Absolutely excellent explanation. I like the way you do tutorials. I’m thinking of buying this game and you are going to be my go to.

Not going to lie, I've seen you in the stream board a few times and you've always been helpful, so I got super excited just now to see you on KZfaq. Then you mentioned being able to reorder your officers and I got even more excited! I've been playing UBoat since shortly after release, glad to see there's still more I can learn. You just got another sub(scriber)! Odd tip for discipline, I fire cowards and weak hearts. I keep seawolves at port and replace them as well. Increases the chance of finding more seawolves. Then when I have a spy mission or another mission I really don't want to risk a coward blowing, I bring aboard all my wolves. I've thought about promoting officers from the cowards, now that we're in B130 and 131 and officers actually get skills and stuff.

Finally! I who thought this was a buggy mess. Now I think not and that I did this wrong all the time. After watching your video a second time in one week I now understand how the remaining pool of sailors not on current shift is available for the officers. Lately I had only two sailors "on duty" as it is called (small square at the right side from the officers) and could not figure out why I could not get more sailors available. Running the IIA with only 14 sailors total and a fuel tank the size of a peanut this was very hard at times. When playing later this evening I will setup the crew, officers, schedule, tasks and squads correctly. I need my men available for my officers. Very valuable crew managment tutorial even 3 years later. Thank you!

The best crew tutorial I found. Thanks a lot for the time and the explanation

Any officer can play cards.....but only leaders can win every hand.... Bazinga

Coming back to uboat because of this video. This solves almost all my issues with the game!

This is the best KZfaq tutorial Channel on U-Boat I have seen to date (I’m late to the game, I know). Bravo!

I recently just built a new PC. So, I finally checking this title out. That was one very fine tutorial and advanced technique discussion. Thank you very much!!!

Superb video, liked & subscribed. Many thanks. It's a huge eye-opener and a big help. I was having a big problem with crew doing the wrong thing when in action e.g. gawking out of the attack periscope when I'm trying to slip away from escorts in shallow water. I've created two three new schedules: "Action Surface" and "Action Submerged". When going to action stations I disable the routine schedules and enable the appropriate action station schedule. With each, everyone is on duty. The surface one makes sure there are lookouts and that the helm and ballast controls are manned. No cooking or cleaning and no periscope use. Submerged action is the same but with no lookouts, and the hydroplanes are manned. Plus some other details. Having to enable/disable schedules and unassigned officers is still a bit clunky, though, it would be nice to see a proper "Action Stations" function and one that doesn't auto-trigger as soon as you see a ship, since there may be a lot of time spent stalking a contact between sighting a launching.

Great explanation thanks. I'm new to the game and this has answered a lot of questions.

I'm on board, Herr Kaleun (Kapitänleutnant KptLtn). Excellent tutorial. Greetings from Germany*

I seem to have read some testimonies that the shifts did not last much like 4 hours, perhaps so the sailors never got too tired and could intervene efficiently at any time, for example for an alarm.

MANY THANKS ! Now i dont have my crew watching from the damn periscope ! Cheers !

Best walkthrough ever. Just kidding busy seriously. lol nice job!

Thanks for taking the time to provide this! I had used way too many based on another's advice but after trying your method...I like it far better. More important tasks are completed making my life easier. :)

A 3 watch system is traditionally 4 on 8 off. A First Officer, 2nd Officer, and 3rd Officer commanding each watch. The 2nd Officer on the 12-4. The most experienced (first officer) on the 4-8, and the most Junior officer(3rd officer) on the 8-12 watch because the Captain won't stand a watch and he is usually awake on days, and available as needed at night. Same for the engine department, First assistant, 2nd assistant, and 3rd assistant engineer each take a 4 hour watch twice a day with 8 hours off in between... and the Chief engineer awake days and available as needed otherwise. Also, they all might work an extra 2 hours at the end of one watch per day to up the hours to 10 hour days each doing maintenance tasks etc... but they always get an 8 hour block off and a 6 hour block off every 24 hour period. That's how freighters typically run. I suppose for this sim the same might work because all you're really doing here is covering the hours of the day with officers, and allowing "crew" to do all the tasks. If you only have 5 officers in the game, two officers running 6 on 6 off will be fine. I do that on my ship in real life and it sucks but it covers the clock and you still get 4 hours a time to sleep because you still need to eat, shower, and unwind to fall asleep and I like a full hour to get up and coffee up before assuming the Navigation watch. Maritime accidents usually happen in the hour before and after a watch change because the officer getting off is tired and the one coming on is groggy because he might have just rolled out of the rack 5 minutes before taking over. It's funny because you'll typically get radio calls to arrange passage from another ship around 3:30 in the morning when the 2nd Mate is worrying about the 1st Mate coming up on watch in 15 minutes and yelling at him for leaving him a meeting situation before he's had his cup of coffee. lol

Been playing this since it came out. I'm happy someone is doing some tutorials. Too many trolls in the discussions causing trouble because they couldn't figure out the game haha. Maybe you get enough people playing we might get an American sub campaign one day.

ahh thats how it works, i thought that the numbers on the tasks show how many hours they will do that task. makes more sence that this an priority thing and the numbers don`t say anything. thank you for your video even if it is old now, nice too see how it works.

Thank you very much for this. Very well explained.

Thank you, this helped A LOT!

man ive been going crazy. thank you so much

Just found this gonna say man this helped me out a lot using 7 officer's in game at moment after using your tips uboat is a well oiled machine.

Wow absolutely outstanding tutorial man! Your understanding of the game is great!

Thank you for the information you provided. I am just starting, so been looking for aid in understanding the mechanics.

