Has anyone gone through the War with a Type II??

[bookworm_020]

I remember some threads about people going through a campaign with just a Type II boat. Has anyone been sucessful???

I wonder how it went toward's the end of the war, would the dugout canoue survive??:hmm:

[High Voltage]

Assuming you could patrol Kenya's Lake Victoria from 1940 onwards, then i would have to say, yes, it could be done...;)

[IRONxMortlock]

I've been playing the game for a year and a half and I still haven't been able to take ANY sub through the entire war! :dead:

I'm curious if all the nice little add ons like radar detectors and snorkels become available for the Type IIs later in the war too?
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[USS Sea Tiger]

Hi

I stuck with one up to Nov 44, now I leave the harbor,, get so damaged by the birds, and return home with zero tonnage

[Torplexed]

I always meant to...but living without a real deck gun to finish off the cripples or to sink the small fry hurts too much.

[Jimbuna]

Assuming you could patrol Kenya's Lake Victoria from 1940 onwards, then i would have to say, yes, it could be done...;)

:roll:
:rotfl: :rotfl:

[XXi]

Perhaps it`s worth a try. I guess IID might be small enough to stand against DCs not worse than, say, VIIC. On the other hand - no deck gun and just 5 torpedoes mean you can`t sink much.... and you risk you`ll just damage the target :(

[bigboywooly]

Well in RL the type II were withdrawn mid 40 and used as school and training boats
6 IIB had a new lease of life in the Black Sea from 42 to 44

So if you make it till the end you will be doing what no type II did
Good luck

[High Voltage]

Perhaps it`s worth a try. I guess IID might be small enough to stand against DCs not worse than, say, VIIC. On the other hand - no deck gun and just 5 torpedoes mean you can`t sink much.... and you risk you`ll just damage the target :(

Not to mention that by the time you make it through the Kiel Canal, you probably only have enough fuel to conduct a raid on Heligoland befor heading back. Lots of gulls for you to pick off with your flak gun (aim for the wings ;))...

[Castout]

I love type II's interio:up:r. There's no hatch door barring the view to the sonar room. Too bad type VII and IX don't have unrestricted view to the sonar room thx to the damn closed hatch door:damn:.

[von Zelda]

Well in RL the type II were withdrawn mid 40 and used as school and training boats
6 IIB had a new lease of life in the Black Sea from 42 to 44

Bigboywooly is correct here.

Type II's were used during the first few months exclusively in the North Sea. They did a lot of mine laying and patroling along the east cost of Britain. Too bad we don't have a mine laying option in SH3. Most all of the early Type II's were sent to the Baltic as training boats to be brought back to combat with just about every other available u-boat for the battle for Norway in April 1940. From then on they were pretty much used for traing exclusively except for 6 Type II's that were transported overland to form a Flotilla in Black Sea where they remained.

You might try a career with a Type II in the Black Sea, that might be neat.

[TriskettheKid]

I've done it, and yes, it is god awful hard once you start figuring out fuel estimates.

The trick, as I found, is to switch flotillas...a LOT. And you have to run very slow, so as to save fuel.

But the trick is to switch to the Med as soon as you can, and then switch to the Black Sea. That does make things easier, but OMFG, it is not fun once you hit 1943. Every single patrol from mid-1943 to 1945 was sheer terror, because of fuel constraints, I had to attack all that I found, unless it was sheer suicide.

But VERY satisfying when you walk away with decent numbers. Like when I successfully sunk a Revenge and 2 Didos in the Med in 42. That was an amazing feeling.

[Payoff]

I always wondered about the upgrades, as mentioned above. Can you get a Snorkel and Radar later in the war?

[Jimbuna]

Most definitely :arrgh!:

[STEED]

I tried it once but Bernard was on the beans and we ran out of air. :lol:

[Torplexed]

I tried it once but Bernard was on the beans and we ran out of air. :lol:
:rotfl::rotfl::rotfl:

Bernard needs his own personal snorkel...but it's not a pretty thought. ;)

[bookworm_020]

I tried it once but Bernard was on the beans and we ran out of air. :lol:

Bernard as a AIP uint? Might be useful toward the end of 1944!

I asked this question as I had seen some posts a while ago of people who were seeing out the war in a Type II. I know it wasn't realistic, as metioned above, due to them been religated to training.