The Kaiser's and Admiralty's Intructions to all sailors of the Kriegsmarine.
Being the regulations by which all Officers, Mariners, and Soldiers of the Kriegsmarine will adhere to henceforth.
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CONTENTS:
1- Nautical Terms
2- Shipboard Conduct
3- Signals
4- Promotion Guide
5- Gun Salutes
6- Articles of War
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NAUTICAL TERMS:
Directions:
1- The Physical front of the ship is called 'bow'.
2- The Direction toward the front of the ship is called 'Fore'.
3- The Physical rear of the ship is called 'Stern'.
4- The Direction toward the rear of the ship is called 'Aft'.
5- The right side of the ship is called 'Starboard'.
6- The left side of the ship is called 'Portside'.
SHIPBOARD CONDUCT:
~Before boarding any vessel of the Kriegsmarine, the men are to shout: "Permission to come Aboard" if you are granted, board, if you aren't just go away.
~While boarding you must pay the proper respects to it. This means saluting the Kapitan of the ship.
SIGNALS:
In the navy, we use few signals to comunicate between each ship of the fleet.
The following signals are to be remembered:
1-Form Line Astern Flagship
2-Form Line Before Flagship
3-Form Line Side by side
4-Form Line of Battle
5-Engage the Enemy
6-Retreat
7-Bombard the enemy port
8-Officer Killed in action
9- Killed in action
10-Ship Disabled
11-Understood
Use the Signals like this, Ship name to Ship name, Signal number
-Also when approaching a ship of unknown colours, Shout 'AHOY!' if they fail to reply after 3 hails, permission to fire is granted.
-If your ship is hailed with 'AHOY' You are to reply with: [SHIP NAME], [CAPTAIN OF THE SHIP].
PROMOTION GUIDE:
This guide doesn't mean you are going to get a promotion. The opinion of the Admiralty also counts on promotions.
1- Matrose to Vollmatrose
Attend an event(Patrol, Training, Battle) to get promoted to Vollmatrose.
2- Vollmatrose to Bootsmann
Promotion to Bootsmann requires skills at leading and working as Warrant Officers, you must be able to ensure that all officers orders will be obeyed.
3- Bootsmann to Fahnrich
The Fahnrich are still Warrant Officer technically, but are treated as officers, to become a Fahnrich you must have shown flawless tactical ability, mental eficacy.
After Fahnrich, all other promotions are given within the opinion of the admiralty and your own skills and abilities.
GUN SALUTES:
Everytime when a Kommodore+ come aboard a ship a gun salute must be done and there is an amount of shots to be fired for each rank.
Kommodore, 15 shots.
Vizeadmiral, 17 shots.
Grobadmiral and Generaladmiral, 19 shots.
The Kaiser, 21 shots.
ARTICLES OF WAR:
1-All men of the Kriegsmarine must call all his superior officers as
Herr/Frau (depending on gender),Failure to follow this rule will be awarded with demotion.
2-Mutiny is one of the most serious offenses and it will be awarded with Exile.
3-Team Killing is not allowed unless for training purposes, if you fight or lure someone into a fight you will be awarded with Demotion or exile.
4-Surrender is illegal, if you surrender and the court martial concludes it was for a bad reason you will be awarded with exile or demotion.
5- Every hostile is to be engaged regardless you will win or not.
6- Stupidy is a crime, do the best job you can.
7- If enemies of an official raid surrender, the Officer may show courtesy , but Randomers are Kill on sight, though.
8- Any Major crimes not written here are to be punished according to the Highest Rank on port.
Signed, Leutnant Zur See Jack Aubrey
Generaladmiral Thomas Von Steinsen |