catch fire. You just never know if the raft crew will paddle left or right, foward or back... Thankfully, no damage done to the submarine, or the division commander would have our stripes...


PS: Maddy - your link seems to be private, or somethin'...

[Jeff-Groves]

There's an extra https in the link.
Proper link

[Sailor Steve]

Originally Posted by Torplexed

I've never understood why some of the U-Boats missions direct you to deliver supplies for the Japanese through friendly uncontested waters like some sort of exotic merchant vessel. Couldn't someone find a spare sampan for the job and release the U-Boat for more important tasks? Sounds unhistorical too.

The one I loved was when it assigned me to drop supplies at a friendly port. Eight ships either docked or at anchor, and I couldn't pull up to the dock and offload them directly? No, I had to stop in the harbor and lower the rubber dinghy.:rotfl:

[rubenandthejets]

Yeah, I got pretty annoyed at sailing halfway round the world to drop off supplies, passed a few convoys headed that way enroute.

Sod that.

I decided Uncle Karl might be more appreciative of my boat and crew, so I installed OM and I'm now having a lot more fun in the Atlantic (it's still "Happy Time").