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Buying Time: Using a spanner for repairs

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N-Sunderland:
Another thing I'd note is that when the balloon goes down, the pilot should be using a spanner to bring it back up. This takes a huge amount of the workload off the main engineer.

dragonmere:
There is no such thing as too much hull repair from a single engineer during a battle. If there is any chance that anything will be hitting your ship, there should probably be an engineer already tapping with a spanner, just as you said for light repairs. And if you actually came up with the spanner strategy completely on your own - good on you, you are going to do well in this game. I usually have to directly request spanner for repairs when 2/3 or more armor remains, and half the time the engineer thinks I'm full of crap and/or crazy.

In the future, if you are on a ship that has 2 or more engineers, and you plan on taking the hull, just announce it. You are on hull during battle, and you are unavailable to get the balloon so the other engineer MUST handle it every time. Same with engines, if one goes down a competent captain can manage just fine, but if 2 or more go red, call the 2nd engineer to get them, then help out quickly when you evade/kill the enemy. You can't be expected to keep the ship alive AND fix everything at the same time, and keeping the ship alive is a much more important task.

If you did any of the things you said above on MY ship, you would be my hero. I've had people on my flak cannon, that I absolutely PRAISED for holding their flak shot, who said that other captains had ripped them apart for not constantly firing. It's all just a matter of experience, perspective, and personal preference.

Mattilald Anguisad:
Spanner gives you a few precious seconds of protection against some forms of weapon filre (like ussualy against gat fire). Agains single gat fire you can ussualy get about 4-6 seconds extra, as opposed by starting with mallet.

Sonoskay:
Seems like you are a fine engineer. I know i don't have the experience alot of people do i do try to better myself by reading and learning. And to be honest if you were on the hull and  balloon is going down and if you are under real heavy fire its a safe bet your engines are going down too... So... why didn't the captain break away from his steering wheel and repair the balloon? or at least try?  chances are your not moving very far without your balloon. and even worse if your engines are down too....on Junkers,  goldfish and galleon when i captain i usually take it upon myself to tap the balloon if things are going to hell and my engies have their hands full.


It sounds like you did just fine. and you will always find captains who have their heads so far up their butts that it seems like they are fighting a completely  different battle. Dont get too  upset ;)

naufrago:
While I'm worried that your opinions are skewed from just getting my perspective, you've convinced me that it's not a big deal. Your opinions mirror mine pretty closely, so I'll just move on. Thanks.

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