Favorite submarine

[Kapitan Soniboy]

Childish perhaps, but I want to know what's your favorite submarine to play with in Silent Hunter 3 is. Where do people like to hunt the most? Do you like to travel across the Atlantic to the US in a big IX class submarine or do you like to hunt in the shallow waters between the British isles in a type II for example?

The reason why I ask this is because I want some more ideas on how to play the game and what people enjoy doing within the game.

I tried something new today which was very fun! In mid 1940 with my VIIc I attacked a HUGE convoy with only one destroyer escort:D. I attacked the convoy at night several times. But one day I "forgot" about the destroyer and he detected me. I tried running away facing my "butt" torpedo at him. BOOM and he was going down. Lucky shot! Later I gunned the entire convoy down with my 88 (had to leave two ships after running out of ammo and they recieved air cover early the next morning):arrgh!:! That was fun!

Now YOU tell me what you like to do:O:!

(If a similar topic exist please direct me, and sorry for my bad English)

[Mopy]

I usually hunt just north of Ireland in AM52/AM53 early in the war. It's February 1940, and I'm just leaving from Wilhelmshaven for the 2nd Flotilla in a VIIB. Patrol number five.

I've only just discovered the delights of GWX and 100% realism, charting, plotting and intercepting targets properly. I also added a DiD rule to the game. Determined to survive the whole of the war with no reloads, this is where most of my fun is coming from.

I'm not sure what I'll be doing next. Probably looking for better hunting grounds as non stop Large Merchant/Medium Cargo/Coastal Vessel is getting a bit tedious. Some tankers would be nice, but I wonder if these are more prevelant later in the war.

Other than that, I have been offered the IX but turned it down in favour of keeping the VIIB.

For your game, how about a GWX3 DiD at 100%? Unless you do this already, or something harder :sunny: in which case I don't have any other suggestions. Med Flotilla maybe?

-Edit - VIIB not VIIC.

[Kapitan Soniboy]

Hey and thanks for your reply.

I recently downloaded GWX3 too and it's just brilliant. You could say I play with 100% realism but I like external camera like when I'm depth charged. I've never actually tried patrolling in the Med. Maybe that's fun too:salute:

The large convoys come from the west. I guess there's not much life in the Med.

[Pohl]

I prefer the Type IX due to it's high torpedo capacity and huge diesel tank it can take me anywhere I want...so it works for me =P.

The Med is fun...if you can stand having only 5 torpedos and nothing more D=, also nights are pitch black in there.

[Sailor Steve]

One of each. Multiple careers, played simultaneously.:sunny:

[Jimbuna]

My favourite boat is the IX, I like to travel far and wide during the hunt.

I'm curently driving a XXIII out of Bergen and picking the juciest target in the convoys I encounter with my very limited eel capacity http://www.psionguild.org/forums/images/smilies/wolfsmilies/pirate.gif

[Zilch]

I'm all about waiting in grid BF 13 for a convoy to troll through in my Type VIIB. I'm sure there were good real life reasons to switch to the VIIC, but in game, not really, unless porcupine conning towers are your thing. Since I don't engage planes anyway, the VIIB gives better performance for less renown. Unless, of course, you VIIC types know something I don't.

The VIIB is decent at anything I want it to do. Only thing I'd ask of it is higher torp capacity, but you can't have everything. It's a solid boat. I'll stick with it for now.

[Kapitan Soniboy]

Nice:up:

Do you even notice any difference between VIIB and VIIC?

[karamazovnew]

Type VII.... where's my "kiss love hug" smiley?! Oh well, this will have to do:
:rock:TYPE VII:rock:
And please don't tell Doenitz about it but I sink only warships :haha:. Which means I usually troll around Scapa, Iceland and the Med.

[Betonov]

type VII, no doubt
Subs are like women, some are new, some are easy, most are beautiful... but there's allways that one that gets your heart no matter how much better are out there and thats the VII:salute:
Dates are short with her and dangerous, but so much more interesting, just like my real life love (not a sub)

And my favourite hunting grounds are south west of Ireland and near the gibraltar on the atlantic side. There be ye olde convoy routes there:arrgh!:

[Leg]

Type IX! A big lady that if treated nicely will reward you. :up:

[Melonfish]

oh man convoys with 1 escort, how i miss them!
also merchants without guns...

my fave has got to be the VIIB that angular bow, the sweeping saddletanks that silky riveted hull......

Ahem...

er yeah my fave defo, you do fall in love with the boats, and the VIIB is what i love the C is nice but i don't like the bow.

