Flooding & Damage Control - Small story & questions

[TheJaguar]

Originally Posted by rb4door

That experience has made me quite scared of destroyers and convoys now.
My patrol today I just hunted single ships, too nervous going in for ships that have protection!

I wont feel sorry for the destroyers I sink anymore.

Now that's realism in a game! Well said door.

[Kpt. Lehmann]

To address your question about depth-keeping while wrestling with flooding...

Any time that you have a situation that changes your depth or relative bouyancy in a significant and rapid way... (Crash Dive or fast dive, severe flooding, or blowing ballast especially repeatedly) ... It takes some time for control input / dive-plane attitude changes, to overcome the momentum / mass... and for you to see a reaction.

Water adds weight / mass to your boat fast and can magnify these effects.

Furthermore, if you blow ballast and then immediately make forward speed... your U-boat crew will try to maintain the last depth ordered or current depth... Therefore, since you have blown compressed air into the tanks... turning off the E-motors caused you to ascend again.

You encountered a rapid sequence of events and basically your boat was out of control for a time.

(concerning flooding: stopping the flooding and pumping the water out are two different things. Your crew does the former and your pumps do the latter.)

Try to think in terms of making emergency maneuvers with an 18-Wheeler (in 3-dimensions) and you can visualize it better.

Also, remember that U-boats are much heavier than an 18-Wheeler.

Now that the science is out of the way, it was just the other day that I was saying to someone... Sometimes, simply surviving a close call is the best adventure.

If all your tonnage came easy... you'd get bored pretty quick.

Glad ya made it! I'll bet you remember it longer than the last ship you sunk!

[rb4door]

Originally Posted by Kpt. Lehmann

Now that the science is out of the way, it was just the other day that I was saying to someone... Sometimes, simply surviving a close call is the best adventure.

If all your tonnage came easy... you'd get bored pretty quick.

Glad ya made it! I'll bet you remember it longer than the last ship you sunk!

exactly!

As terrorfying as it was - it was a complete battle in its own right to save my sub, and an adventure into the game I havnt seen before