Submarines

[Frank]

Where must i send my submarines to sink english merchant ships? To the Atlantic hex?

[Frank]

Anyone?

[Feralkoala]

In the board game, Germany needs to play the "submarine warfare" political chit to start restricted submarine warfare. At that point, the U-Boats should be placed in the Atlantic hex. If the computer game follows that, then you likely can't start subamarine warfare until that chit is played.

[sval06]

I take advantage of this thread to say I have noticed that counters of German "submarines" in Atlantik and Pacific zones have a drawing of CL, but are Submarines types according to the SS shows on the counter itself.

So the type or the drawing is false.

I know it is not very important compared to the other issues right now, but it can be easily adressed in a patch.

[Le Ricain]

I take advantage of this thread to say I have noticed that counters of German "submarines" in Atlantik and Pacific zones have a drawing of CL, but are Submarines types according to the SS shows on the counter itself.

So the type or the drawing is false.

I know it is not very important compared to the other issues right now, but it can be easily adressed in a patch.

I believe that until 1915 (or was it 1917?) submarine flotilla flagships were CL's.

[sval06]

I believe that until 1915 (or was it 1917?) submarine flotilla flagships were CL's.

In this case, the submarines located at Kiel do not have the correct draw as it seems to be a submarine on these

[PhilThib]

I'll give you a more detailed explanation in some days, but the game differentiate tactical submarines (SS) from U-boots for strategic warfare... the later are not handled on map but via some political actions...I need to clarify this point with Calvinus though....

So the one you have are those subs useful for direct military action

[Adlertag]

I take advantage of this thread to say I have noticed that counters of German "submarines" in Atlantik and Pacific zones have a drawing of CL, but are Submarines types according to the SS shows on the counter itself.

So the type or the drawing is false.

I know it is not very important compared to the other issues right now, but it can be easily adressed in a patch.

CL were submarine flotilla flagship as soon as August 1914 , at least in the German High Sea fleet.
Example below with 1st U-Boat flotilla :

1st U-Boat Flotilla, light cruiser Hamburg (flotilla leader).
1st Half flotilla V150 (leader), replaced by S122 12/8/14, U5, U6*, U7,
U8, U9, U10, U11*.
2nd Half Flotilla S99 (leader), U12*, U13, U14, U15, U16, U17, U18.

[Frank]

Another two questions regarding submarines.

I build three strategic submarines as Germany and in every reinforcement phase i get a message that i can deploy them. But they don´appear on the reinforcement panel. I know that there is a strategic submarie pool but i can´t find out how many subs i have there aside from looking in my save game.

And how can Britain send destroyers or light cruisers to escort duties against submarines. The tooltip mention you can use them for this task but i don´know how to do it.