Flooding?

[Cheapshot]

Is there any way to stop it?

I've taken my first bit of damage in GWX and my men are up to there ankles, but my repair crew is running around like the keystone kops getting nothing accomplished.

I was stalking a convoy in heavy fog when a DD came charging out of the soup and landed a couple charges closer than I'd like....thus causing a bit of flooding. I've escaped (I think) to a couple 1000 meters away and 100m deep, ordered out of silent running, yet my crew seems to be doing nothing to repair.

Can I save my boat?

[Morts]

sure you can, radio kriegsmarineman for help and he will come and defeat the evil DD

nope you're pretty much doomed (just joking)

[Cheapshot]

Originally Posted by Morts

sure you can, radio kriegsmarineman for help and he will come and defeat the evil DD

Hehe. I fear the surface as much as I fear the flooding right now. Death by water or death by white hot metal fragments....niether sound too good.

Ok, first of all and I think you did it, get out of silent running. Get your men to the damage control room (F7 key and upper lefthand corner). Get an officer in there as well. Remember, your best men will repair faster and last longer. At this point it is survival so the best guys in there will help!!!! PUMP LIKE HELL!!!!!!

I suppose I need to double check my slient running staus again, and get my POs into the repair crew. At least I know it can be done.

One thing though, will I get any type of visual conformation that they are working on the flooding?

Edit: Von Hesse answered that, but I may have an issue then, because I'm not getting the wrench.

[AS]

Make sure you are no longer "silent running" (hit "z" or "y" depending on your keyboard), click the damaged compartment in THE SMALL U-Boat PICTURE, not in the large one! Then you should see the little wrench symbol alright.

Cheers, AS

[johan_d]

you get the wrench when you click on the compartment needing repair.

[TarJak]

Also if there are multiple compartments flooding look at how long each will take to fix and get them on the one with the highest number first. Once you've stopped the flooding in that compartment, then get them to the next leak and so on.

You will then have a bunch of partly flooded compartments. Man the pumps and put them in the deepest water first until you've emptied out all your compartments of water.

Then pray that the DD's have gone so you can get to the surface for some air!

[AVGWarhawk]

Ok, first of all and I think you did it, get out of silent running. Get your men to the damage control room (F7 key and upper lefthand corner). Get an officer in there as well. Remember, your best men will repair faster and last longer. At this point it is survival so the best guys in there will help!!!! PUMP LIKE HELL!!!!!!

Originally Posted by Cheapshot

Is there any way to stop it?

I've taken my first bit of damage in GWX and my men are up to there ankles, but my repair crew is running around like the keystone kops getting nothing accomplished.

I was stalking a convoy in heavy fog when a DD came charging out of the soup and landed a couple charges closer than I'd like....thus causing a bit of flooding. I've escaped (I think) to a couple 1000 meters away and 100m deep, ordered out of silent running, yet my crew seems to be doing nothing to repair.

Can I save my boat?

Load up the damage control party (upper left corner in the crew area) to the max, then click on the compartment area beneath that you want them to work on. You'll see a wrench appear and start cranking back and forth when they're working on fixing things.