FUEL LIMITED OR UNLIMITED?

[Rockin Robbins]

Originally Posted by Crannogman

You may find a useful alternative to crash diving is to cruise with decks awash. You can find other threads on how to do this; basically, it involves changing your boat's "radar depth" to about 9 meters. At this depth, you can run on diesels and go to the bridge, but most of the hull is below the surface; your speed is limited to submerged speeds (maxing out near 12 knots), but you can fully submerge in half the time and present a much smaller profile for enemies to spot. "Decks awash" is probably the best way to travel long distances during daylight

Cruising decks awash at ahead emergency gives you a speed of 10 knots, may vary with mods. At that speed you do not charge batteries at all as all power is pushing the boat. Cruising surfaced at 11 knots gives you maximum fuel economy. Makes no sense to use decks awash for normal cruising unless you're working for the Japanese.

With radar there is no scenario where you can't have several minutes to hit the periscope depth button and get to periscope depth without touching the throttle several minutes before the plane could possibly see you. As a matter of fact, there is no reason ever to leave the nav map while cruising in an airplane infested area, no reason ever to touch the throttle, no reason to go under 8x time compression the entire time it is so simple to deal with air gnats.

I guess I know what my next video tutorial is going to be on. But decks awash is not an appropriate tool for dealing with airplanes. It's using a shotgun to swat a mosquito. Planes are not a danger factor in Silent Hunter 4.