Thank you very much for the great explanation! I had some issues with the tasks and because of your video I found the mistake :)

Great Crew Management Tutorial.. thank you!

Great stuff, very helpful.

This is exactly what i need. Thanks a lot!

Fantastically informative video, thanks so much o7

I have set the same thing for my officers but they are all sleeping at once.

Awesome stuff hope you will start posting again man!!

Wow, this is so good I’m going to start a new campaign with Crew Management ON. Thanks.

Great Stuff!

Wonderful Video Thanks !!

Good video definitely a learning curve is this game

Had to subscribe just bought this game

i am curious about a shift strategy. Based on estimated depth and evading a destroyer lets say i bottom the boat for repairs. Would creating a blank "Repair" shift timed as "Anything" for 24 hours with equal priority for repairs , food and sleep only, for the whole boat by disabling all the other schedules, would that speed up repairs and speed up leak patches as the ship is "parked"? So will all crew members be focused only on repairs and sleep until the other shifts are reactivated? Which leads to the other question. do leak patches subtract from spare parts or are they "free"/ "Infinite:?" Basically I am looking at getting game and thought this might be a possible strategy to speed up repairs by diverting the entire crews function to repairs, sleep, and eating as the ship won't be in motion or combat so no idle crewman would be standing around when needed for fixing the boat.

Thank you for the explanation. Can one use the shift system to set up general quarters/man all stations type of deal that will temporarily override the pre-set day/night shift and then set it back? It will then be the captain's (my) responsibility to use it wisely...

Really really good tutorial. Many thanks.

I get the problem with "too much work from officers" with these scheduals..

Great guide! (Edited to remove a comment on officers dynamically adjusting their priorities based on need, as you did address that later in the video.)

I Really Hope you or someone you knows sees this! Just picked this up you and salty have been great help. I have a question though the math isn't adding up in my head as to why I don't have any/won't let me add more sailors when I should have the numbers. So current setup I don't have the extended crew on (would probably be worse lol). But each of my two shifts has 8 sailors total working with (2 for each leader = 4) + (2 per engineer = 4) + (1 for my one radioman) = 17 total with 1 remaining. So if I have squad set for there to be crew assign out of the total anyway with the remainder why can't I only assign 5 crew members amongst all the officers at once? Shouldn't I be able to have them on regardless of shift if there's enough left over from crew tasks for emergencies like help with warming/loading torpedoes. I can't even get 6 to be on at same time like you did with 8 crew members on. Again hope to hear something and thanks in advance and for the vids.

Thanks

Too Bad it doesn't work like this anymore. I assume that this was changed in some past update. This is what people should expect whenever someone puts out a video and the devs see it.

how do you get your logo on the side of the ship ?

There doesn't appear to be anything stopping you using shifts in an entirely different way. Instead of time you could have 2 sailor on cooking shift, 3 oh engines, etc. Even 18 shifts with 1 sailor each.

Why would an officer carry ammunition? He’d order a swabby to do it. I’m fairly sure the officer would be more likely to supervise and direct a gun than actually fire it.

Thanks. I am wondering however, how does the math compute when you assigned 8 sailors per shift and was left with 10 to add to the officers. So 8 are working, 8 are sleeping, which would leave you with 2 spare, but somehow whenever the other 8 should be sleeping, they are actually working for the officers?

I keep getting no crew in the electric motor when submerged. Cannot get anyone to man it. so dead in the water at periscope level.what am I doing wrong.any ideas Please

gread explanation ths and sub from Peter 👍😊

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How to select medic and what is stop direct orders.?

Great tutorial !!

That’s all well and great except it doesn’t work. When the shift change is supposed to happen nobody moves anywhere. They continue doing what they were doing before hand.

what game settings... and what is your pc cpu and GPu ... tnx

22:11 that is stupid tho. Maybe i have 3 officers and want one on watch and one on navigation because navigation also lowers the fuel consumption.

bit late to the party in regards to your vids but great work on these ,

Is there a way to delete the presets in the task menu? Like when I make a change and then save the preset, then make another change and save that preset I'm starting to stack a bunch of preset task ie I have 4 watch officer choices and I want to clear 2 of them out.

So I am just learning the game now. The only problem I see with your technique in this video is that the officers will only do navigation when it drops below 35%. By not having someone on navigation all the time doesn’t your fuel consumption take a big hit? By the way I think it’s kind of silly that you get better fuel consumption by having someone on the navigation table. Plotting a course is plotting a course. How does having men actually working at the navigation table improve fuel? That aspect seems a little silly to me. I understand the engineers tweaking on the engines but a navigator saving fuel by just standing at the navigation table seems silly.

great video except I can't find the time compression button..

Why can't i assign any sailors to the officers, after setting up the crew shifts ect i can't assign any sailors to help my officers, it just won't do anything. Any idea why?

Some good points and learned some tricks thanks. However it really dragged on too much and could have been alot better condensed and edited, over 1hr really was too much

how to board sailors?

8:51 how to delete unused plan from the dropdown menulist?

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how do I undelete them for the shifts

Call me stupid.. But if you have 18 sailors.. You need to divide that by 2 for 2 shifts. (Since you have half sleeping).. Right? So if you want 4 sailors (2 each) per officer that would leave 9 (half of 18) MINUS 4 (assigned to officers) EQUALS 5 to assign to the shift. In other words.. If you have each shift at 8 and 2 officers at 2 sailors each.. You need 8+4 or 12 sailors per shift or 24 total sailors, not 18. What am I missing?

Can or would you list the mods to use pls?

ive played this game for liek a week. a month of ingame time and all ive ever found in "the black pit" is 1 spanish ship. this game is boring as fuck and now 4 out of 5 officers are sleeping at all times as well and I cant even blame them.