Amount of Crew

Cobra_mkII · 01-01-07, 09:04 AM

I go for max crew always now. I had been toying with the idea of limiting my crew when starting my next patrol, I was homeward bound.

Anyway I got jumped big style by 3 aircraft in relativley shallow water, darn they are good in GWX. I sank like a brick "Das Boot" style, hit the bottom at 120m (thank goodness I was not in deep water) with five compartments flooding badly.

I spent the next hour prioritising on flooding control. A mad surface dash home later on had me really grateful for a full crew as so many were to tired to control flooding and they were all rotated through the bunks to up repair compartment efficiency. With minimum crew I would have lost the boat from flooding.

Now two NCO's and an officer are repair qualified (I only had an officer repair qualified in the past).

01-01-07, 09:04 AM	#11
Cobra_mkII Watch Join Date: Dec 2006 Location: Britain Posts: 21 Downloads: 31 Uploads: 0	I go for max crew I go for max crew always now. I had been toying with the idea of limiting my crew when starting my next patrol, I was homeward bound. Anyway I got jumped big style by 3 aircraft in relativley shallow water, darn they are good in GWX. I sank like a brick "Das Boot" style, hit the bottom at 120m (thank goodness I was not in deep water) with five compartments flooding badly. I spent the next hour prioritising on flooding control. A mad surface dash home later on had me really grateful for a full crew as so many were to tired to control flooding and they were all rotated through the bunks to up repair compartment efficiency. With minimum crew I would have lost the boat from flooding. Now two NCO's and an officer are repair qualified (I only had an officer repair qualified in the past).