You Know You're Having A Tough Day...

[capt_frank]

at the office when your rudder falls off. Ruined a really nice mission. We all had to swim back to port...

[Kapitan_Phillips]

Please tell me it didnt randomly do that :rotfl:

[sqk7744]

I knew that button in the Conning Tower next to the Map scrolls did something.


[JETTISON RUDDER]
Note: DO NOT PAINT and use only when VERY happy with direction of travel.

Thou...if the port/starboard props were moddled with seperate throttles, you might have a shot at it, and you could always rig a sail like CV 11 Intrepid did.

2 February 1944: Her work in the capture of the Marshall Islands was now finished. Intrepid headed for Truk, the tough Japanese base in the center of Micronesia.

17 February: Three fast carrier groups arrived undetected at daybreak.

17 February 1944: That night an aerial torpedo struck Intrepid's starboard quarter, 15 feet below her waterline, flooding several compartments and jamming her rudder hard to port. By running her port engines and stopping her starboard engines, Captain Sprague kept her on course.

17 February–18 February: The 3 carrier groups sank two Japanese destroyers and 200,000 tons of merchant shipping in 2 days of almost continuous attacks in Operation Hailstone. The carrier raid demonstrated Truk's vulnerability and thereby greatly curtailed its usefulness to the Japanese as a base.

19 February: Strong winds swung her back and forth and tended to weathercock her with her bow pointed toward Tokyo. Sprague later confessed: "Right then I wasn't interested in going in that direction." At this point the crew made a jury-rig sail of hatch covers and scrap canvas which swung Intrepid about and held her on course.

24 February 1944: Decorated by her crazy-quilt sail, Intrepid reached Pearl Harbor.

[Snuffy]

I had battery damage and some hull damage from a run in with a couple of aircraft.
My initial base at Manilla was overrun by the enemy. I had to go to Austrailia to get my boat fixed ... it was my 4th mission on my third career. We were quite successful.

50 miles out from the base in Austrailia, I run out of diesel fuel. I can't submerge and run on battery cuz they're damaged and if I even attempt to go to periscope depth, because of the damage to the hull, I start sinking like a lead balloon. Blowing ballast got me back safely to the surface but ... I can't go anywhere.

Is there a command for running the batteries while surfaced?

I trashed the career and started another one.

[SteamWake]

Another argument for indipendant controls of port and starbord engines :p

[flintlock]

Those rudder assemblies are manufactured in Taiwan.

[sqk7744]

Originally Posted by Snuffy

I had battery damage and some hull damage from a run in with a couple of aircraft.
My initial base at Manilla was overrun by the enemy. I had to go to Austrailia to get my boat fixed ... it was my 4th mission on my third career. We were quite successful.

50 miles out from the base in Austrailia, I run out of diesel fuel. I can't submerge and run on battery cuz they're damaged and if I even attempt to go to periscope depth, because of the damage to the hull, I start sinking like a lead balloon. Blowing ballast got me back safely to the surface but ... I can't go anywhere.

Is there a command for running the batteries while surfaced?

I trashed the career and started another one.

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Hmm Good question. I found one way to sort of do this. Last Night in heavy seas on surface, the waves were washing off the fore and aft deck (kind of sea where any sane deck gunner would be playing poker down below) and the Batts kept kicking in when we were awash, then the diesels would come back on again -must have drove Johann nuts. Maybe a depth of 16-20 in calm seas might trigger the same thing.

[AVGWarhawk]

Decks awash up to 30 feet and electrics should turn on.

[capt_frank]

Originally Posted by Kapitan_Phillips

Please tell me it didnt randomly do that :rotfl:

I'm not really sure what I actually did to deserve that! I had just exited from a foul weather run-in with a convoy, dukeing it out on the surface in between firing salvos. I had enough and was escaping to the SE at a relatively high rate of speed (TC) when I must have run into something. Got a message that my prop shafts were damaged and or broken. Got the lads working on the repairs and was glad to see that I could still make some headway. I kept ordering a course change but thought my helmsman had gone deaf. On inspection of the outside of the craft, I found out my rudder was MIA. Nothing else to do but to abandon ship ala the ESC key as I was heading for a nasty landfall.

We all made it back to base except for Smithers who got eaten by a landshark.

Double darn, I love this game!

[sqk7744]

Originally Posted by capt_frank

I'm not really sure what I actually did to deserve that! I had just exited from a foul weather run-in with a convoy, dukeing it out on the surface in between firing salvos. I had enough and was escaping to the SE at a relatively high rate of speed (TC) when I must have run into something. Got a message that my prop shafts were damaged and or broken. Got the lads working on the repairs and was glad to see that I could still make some headway. I kept ordering a course change but thought my helmsman had gone deaf. On inspection of the outside of the craft, I found out my rudder was MIA. Nothing else to do but to abandon ship ala the ESC key as I was heading for a nasty landfall.

We all made it back to base except for Smithers who got eaten by a landshark.

Double darn, I love this game!

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I was gonna say, you have some waterskiing maintenance crew with quick hands if they were fixing the props while making good headway

Would be cool if the ESC key was more of a abandon ship command with a 50:50 chance of rescue or capture...ala Pirates or FalconIV . Would be nice to get some off the boat on that Emergency blow... 5 minutes on the surface in the down for good scenario.