Enemy Guns and You

Reinhard Dietz · 05-14-10, 03:05 PM

Make all the snarky remarks you want! I was under the impression that reloading a single tube for a U-boat was a 20-30 minute job under normal circumstances and half an hour or so for reloading all six in an XXI. IIRC, a fully-efficient crew in stock SHIII can reload in 7'30", which is probably what I'm unconsciously comparing this to.

I think it's something to do with utterly inefficient crewing, which is what I can usually see. Even being at battle stations doesn't seem to affect it much. Mutineers! Wreckers! Defeatists; I'll deal with you all!

Sailor Steve · 05-14-10, 06:54 PM

I've been under the impression that ten minutes was about average, but I could be wrong. Your forty-five sounds like everybody's asleep and taking turns one at a time.

Reinhard Dietz · 05-15-10, 03:30 PM

It sure seems like it, Steve. Meanwhile, can I use AAA and/or torpedoes against deck guns, or am I going to have to count on a list to mask their fields of fire?

Sailor Steve · 05-15-10, 05:55 PM

I have no clue. I never stay surfaced in the presence of anything that can shoot me.

I'm a coward...I mean a sensible skipper.

JoeCorrado · 07-05-10, 02:36 PM

Quote:

Originally Posted by Sailor Steve

I've been under the impression that ten minutes was about average, but I could be wrong. Your forty-five sounds like everybody's asleep and taking turns one at a time.

My guys, on the third patrol are taking about twenty minutes to reload each tube. Twenty minutes is a lifetime.

edit: Actually they take about twenty minutes for the first fish, and ten minutes for each one there after.

green_abobo · 07-10-10, 08:49 PM

personally i just enjoy the title of this thread.

it's like some kind of public service announcement pamphlet warning against the dangers of sexually transmitted diseases or the like.

05-14-10, 03:05 PM	#1
Reinhard Dietz Machinist's Mate Join Date: Jun 2007 Location: Lorient Posts: 121 Downloads: 27 Uploads: 0	Make all the snarky remarks you want! I was under the impression that reloading a single tube for a U-boat was a 20-30 minute job under normal circumstances and half an hour or so for reloading all six in an XXI. IIRC, a fully-efficient crew in stock SHIII can reload in 7'30", which is probably what I'm unconsciously comparing this to. I think it's something to do with utterly inefficient crewing, which is what I can usually see. Even being at battle stations doesn't seem to affect it much. Mutineers! Wreckers! Defeatists; I'll deal with you all! __________________ Reinhard Dietz U-126 2. Unterseebootsflottille, Lorient

05-14-10, 06:54 PM	#2
Sailor Steve Eternal Patrol Join Date: Nov 2002 Location: High in the mountains of Utah Posts: 50,369 Downloads: 745 Uploads: 249	I've been under the impression that ten minutes was about average, but I could be wrong. Your forty-five sounds like everybody's asleep and taking turns one at a time. __________________ “Never do anything you can't take back.” —Rocky Russo

05-15-10, 03:30 PM	#3
Reinhard Dietz Machinist's Mate Join Date: Jun 2007 Location: Lorient Posts: 121 Downloads: 27 Uploads: 0	It sure seems like it, Steve. Meanwhile, can I use AAA and/or torpedoes against deck guns, or am I going to have to count on a list to mask their fields of fire? __________________ Reinhard Dietz U-126 2. Unterseebootsflottille, Lorient

05-15-10, 05:55 PM	#4
Sailor Steve Eternal Patrol Join Date: Nov 2002 Location: High in the mountains of Utah Posts: 50,369 Downloads: 745 Uploads: 249	I have no clue. I never stay surfaced in the presence of anything that can shoot me. I'm a coward...I mean a sensible skipper. __________________ “Never do anything you can't take back.” —Rocky Russo

07-10-10, 08:49 PM	#6
green_abobo Sparky Join Date: Jan 2009 Location: running silent 700 meters off your starboard bow.. Posts: 152 Downloads: 50 Uploads: 0	personally i just enjoy the title of this thread. it's like some kind of public service announcement pamphlet warning against the dangers of sexually transmitted diseases or the like. __________________