Handling the Enlisted Men

[JScones]

Originally Posted by Reinhard Dietz

Quick question: Is there any rhyme or reason as to why enlisted men would be transferred off of a U-boat? The reason I'm asking is that I don't want to use the 'realistic transfers' option in SH3C, since that would probably cost me my uber-LI, and that's not permissible.

Any input's appreciated.

1. Promotion. That Matrosen may well be ready for the next step, but do you have a vacancy at the Gefreiter level in your boat? While you can do it in SH3, in RL you wouldn't have a torpedoroom full of SNCOs. You had your one SNCO, a few JNCOs, and the balance ORs.

Further, that sailor who you recommend for JNCO, the JNCO who you recommend for SNCO, the SNCO who you recommend for officer school, all need to go to formal training...off your boat....and they won't come back.

2. Training. Qualifications shouldn't just magically appear on a sailor's sleeve. Training takes men off your boat, and once they are gone, they rarely come back to the same boat.

3. Infractions. Fights, insubordination, poor discipline and general anti-social behaviour will see a crewman, if not arrested, then certainly kicked off a boat.

4. AWOL. Failing to return from leave.

5. Crewman initiated transfer requests. For various reasons.

6. Command initiated transfers. For various reasons, such as moving crew to fill other depleted crews.

I let SH3Cmdr do its thing. Surprisingly, the dev said that crew transfers, like practically all of SH3Cmdr's features, is based on what occurred in RL (at least insofar as documentation/records exist) and thus takes all of the above into consideration. And who am I to argue with him, great guy that he is?