Torpedo Shortage?

[Folducker]

I am still having problems with Torpedoes, or the lack of. On my fourth mission with an S boat. Been to Tokyo to photograph the anchorage (You don't want to try to do this at noon, as you will be spotted and sunk trying to get out) and made it back to Pearl OK. When I went on the Photographic mission, I was only given 3 Torpedoes which I didn't use. Next mission is back to Japan to "engage shipping" Only problem is, I am only issued 4 Torpedoes. Do they really want me to go all the way to Japan with only 4? Is there a configuration setting I can modify to get a full load? I don't know if I have a problem with the game or not. I did have a crash when playing single missions. Previously I came back from a patrol with empty tubes, was re-assigned another patrol to Japan, Went all the way, set up to bag some ships in a medium size convoy only to find out when I brought up the TDC that I didn't have ANY Torpedoes. I am at a loss as to what's going on.
Thanks

[SteamWake]

When you get back to your office click on the sub model.

The fill the empty slots their. You should be automatically given a full compliment which leads me to believe your at the wrong base.

[Dread Knot]

You have to load them yourself when you are in port from the torpedo screen. It isn't automatic. That way you can buy some of the more exotic torpedoes using renown. the Mark 14s are free.

Interestingly enough there was a torpedo shortage early in the war.

[SteamWake]

Originally Posted by Dread Knot

You have to load them yourself when you are in port from the torpedo screen. It isn't automatic. That way you can buy some of the more exotic torpedoes using renown. the Mark 14s are free.

Interestingly enough there was a torpedo shortage early in the war.

Well since he is in an S boat he will have to stick with Mk10's

[nikimcbee]

Originally Posted by Dread Knot

You have to load them yourself when you are in port from the torpedo screen. It isn't automatic. That way you can buy some of the more exotic torpedoes using renown. the Mark 14s are free.

Interestingly enough there was a torpedo shortage early in the war.

There's an intersting story to all of this. There was only one torpedo manufacturer at the time (one facility) and they would only build their quota of torpedoes. they weren't producing very many torps at the begining of the war, AIIR, they weren't capable of having a very high out put. A good portion of this problem was their union.

[Folducker]

Originally Posted by nikimcbee

There's an intersting story to all of this. There was only one torpedo manufacturer at the time (one facility) and they would only build their quota of torpedoes. they weren't producing very many torps at the begining of the war, AIIR, they weren't capable of having a very high out put. A good portion of this problem was their union.

Was that, by chance Pontiac who was producing Torpedoes? I remember seeing an ad in an old issue of Life or Look magazine. The photo was of someone working on a Torpedo. The caption referred to the fact that car manufacturers were gearing up to produce war munitions. It figures that I would be saddled with Mk10's, that's why they tend to either miss or hit the stern of what you are shooting at and it takes a lot more of them to sink anything. I couldn't figure why I was missing with a few until I started watching them all the way in. They were consistently hitting the stern or missing behind the ship when the TDC was locked in.

Unions actually making it tough to fight a war? My mother worked for Boeing a a riviter during WWII. She used to tell me stories about everything they would pull to get time off and how far they would push management.

Anyway, Thanks for the help, I will check it out.

[SteamWake]

Originally Posted by Folducker

My mother worked for Boeing a a riviter during WWII.

You make sure you tell your mother I (some guy on a forum) personally said thanks for her contributions.

[magic452]

Folducker We have something in common, my mom worked at Lockheed
building P 38s and later on B 17s.

Magic

[rubenandthejets]

You should check out the wharfies in Australia during WWII. They went on strike. Marcarthur was apoplectic!

[Dread Knot]

There was a dockworkers strike in Wellington, New Zealand too as the 1st Marine Division prepared for ine invasion of Guadalcanal. They had to combat load their ships themselves in a driving rain and were none too please about it.

[Folducker]

Originally Posted by SteamWake

You make sure you tell your mother I (some guy on a forum) personally said thanks for her contributions.

I see there is a lot more to that office than just getting orders for the next patrol. Problem solved. Thanks

Before Mom passed, I had a discussion with her about her WWII service working at Boeing. (They loved the B-17 because it was easy to rivet but they hated the B-29 because the flush rivets were a lot harder to install). When I asked her how it felt to have a hand in saving the world, she said this; “Being the oldest of a family of 8, my life consisted of working on the family farm, pretty much as an unpaid worker, seven days a week with no end in sight. When the chance to move from North Dakota to Seattle came along, we jumped on it.” (The “WE” was her and four of her five sisters). “The best thing about it was I met your father in Seattle.”

He was recovering from wounds received on board the Essex in November of 44.
He had went through the battle of the Phillippine Sea, with the Great Marianas Turkey Shoot, The Battle of Leyte Gulf, and a horrific Typhoon. Up until that time, the ship had led a very charmed life, but on November 25 it was hit by a Kamikaze. 15 killed, 44 wounded. He was in the wrong place at the wrong time and ended up as one of the 44.