TWO KNOTS AT FLANK SPEED?

[Jimbuna]

Originally Posted by MantiBrutalis

Charging batteries in SH3 does not consume fuel. Doesn't really make a difference, if not abused.

Imagine the scene...you surface and drift because your out of fuel but suddenly as if by magic, your batteries are charged up.

To each their own I suppose but I certainly don't subscribe to that.

If you run out of fuel simply press the Esc key (if you must) and hyper drive back to base.

[VONHARRIS]

Originally Posted by Jimbuna

Imagine the scene...you surface and drift because your out of fuel but suddenly as if by magic, your batteries are charged up.

To each their own I suppose but I certainly don't subscribe to that.

If you run out of fuel simply press the Esc key (if you must) and hyper drive back to base.

For me in that occasion : Scuttle the U-boot and surrender to the Allied Forces , if you are lucky enough.

[aj906]

Originally Posted by VONHARRIS

For me in that occasion : Scuttle the U-boot and surrender to the Allied Forces , if you are lucky enough.

Depending upon where I am I use the escape option because you could have got aide from either other boats (increasingly unlikely) but also Bv 138s (again, increasngly unlikely) which also used diesel, albeit this option is rather dubious.

Obviously I use the trusty old dice method for calculating:
1940 - 1941: if I role 2 - 5 I 'escape'
1942: if I role an even number I 'escape'
1943: I role twice and if the product is 18 or better then I 'escape'
1944: I role twice and if the product is 25 or better then I 'escape'

I also add the extra distinction for dates:
Nord Atlantik I use 10.1940 - 1.1945
Atlantik and Süd Atlantik I use 10.1940 - end of Mai 1944

The distinction is that at least the Bv 138s of Luftflotte 5 still were operate from Norway (although I have to get within 950 kilometres of major bases like Bergen, Trondheim or Narvik for this to be of any help). I know it is a rather feint hope and perhaps ahistorical, but then SH3 doesn't really give the option of refueling at sea beyond the stock milk cow option..

I'm no mathamatician so I don't know if any one year - aside from 1941 - stands a better chance of surviving running out of fuel or not. But as a general rule I always turn for home - regardless of torpedo situation when I judge my reserves to be about 45%, taking the most direct route there. If I'm in the Süd Atlantik and based in Norway, then I usually just forgo the bonus points and drop that to 40% and then aim for somewhere like St Nazaire.