[Kapitan Soniboy]

Well it looks like many people like the VIIB :DL. I forgot to mention the IX/D2 which is a biiig ship. And there is one IX/D2 resting in the fjord just outside my house. Hehe

[Hanomag]

Type IXb,c,d2.... of course.. :up:

[Task Force]

Viib...:DL Learn how to use it. its a nice machine.

[Zilch]

Well it looks like many people like the VIIB :DL. I forgot to mention the IX/D2 which is a biiig ship. And there is one IX/D2 resting in the fjord just outside my house. Hehe

That's very cool that you have such access to a piece of history like that. Is it resting literally in the fjord, underwater, or is it a museum ship?

The closest WW2 submarine to me is hundreds of miles way. I'm happy to have visited two, though, in my day.

[Kapitan Soniboy]

That's very cool that you have such access to a piece of history like that. Is it resting literally in the fjord, underwater, or is it a museum ship?

The closest WW2 submarine to me is hundreds of miles way. I'm happy to have visited two, though, in my day.

The submarine left for Japan in late 1945. It had blueprints of late nazi weapons like the Me262 and the V2 rocket. It also had several containers of floating mercury. Just outside Bergen at a place called Fedje the U-boat was sunk by a British submarine. Today it rests below the surface at a depth of 250 meters. The inhabitants of Fedje want the submarine raised because the floating mercury is leaking from the wreck.

They plan to raise the sub next year and I'm really looking forward to post some pictures here on this forum:up:. That's about all I know. :smug:

And by the way, the submarine is the only one in WWII to be sunk by another submarine while both were underwater. The British really had one lucky shot :rock:

[Zilch]

The submarine left for Japan in late 1945. It had blueprints of late nazi weapons like the Me262 and the V2 rocket. It also had several containers of floating mercury. Just outside Bergen at a place called Fedje the U-boat was sunk by a British submarine. Today it rests below the surface at a depth of 250 meters. The inhabitants of Fedje want the submarine raised because the floating mercury is leaking from the wreck.

They plan to raise the sub next year and I'm really looking forward to post some pictures here on this forum:up:. That's about all I know. :smug:

And by the way, the submarine is the only one in WWII to be sunk by another submarine while both were underwater. The British really had one lucky shot :rock:

Oh, THAT Type IX! I remember reading about it elsewhere in the forum. Be sure to take as many pics as you can for those of us who can't be there in person. :D

Raising the boat, on it's own, is something of a historical event. It'll be cool for you to be there when it happens. Are they planning on making it a museum or anything once it's raised?

[Kapitan Soniboy]

Are they planning on making it a museum or anything once it's raised?

The ship is blasted in half but I think they will put things like the periscope and the conning tower at a museum in Bergen :yeah:

Look at this picture
http://www.nmf.no/images/u864_kystverket_620b.JPG

And here is a sonar image of the wreck
http://www.johnelkington.com/weblog/U864.jpg

[Zilch]

The ship is blasted in half but I think they will put things like the periscope and the conning tower at a museum in Bergen :yeah:

Look at this picture
http://www.nmf.no/images/u864_kystverket_620b.JPG

And here is a sonar image of the wreck
http://www.johnelkington.com/weblog/U864.jpg

Cool!

[kz26]

Cool!

17 tons of mercury in the middle? Yikes...

[Puster Bill]

The submarine left for Japan in late 1945. It had blueprints of late nazi weapons like the Me262 and the V2 rocket. It also had several containers of floating mercury. Just outside Bergen at a place called Fedje the U-boat was sunk by a British submarine. Today it rests below the surface at a depth of 250 meters. The inhabitants of Fedje want the submarine raised because the floating mercury is leaking from the wreck.

They plan to raise the sub next year and I'm really looking forward to post some pictures here on this forum:up:. That's about all I know. :smug:

And by the way, the submarine is the only one in WWII to be sunk by another submarine while both were underwater. The British really had one lucky shot :rock:

I'm thinking they are going to make a *FORTUNE* off of that floating mercury, which is exceedingly rare...

[Cambaz]

VIIC is may fav. actually more than a fav. she is like an obsession for me...
I like her creepy demonic unlucky shape and her abilities also :)

[Puster Bill]

I like her creepy demonic unlucky shape and her abilities also :)


That reminds me, I should send my wife some flowers...


Seriously, though, I like the boats in the following order:

VII
II
XXI
IX

Just never got into the IX. I have yet to try a XXIII. I hope they are native to SHV though, they seem like they would be *FUN*.

