Keeping Depth in an 1XB, 1940

silentwayIII · 10-07-06, 12:16 PM

Thanks you Kylania and Der Teddy Bar for the advise. Did take a look at my sub early morning (light) and it indeed was lower in the back. Still could not shake off the escorts though so I waited and finally got a good firing solution on the Black Swan and killed it. The Flower lpassed over me several times but did not drop DC's...he was out. Took a shot at him with my last internal torp and missed. Battery real low decided to surface and try to out-gun and out-run him.

What a rush. It took the 1XC ages to get going. Meanwhile i was getting beat up pretty good, but my gunners were also giving it back. Kept changing position and was able to get my big gun to lay rounds into the Flower and kept the 3.7cm gun working until the Flower was ablaze, astern and finally sunk.

Worst part of it was trying to get up to speed. Never did more than 13kts although the weather and surface was good.

Thanks again.

Cpt.Thorne · 10-07-06, 12:45 PM

If you are using SHCmndr 2.6 you might be suffering from malfunction/sabotage to your engines not being able to do faster than 13kts at flank speed

silentwayIII · 10-07-06, 07:13 PM

No I am not using SH Commander. Funny thing though on my way back to base, I had a map contact...merchant about 60k away. At flank speed the boat got up to the 16-17kt speed range and stayed there until contact...so. It seems that when I'm in time compression (never go over 256) is when I notice that whatever submarine I'm using, weather conditions permitting, will almost always be able to reach its top speed.

zzsteven · 10-07-06, 07:58 PM

After surfacing one of the engines is used to recharge the batteries, speed is reduced as you don't have both engines available for propulsion.

zz

silentwayIII · 10-08-06, 03:16 PM

zzsteven. Thanks for that piece of information. Makes sense now that I look back at all of those times when I ran the batteries down and could not get to flank speed until after I was at 100% recharge.

10-08-06, 03:48 PM

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Originally Posted by silentwayIII

zzsteven. Thanks for that piece of information. Makes sense now that I look back at all of those times when I ran the batteries down and could not get to flank speed until after I was at 100% recharge.

You can overrride the battery recharge if you positively need maximum speed right away upon surfacing. Click on your Chief Engineer, then click on propulsion, then click on standard mode. That will have both diesels driving the screws, but your batteries will not be recharged. When you want to recharge you'll have to click the CE again, then propulsion, then recharge mode. Once the batteries are fully recharged the engines will go back to standard automatically.

hyperion2206 · 10-08-06, 04:58 PM

Quote:

Originally Posted by Cpt.Thorne

If you are using SHCmndr 2.6 you might be suffering from malfunction/sabotage to your engines not being able to do faster than 13kts at flank speed

What does that mean? Is that a "bug" or does SH Commander "simulate" the Resistance sabotaging your boat?

:hmm:

[dc]Blade · 10-08-06, 06:15 PM

Not sure mate, but i had a sailor killed in a bar brawl!!

10-07-06, 12:45 PM	#2
Cpt.Thorne Torpedoman Join Date: Sep 2005 Location: Helsinki, Finland Posts: 116 Downloads: 0 Uploads: 0	If you are using SHCmndr 2.6 you might be suffering from malfunction/sabotage to your engines not being able to do faster than 13kts at flank speed __________________

10-07-06, 12:16 PM	#1
silentwayIII Electrician's Mate Join Date: Apr 2006 Posts: 135 Downloads: 166 Uploads: 0	Thanks you Kylania and Der Teddy Bar for the advise. Did take a look at my sub early morning (light) and it indeed was lower in the back. Still could not shake off the escorts though so I waited and finally got a good firing solution on the Black Swan and killed it. The Flower lpassed over me several times but did not drop DC's...he was out. Took a shot at him with my last internal torp and missed. Battery real low decided to surface and try to out-gun and out-run him. What a rush. It took the 1XC ages to get going. Meanwhile i was getting beat up pretty good, but my gunners were also giving it back. Kept changing position and was able to get my big gun to lay rounds into the Flower and kept the 3.7cm gun working until the Flower was ablaze, astern and finally sunk. Worst part of it was trying to get up to speed. Never did more than 13kts although the weather and surface was good. Thanks again.

10-07-06, 07:13 PM	#3
silentwayIII Electrician's Mate Join Date: Apr 2006 Posts: 135 Downloads: 166 Uploads: 0	No I am not using SH Commander. Funny thing though on my way back to base, I had a map contact...merchant about 60k away. At flank speed the boat got up to the 16-17kt speed range and stayed there until contact...so. It seems that when I'm in time compression (never go over 256) is when I notice that whatever submarine I'm using, weather conditions permitting, will almost always be able to reach its top speed.

10-07-06, 07:58 PM	#4
zzsteven Chief Join Date: Feb 2001 Posts: 319 Downloads: 0 Uploads: 0	After surfacing one of the engines is used to recharge the batteries, speed is reduced as you don't have both engines available for propulsion. zz

10-08-06, 03:16 PM	#5
silentwayIII Electrician's Mate Join Date: Apr 2006 Posts: 135 Downloads: 166 Uploads: 0	zzsteven. Thanks for that piece of information. Makes sense now that I look back at all of those times when I ran the batteries down and could not get to flank speed until after I was at 100% recharge.

10-08-06, 06:15 PM	#8
[dc]Blade Seaman Join Date: Aug 2006 Posts: 42 Downloads: 0 Uploads: 0	Not sure mate, but i had a sailor killed in a bar brawl!!