Post by Muto on Apr 22, 2005 17:17:04 GMT
Thought I'd just continue our discussion from the Manual TDC thead on a new RUBoat thread...
Thanks Beery for your input and replies.
I don't know why the torpedoes wouldn't load. I had the place full, with one of the Helmsman, 5 Warrant Officers and all the other places filled. And had time compression off. They just wouldn't load. I thought maybe they didn't load in time compression, so when I found that C3, I just went to real-time and tacked with that thing 200 meters of its stern for 6 hours at real-time and an hour at 8x compression ... still no loaded torpedoes. Auto-loading was checked, but just to be sure after 4 hours of real-time tacking, I disabled it and hit the key to order reloading. The message that the torps were in the queue to be reloaded stayed there for the entire 5-day voyage. So I just assumed that they had severe post-traumatic stress disorder and/or were drunk as skunks on Jagrmeister and refused to load the fish.
It's no sweat, I just used my own immersion factor by assuming the torpedo tubes were damaged and unusable, and home I went.
It was my first patrol, so I had very limited experience on board.
Anyway, it was a blast. I didn't sink a thing, and still had a great time just trying to make it home. I spent all my time in the Academy working on manual firing solutions, and not enough on important stuff like checking depth under keel before crash-diving....
Thanks Beery for your input and replies.
I don't know why the torpedoes wouldn't load. I had the place full, with one of the Helmsman, 5 Warrant Officers and all the other places filled. And had time compression off. They just wouldn't load. I thought maybe they didn't load in time compression, so when I found that C3, I just went to real-time and tacked with that thing 200 meters of its stern for 6 hours at real-time and an hour at 8x compression ... still no loaded torpedoes. Auto-loading was checked, but just to be sure after 4 hours of real-time tacking, I disabled it and hit the key to order reloading. The message that the torps were in the queue to be reloaded stayed there for the entire 5-day voyage. So I just assumed that they had severe post-traumatic stress disorder and/or were drunk as skunks on Jagrmeister and refused to load the fish.
It's no sweat, I just used my own immersion factor by assuming the torpedo tubes were damaged and unusable, and home I went.
It was my first patrol, so I had very limited experience on board.
Anyway, it was a blast. I didn't sink a thing, and still had a great time just trying to make it home. I spent all my time in the Academy working on manual firing solutions, and not enough on important stuff like checking depth under keel before crash-diving....
