Are these in-game modelled malfunctions??

Jimbuna · 05-06-07, 01:51 PM

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Originally Posted by ddiplock

I play GWX with SH3 commander set to model both malfunctions & sabotage.

On some patrols i've noticed when i try to put my engines to flank, they die to a stop, and I can only go at ahead full....this handicaps my surface...and submerged speeds a fair bit.

I ask this, because yesterday when I raised the attack scope on my sub...it was as if the optical mirros in the scope were *&cked!!!! Everything was VERY blurry and I couldn't see a thing....I was thus forced to use the opservation scope for submerged attacks instead.

Thoughts anyone?

The above is definitely modelled into the game

most German Flotillas sailed out of occupied territory later in the war and the obvious consequence was native and migrant/forced labour workers committing acts of sabotage at every opportunity

GoldenRivet · 05-06-07, 02:10 PM

Sabotage ran a muck in the french bases.

in the book "Steel boat iron hearts" the story of U-505, severeal occurances of sabotage are recounted.

i will site examples.

Upper deck plates granting access to external stores... welded shut.

all of the diving tank seals and shaft seals, battery cells etc were replaced with old corroded parts scheduled for replacement, other parts that were nowhere near the batteries were found to have been soaked in battery acid.

large amounts of sugar found in the lubrication oil sumps

one boat found a dead dog floating in the fresh drinking water tank

other boats were found to have magnetic time bombs attached to their hulls

U-505 had an entire weld seam replaced with an "Oil soaked rope", placed in the small gap between pressure plates so that it would look like a weld... the crew found this out when they were doing a depth test after other sabotage repairs... they were going deep and heard very loud unusual popping and creaking sounds much louder than normal. lucky they didnt crush.

a small pencil sized hole drilled in oil in fuel tanks which would let small traces of fuel and oil leak out over time was found on several occasions.

those are just a hand full of examples from the book about U-505.

Kataki · 05-06-07, 02:24 PM

I retract my statement

I still wont bother with sabotage until later in the war.

Jimbuna · 05-06-07, 02:27 PM

Very interesting GR

I'll have to look that book up

05-06-07, 02:10 PM	#2
GoldenRivet Subsim Aviator Join Date: Mar 2007 Location: Texas Posts: 8,726 Downloads: 146 Uploads: 0	Sabotage ran a muck in the french bases. in the book "Steel boat iron hearts" the story of U-505, severeal occurances of sabotage are recounted. i will site examples. Upper deck plates granting access to external stores... welded shut. all of the diving tank seals and shaft seals, battery cells etc were replaced with old corroded parts scheduled for replacement, other parts that were nowhere near the batteries were found to have been soaked in battery acid. large amounts of sugar found in the lubrication oil sumps one boat found a dead dog floating in the fresh drinking water tank other boats were found to have magnetic time bombs attached to their hulls U-505 had an entire weld seam replaced with an "Oil soaked rope", placed in the small gap between pressure plates so that it would look like a weld... the crew found this out when they were doing a depth test after other sabotage repairs... they were going deep and heard very loud unusual popping and creaking sounds much louder than normal. lucky they didnt crush. a small pencil sized hole drilled in oil in fuel tanks which would let small traces of fuel and oil leak out over time was found on several occasions. those are just a hand full of examples from the book about U-505. __________________

05-06-07, 02:24 PM	#3
Kataki Torpedoman Join Date: Apr 2007 Posts: 119 Downloads: 0 Uploads: 0	I retract my statement I still wont bother with sabotage until later in the war. __________________

05-06-07, 02:27 PM	#4
Jimbuna Chief of the Boat Join Date: Feb 2006 Location: 250 metres below the surface Posts: 190,992 Downloads: 63 Uploads: 13	Very interesting GR I'll have to look that book up __________________ Wise men speak because they have something to say; Fools because they have to say something. Oh my God, not again!!