Das Thanasboot ooc/information/questions

[PeZook]

Wow...six hours? They sure are persistent...

Only one destroyer has been left behind to harrass you, but there's maritime bombers coming and going, taking turns in pounding the SHIT out of the boot.

[Chardok]

BTW skywalker - *I'm kidding* is hard to put into words without actually saying it. but I wanted to make it clear that I was, in fact, kidding with you

Feel free to take Von Dokken to task when this is over.

[Skywalker_T-65]

^ No worries...I knew you were kidding. I'm not a humorless block of concrete you know.

[Chardok]

^ No worries...I knew you were kidding. I'm not a humorless block of concrete you know.

I know - sadly, though, our Kommandant is so I unfortunately tend to group all "people" under "Humourless block of concrete" column until they tell me otherwise. Safer that way, and I spend less time alone with *gulp* Koch.

[Skywalker_T-65]

True...so true...*shudders*

[PeZook]

Well, okay, so it wasn't six hours but around four so far.

Leutnant Skywalker better give a good command now

[PeZook]

BTW, chemistry question: what happens when saltwater gets into lead-acid batteries?

[Simon_Jester]

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NEIN NEIN NEIN!

Smell level: Deadly Poison

[Thanas]

and that is why there are breathing masks onboard the boote.

[PeZook]

and that is why there are breathing masks onboard the boote.

They were pretty crap, though. Usually if water got into the batteries, the boat was forced to surface: remember that the masks had limited reserves in their oxygen candles, and there was no way to vent the chlorine gas when submerged.

Plus, chlorine irritates the mucous membranes and the skin.

[LaCroix]

So, either we get out of this, or it turns out to be the degenerate Bavarian's fantasy running wild during the stress of an attack?

[PeZook]

So, either we get out of this, or it turns out to be the degenerate Bavarian's fantasy running wild during the stress of an attack?

Nope, no coming back from ze dead for you.

[PeZook]

This is why I dislike diving to 240 metres and below, actually. I usually play FAR more agressively than Thanas (I would've taken the shot at that second convoy, for example), and at that depth, the slightest damage or leak means you start to plunge towards hull crush depth. I barely managed to save the boot (the dieselraum almost flooded entirely, the damage control crew only managed to control the leaking about 3/4 of the way through.), and it was already beginning to get crushed by pressure when the electric engines got repaired and I managed to stop the plunge long enough to get rid of some of the water.

It was harrowing

EDIT: BTW, the deepest dive recorded by a Type VII uboat was U-432, a Type VIIC, which survived an uncontrolled dive to approx. 305 metres.

So you didn't have it THAT bad!

[Thanas]

This is why I dislike diving to 240 metres and below, actually. I usually play FAR more agressively than Thanas (I would've taken the shot at that second convoy, for example), and at that depth, the slightest damage or leak means you start to plunge towards hull crush depth. I barely managed to save the boot (the dieselraum almost flooded entirely, the damage control crew only managed to control the leaking about 3/4 of the way through.), and it was already beginning to get crushed by pressure when the electric engines got repaired and I managed to stop the plunge long enough to get rid of some of the water.

It was harrowing

Heh. Well, my playstyle results in lots of tonnage sunk and no dead crewmen. Never lost a single one.

Though I did once tangle with three TF at once and sunk one BB and two CVs in that three hour attack....

EDIT: BTW, the deepest dive recorded by a Type VII uboat was U-432, a Type VIIC, which survived an uncontrolled dive to approx. 305 metres.

So you didn't have it THAT bad!

Indeed.

[PeZook]

Heh. Well, my playstyle results in lots of tonnage sunk and no dead crewmen. Never lost a single one.

Well, it's more exciting if you have less than a minute to set up an attack and dive before a destroyer runs you over

And I don't lose crewmen either. It's the entire boot or nothing!

(usually the entire boot though )

Though I did once tangle with three TF at once and sunk one BB and two CVs in that three hour attack....

Whoa

The best I did was sink an entire convoy is six separate attacks. That was on the Type IXC, I ran out of torpedoes and finished the last five merchants in a vicious surface gun duel. Barely limped back to base afterwards.

EDIT: BTW, the deepest dive recorded by a Type VII uboat was U-432, a Type VIIC, which survived an uncontrolled dive to approx. 305 metres.

So you didn't have it THAT bad!

Indeed.

However, late war boot construction was beginning to suffer increasing quality problems. That's the in-universe explanation for the relative fragility of U-1313

[Simon_Jester]

That, or Aryan Chef's "coffee" really does weaken the hull after all...

[LaCroix]

That, or Aryan Chef's "coffee" really does weaken the hull after all...

Challenge accepted. Let's see who is quicker - the Koch's "coffee" or my spark erosion...

[Thanas]

The best I did was sink an entire convoy is six separate attacks. That was on the Type IXC, I ran out of torpedoes and finished the last five merchants in a vicious surface gun duel. Barely limped back to base afterwards.

Yeah, wiping out entire Convoys is pretty fun...but I don't do it because for me it is all about maximising tonnage success. A patrol with less than 100k sunk (in a Type VII) or 200k sunk (in a Type IX) is a lost patrol to me.

However, late war boot construction was beginning to suffer increasing quality problems. That's the in-universe explanation for the relative fragility of U-1313

Heheh. Clearly the fault lies with all those stenchian dockworkers.

[Simon_Jester]

That, or Aryan Chef's "coffee" really does weaken the hull after all...

Challenge accepted. Let's see who is quicker - the Koch's "coffee" or my spark erosion...

You're getting into a competition to see who can kill us all the fastest? With the Koch?

HAVE YOU COMPLETELY LOST YOUR MIND?

[LaCroix]

HAVE YOU COMPLETELY LOST YOUR MIND?

Dead eyes stare back at Simon, as the only bodily reaction Funkenschuster shows are occasional muscle spasms due to electrocutional nerve damage.

[FaxModem1]

I'll see how much damage the Koch's um...coffee can do.

[Simon_Jester]

HAVE YOU COMPLETELY LOST YOUR MIND?

Dead eyes stare back at Simon, as the only bodily reaction Funkenschuster shows are occasional muscle spasms due to electrocutional nerve damage.

Bootsman Huber nods. "Good point, you're absolutely right."

[FaxModem1]

Nikoff made the grave mistake of trying to talk to the Koch in his native tongue. Now he has to continually deal with him.

[PeZook]

I thought that was Nikoff's role, that he was the only one who could understand Der Koch and thus was forever doomed to be the steward?

I'll see how much damage the Koch's um...coffee can do.

It says something about sailors of the U-Bootwaffe that they can, apprently, drink that stuff, rather than using it as axle grease.

[fnord]

I thought that was the general idea for Nikoff - he, being the only one aboard able to grok der Koch, was the steward/koch's assistant. He just rarely has had reason to bork with der Koch for an extended period of time until now.

ed: to fix Koch-up