[Mlody]

my fav is VIIB slightly faster than VIIC, and that net cutting stuff on the bow... i wonder if you can make a hole in the anti-sub net with it????

[Kapitan Soniboy]

my fav is VIIB slightly faster than VIIC, and that net cutting stuff on the bow... i wonder if you can make a hole in the anti-sub net with it????

Last time I collided with an anti-submarine net it was like colliding with a stone wall... :wah:

[FIREWALL]

Just moved up from a VII to a IXC. What a pig. :down::nope:

Takes forever to dive or surface. Have to blow ballast 2 or 3 times just to get to peri depth from 75 mtrs useing ahead full too. btw the diving time in F1 isn't even close. :haha:

A balloon could sink faster.

Will gladly lose the renoun to get Good Ole VII back. :woot:

The IXB or C is only good in long range patrols for obvious reasons. :know:

The VII is the best in town boat. :yep:

[Hartmann]

IX-B

Good load of torpedos, speed, AA weapons, and range. :yeah:

[Gunnodayak]

Definitely type IX D2, I take endurance over mobility.

[Red Heat]

Well for me and my crew and my kind of missions...its the VII B, for me its the best of the best! :salute:

[Kaleun]

ViiD minelayer - only available as a mod, but in RL it has extra fuel due to it's extra length and could roam across the pond near the US and lay mine but still maintain the full torp loadout/firepower of Vii and apparantly the extra length allowed for extra ammenties ie refridgerated food storage.

Kaleun

[Von Talon]

IXD2 of course! She can take you to the other side of the world becouse of her large fuel tanks!

XXI is lamest, becouse she has no deck gun or ass tube.

[JHuschke]

My favorite submarine is the Typ VIIC Klasse, may not be the best but it is for me. I usually patrol the grids of AM and AN as well.

[Kapitan Soniboy]

My favorite submarine is the Typ VIIC Klasse, may not be the best but it is for me. I usually patrol the grids of AM and AN as well.

VIIC is rated number 1 on top 10 submarines on discovery channel :DL

But I don't really know the difference between VIIB and C... If B is so much better than C, why make C?

[Jimbuna]

VIIC is rated number 1 on top 10 submarines on discovery channel :DL

But I don't really know the difference between VIIB and C... If B is so much better than C, why make C?

The Type C was open to more improvements such as range and armaments etc.

[SeaWolf U-57]

Mine is the GWX version VIIC/42 battle sub
it just looks so cool :salute:

[Kapitan Soniboy]

Fun to see what people like. Keep it up! :)

[Pohl]

VIIC is rated number 1 on top 10 submarines on discovery channel :DL


http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=T6PXdmyON6M

But I can't find the entire video =/

[Snestorm]

IXB is my addiction. I like to hunt convoys around BC43 (West of Canada).
Shadowing and sending contact reports so all the VIIB and VIIC drivers know what's coming their way, and when to expect it. I have to travel in the same direction, and at about the same speed, as the convoys anyway, so why not help my mates out with some intel?

My second choice is the VIIB. For that, AM53 is the place to be. Well at least until the RAF wakes up. Then AM19 (Rockall Bank) suits me just fine.

Third choice is the IXC. By this time I'm usualy just trying to follow orders, do my grid, and survive.

[Rafael]

I prefer the VIIC. :yep:

Alternatively would a VIIB OK too.

My third sub would be the IXB for longer distances.

[sergei]

No love for the type II?
In my new career I am trolling around the North Sea just east of Scotland in a IIA.
She's slow. Has got no range. No deck gun. Only 5 eels. Looks like a toy boat.
Strangely enough I have come to love that little boat. Using it to earn my way up to a VII. Only another 2 patrols I reckon. But when I trade up I'm sure gonna miss that little thing!

[Ford Prefect]

No love for the type II?
In my new career I am trolling around the North Sea just east of Scotland in a IIA.
She's slow. Has got no range. No deck gun. Only 5 eels. Looks like a toy boat.
Strangely enough I have come to love that little boat. Using it to earn my way up to a VII. Only another 2 patrols I reckon. But when I trade up I'm sure gonna miss that little thing!

One thing you won't miss is it's awful depth keeping. At low speeds the top of the conning tower ends up poking out of the water when set at periscope depth. The VII is far better in that respect.

[sergei]

One thing you won't miss is it's awful depth keeping. At low speeds the top of the conning tower ends up poking out of the water when set at periscope depth. The VII is far better in that respect.

