9/20/2023 0 Comments Uboat review![]() The officer nearest the damage will prioritize and repair it without you doing anything except standing there like a bump on a log. ![]() In the event that someone holes your boat. either manually work the scope and collect the firing data, or just click on the target ship, then click on the officer icon and have him plot the solution automatically without any input from you Remember how in SHIII you could order your weapons officer to plot a solution, OR you could do it yourself. Shooting the enemy is much the same as what we are used to in the SH series of games. HOWEVER - the weapons will cool over time, if you happen to encounter a convoy or a lone merchant you want to torpedo and it just so happens to be between the normal intervals he would automatically warm up the fish on his own - you can press ALT to bring up the detailed row of officer icons, and with two clicks tell that officer to warm up a specific torpedo. He just has his job aboard the boat to do and thats one of the things he does Your torpedo officer will periodically do this automatically without prompting from you. Planesmen will automatically walk from their bunks and man the dive planes, an officer will automatically open the ballast tanks and flood for dive all you have to do is stand there and watch the magic happen.Īs for warming up of weapons, this happens two ways. If you use the depth gauge to order periscope depth or crash dive or decks awash or any specific depth, thats all there is to it, there is no micro management. This review is based on the edition published in England in 1990.How much micro management does the Captain have to do? Do you have the option of being the Captain as in SH or are there certain details you have to personally attend to besides fire control and giving the basic orders to maneuver the boat?Īdjusting speed, setting course, ordering depth etc is all basically the same as Silent Hunter Series of games' This was not meant to be such a book.įor anyone interested in the U-boat war this is one on the must have list. And that is just the point as I see it, this is an excellent personal account of this officer but not a serious research-book to base further work on. Rohwer once wrote in January 1970 in the "Schaltung Kueste" the official journal of the VdU (Union of the U-boatmen) " If one were to pencil in with red all the factual mistakes in this book it would look like a bloodbath". After the war rumor has it that he made his fortune and now lives in Florida, USA. Werner then managed to escape back to Germany. Werner surrendered to the British in Norway and was then given to the French authorities which treated its prisoners at that camp badly to say the least. ![]() Both being unsuccessful as there simply were not enough of those around. Interesting is his battle to get the latest equipment such as Schnorchels and radar detectors from shore. He then bitterly fought the last months of the war, barely managing to survive. Werner did not get his own U-boat until the spring of 1944 when the war was lost and 6 out of 7 U-boat that embarked on patrols did not return, most being lost with all hands. It then covers his first years as a low ranking officer on 2 boats during the Battle of the Atlantic's climax. Werner covers the beginning of the war and the glamour that shone on the U-boats and his desire to join them. ![]() This is a very personal and touching book, the author lost most of his family in allied air raid on his hometown. The author was commander of 2 U-boats ( U-415 and U-953) and spent most of the war at sea surviving longer than most of his less fortunate comrades. This is one of the very best personal accounts of the U-boat war of World War Two. Iron Coffins A Personal Account of the German U-Boat Battles of World War II Werner, Herbert A.įactual mistakes, nothing really damaging though ![]()
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