CW needs to check sub damage after a mission before assigning another mission

[The Bandit]

Originally Posted by Wiz33

You guys are all missing the point. Yes, we all know it's not realistic. Guess what else is not realistic in the campaign? The player sinking half the Soviet Northern Fleet all my himself.

If you want realistic, that means you'll be lucky to get into 3-4 engagements in the span of the war. Look at the Chicago in RSR. 1st patrol they came up empty, 2nd patrol they got an assist on the Kirov and the 3rd was the Tomahawk strike and that's it.

The inability to perform a mission due to damage/ammo is there for DRAMATIC effect. It's just like any other mission failure (engaging the wrong group while your target slip by). It's just there so the player will get some setback from time to time instead of having a cakewalk. Live with it.

If we're going to pile on about realism, the whole idea of "repair and refit" kind of goes out the window. I highly doubt anything "involved" could/would be done at Holy Loch for the main reason that I just don't see them as tying up the Los Almos (floating drydock) to do something like that when you probably have at least another 12+ submarines operating out of the base, coming back to refit and rearm. Severe damage would either get the boat parked (like USS Pharris in RSR) or patched up enough to maybe go to VSEL or Cammel Laird (if the British could accommodate) or possibly maybe even right back to Groton, Portsmouth or Newport News.

[Wiz33]

Originally Posted by The Bandit

If we're going to pile on about realism, the whole idea of "repair and refit" kind of goes out the window. I highly doubt anything "involved" could/would be done at Holy Loch for the main reason that I just don't see them as tying up the Los Almos (floating drydock) to do something like that when you probably have at least another 12+ submarines operating out of the base, coming back to refit and rearm. Severe damage would either get the boat parked (like USS Pharris in RSR) or patched up enough to maybe go to VSEL or Cammel Laird (if the British could accommodate) or possibly maybe even right back to Groton, Portsmouth or Newport News.

Yep. There are certain liberties that they took to enhance gameplay and to increase tension. Live with it.