Spare Parts Help

[Dylan]

Is there anyway to get Spare Parts when at sea? I'm in a buggered position - was attacked, fully repaired the leaks and everything but 3 things are still damaged - 2 of note. A) My Diesel Engines and B) Power Distribution Board, meaning my Electric Engines nor Motors will run. Any help?

[Lord Eddard Stark]

One thing that comes to mind is Scrap Metal. If you have an engineer with the right trait, he can fashion parts of it using the thing in the aft torpedo room. Other than that...resupply? Milk cow or ship?

[The cursed Jäger]

If you are out of spare parts, your officers not have the skills to win scrap metal out of repairs and turn them into spare parts, you are toast. You can only reload a previous save file. Or use the Teleport command to get back to port.

In your case: No spare parts, broken engines and power distribution toast (i assume the second battery one as there are two) - reload previous save or use the console.

A tip: Remove the repair priority from your officers. They will waste the parts on uncessary things. You would have to manually order repairs but it allows you to control what is getting repaired.

Originally posted by Lord Eddard Stark:

One thing that comes to mind is Scrap Metal. If you have an engineer with the right trait, he can fashion parts of it using the thing in the aft torpedo room. Other than that...resupply? Milk cow or ship?

Not an option for him, his engines are toast. You have to get to milkcow, it won't come to you.

[Dylan]

Yeah, I feared that that was the outcome. One thing they should really add is a mechanism in which I could request support from other U-Boats, like how we bring Replacement Parts & Medical Equipment to them with an SOS Call.

[urseus]

I keep 2 slots of spare parts perminately and just keep hording them. First mechanic skill to get is the scrapper.

Also as above the auto repair option should be off entirely, otherwise your guys waste parts repairing lights and flak guns etc at the end of a patrol.

[davidt_man]

What you may want to do after reloading the game is go into crew management and change the priority on repairs to 0. That way you have full control over what get repaired and in what order. this way you can prioritize critical system like engines, gyrocompass, etc... With repairs at 0 your crew will still automatically stop and fix leaks.

[El Rushbo]

Originally posted by Dylan:

Yeah, I feared that that was the outcome. One thing they should really add is a mechanism in which I could request support from other U-Boats, like how we bring Replacement Parts & Medical Equipment to them with an SOS Call.

Just make sure that resupply sub is actually German...

[Dewgle]

Originally posted by El Rushbo:

Just make sure that resupply sub is actually German...

Don't want Matthew McConaughey and Bill Paxton stealing your Enigma

[Unperdants]

Just read about the real life enigma recovery. Was as much a stroke of luck as anything and the captain of the U Boat disappeared - likely shot as he tried to defend his boat after initially swimming away.

It was a British convoy escort that boarded the boat and luckily the German crew who thought the U Boat had sunk didn't see the 2 British navy sailors board the boat, otherwise the Germans would have found that we had an enigma machine.

A couple of things that made an impression on me:

- the guy boarding had a service revolver, but both hatches had been shut on the boat, so he didn't know if he was going into an ambush.

- he described the inside of the U Boat as spotless and noted how the officers mess had an impressive galley and all the cupboards had their own keys.

- the chap's name was Sub-Lieutenant David Balme

- as all this was happening another U Boat (U 201) was attacking a different part of the convoy and also some escort ships were rescuing sailors from another U Boat attack

- The navy ship that captured the boat then tried to tow it back to Iceland, but lucky for the war effort it sank as otherwise it would likely have been reported as captured and hence the Germans find that we had an enigma plus all the code books for a couple of months.

Anyway, it's just one of the stories told in the excellent "War Beneath The Sea" by Peter Padfield