Out of fuel and can't finish mission-SOS!!!

Threadfin · 01-27-25, 08:50 AM

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Originally Posted by Two-Six

I DID IT!!!!
then diving and running on the batteries until they were flat

Congrats on your survival Herr Kaleun, but in the future there is no need to dive here. That would have cost you range. You can run on the electric motors on the surface, alternating propulsion methods, to increase your range. Matter of fact, it is something you might look to do outbound on long patrols, so you have more fuel oil later.

GoldenRivet · 01-29-25, 11:30 AM

When this happens I run on the surface on electric motors until I have nearly depleted the batteries, then switch over to diesels just long enough to recharge and swap back to electric

Just repeat this process until you get close to base and can fast travel, otherwise, do it all the way there.

glad you got it sorted

Aktungbby · 01-30-25, 11:21 AM

/\ that tactic is critical in SH-V's "Churchill Express" scenario to intercept a fast moving convoy of 5 troopships headed for Capetown SA. I generally await their arrival at the African port of Freetown and sink them as they enter and anchor; however I've also had to travel all the way to Capetown to intercept, and then struggle meticulously on batts, submerging and recharging slowly northward to the Vichy French Port at Dakar to refuel and replenish eels enroute back to the French coast homebase. Too bad there isn't a longer range type IX boat in SH-V; which would've been be more suited to the task.

01-29-25, 11:30 AM	#2
GoldenRivet Subsim Aviator Join Date: Mar 2007 Location: Texas Posts: 8,726 Downloads: 146 Uploads: 0	When this happens I run on the surface on electric motors until I have nearly depleted the batteries, then switch over to diesels just long enough to recharge and swap back to electric Just repeat this process until you get close to base and can fast travel, otherwise, do it all the way there. glad you got it sorted __________________

01-30-25, 11:21 AM	#3
Aktungbby Gefallen Engel U-666 Join Date: Jul 2013 Location: On a tilted, overheated, overpopulated spinning mudball on Collision course with Andromeda Galaxy Posts: 30,065 Downloads: 24 Uploads: 0	/\ that tactic is critical in SH-V's "Churchill Express" scenario to intercept a fast moving convoy of 5 troopships headed for Capetown SA. I generally await their arrival at the African port of Freetown and sink them as they enter and anchor; however I've also had to travel all the way to Capetown to intercept, and then struggle meticulously on batts, submerging and recharging slowly northward to the Vichy French Port at Dakar to refuel and replenish eels enroute back to the French coast homebase. Too bad there isn't a longer range type IX boat in SH-V; which would've been be more suited to the task. __________________ "Only two things are infinite; The Universe and human squirrelyness?!!