please advise oh wise ones,

[Abd_von_Mumit]

Originally Posted by pawzisme

hello Community

Finally, after umpty-third try, I succeeded in completing the first single mission without getting drownded or having to wait to see if my crippled victim would eventually succumb, so good, but I can see there is a lot to understand yet.
I have just tried to access the community manual, but the server was not found - temporarily I am sure - and the next thread I tried was on how to sink a ship, and that quickly got too techy for me, so here I am, just to ask small guidance on a couple of things, nothing very involved ( how do you eat an elephant sandwhich? - one bite at a time!).

Fustly, what are the hydrophones and how do I use them? Nothing seems to happen on 'normal sweep'.

Second, I always rig for silent running when trying to sneak past the destroyers - is that right and does it mean I am made slower?

Third, why is it that, although I assign a full complement of crew members to damage control, with an officer and some expert folk included, they do not seem to DO anything when I click on a damaged compartment. Once I saw a red wrench animation signifying repairs were taking place, and a time measurement, but I don't know how I got that, or when - or how to get it again...

many thank you's for your help

When silent running, you can't do any repairs nor reload torpedoes and so on. An yes, you should be silent running when approaching a convoy. And yes, it makes you slower, as 'silent' means 'making less noise', and that means your propeller cannot make too many turns per minute. You can order full ahead or ahead flank, but then it's not going to be 'silent' any more.

As to the hydrophones - your crew is not good at the beginnig, but later, when you get your sonar guy, he will report ship contacts as far as 30 kms away. The hydrphones are to hear any sound of interest in the water. IN the water, and that means you should be submerged so that you can use them with success. Extremely useful, when trying to escape and being chased.

Good luck.

[danlisa]

Hydrophones - Press H to manually use the Hydrphone station. As already said, this is an underwater microphone. Max range approx 30 - 40km(in GWX).

Silent Running - Pressing Z puts your boat in Silent Running. If you are at flank then you speed will be dropped to about 2-3kts and all extra 'noise' is shutdown.

Repairs - These can only be carried out when NOT in silent running. Press Z again.


BTW - Some of the single missions are alot harder than the campaign. Just so you know.

EDIT - We've all jumped over this one. Oh well, we've all said pretty much the same thing so it must be true.