Funny you should say that. Not something I ever noticed before. All my attacks this career have been in atrocious weather.
But today waiting for a target, doing 1 knot a periscope depth in dead calm seas I noticed the top of my conning tower butting above the surface. Had to manually order a depth of 12 metres, even then it barely kept at 10, just beneath the surface.
Bring on the VII! Just 1 more patrol, I'll have enough saved up.

[U2222]

No love for the type II?
In my new career I am trolling around the North Sea just east of Scotland in a IIA.
She's slow. Has got no range. No deck gun. Only 5 eels. Looks like a toy boat.
Strangely enough I have come to love that little boat. Using it to earn my way up to a VII. Only another 2 patrols I reckon. But when I trade up I'm sure gonna miss that little thing!

I agree that it certainly offers a challenge
Makes you think about your targets

[Shearwater]

Type VIIB probably.
But I think the IID is a nifty little boat. Just a bit short on eels.

[Kpt. Lehmann]

One of each. Multiple careers, played simultaneously.:sunny:
Ditto!

[Kpt. Lehmann]

My favourite boat is the IX, I like to travel far and wide during the hunt.

I'm curently driving a XXIII out of Bergen and picking the juciest target in the convoys I encounter with my very limited eel capacity http://www.psionguild.org/forums/images/smilies/wolfsmilies/pirate.gif

Ohhhhh my friend Jimbuna, I could have so much fun with that!:smug:

... but I'll just be nice and close the hatch. :D

[Kptlt Thomsen]

Type VIIc/42 for me! Best all round performer if you ask me.:up:

[Snestorm]

One thing you won't miss is it's awful depth keeping. At low speeds the top of the conning tower ends up poking out of the water when set at periscope depth. The VII is far better in that respect.

Stability. That's something I realy like about the IXB.
At just a hair under 2 knots, my guys can generaly do a good job at holding 12 meters.
The Type IIA in particular was a real PITA.

[Danelov]

IID , each torpedo count and I like a lot this boat.

[Deputy]

Type XXI. Almost like having a modern Seawolf sub in WW2. Load it up with homing torpedos and look out convoys!!!! :DL

Dep

[krashkart]

I'll toss my favorites in here:

My two favorites thus far are the VIIB and the IXC. I like the VIIB because it packs a lot of punch in a small package. :yep:

The IXC is just a beast, pure and simple. Watching her cruise by submerged makes me wish I had gone to film school, and the '105 makes a dirty job even dirtier. :arrgh!:

[ryanglavin]

My IXD2 has let me sail across all the oceans in a single patrol! 50k tons on a 387 day patrol. Alot of punch for alot of distance.

[IanC]

IID , each torpedo count and I like a lot this boat.

Type II is a hot little number. :yep:

[Tarnsman]

Type IX all classes.

It and the Gato are the most beutifull subs ever built. If you are going to sea in a submarine go in style!

[krashkart]

If I'm gonna die in a steel tube, it might as well look like it could properly kick something in the a$$. :salute:

[corvette k225]

I prefer the Type IXB due to it's high torpedo capacity,And105 deck gun
and the those long shots in the South Altantic. Just wish SHV had Type IX
boats.:salute:

[Ancient Mariner]

My sub of choice lately has been the type VIIC, I normally patrol round the denmark straight's southern entrance near to the "Milch cow"(forget the name at the moment) giving me some flexability to head states side or back south.

Looking forward to giving a IXC a blast and hunting in the warmer waters of the carribean..tankers galore in that region:arrgh!:

Overall I would rate

Type VII as fave-She got my first 200K worth of shipping:arrgh!:
IX-Have sailed one a while ago,was good slow dive times though
Type II-Sailed briefly,hasn't got the range or weapons capacity I enjoy
XXI-Sailed once,used a mod to set up a hypothetical career...sank a grand total of 2 ships for 10k before being sunk myself. Disaster in shallow waters,will have another go in the deeper water at some point,before passing a final judgement

[Fader_Berg]

Type II, without a doubt. A can of whoop ass.

[Iranon]

As someone who feels more comfortable attempting to sink destroyers than sneaking away while having trash cans dropped on him, I like the IXB.

[GREY WOLF 3]

http://i588.photobucket.com/albums/ss325/flipflopjd/German-U-Boat.jpg

Its got to be this little beauty:yeah:

[RConch]

Type VII B or C.

[Matador.es]

I just can not c why anyone would favor the VII above the IX? What is it that I dont get? You have "half" the torpedoes to spend in the VII. Ranges are shorter, right; one advantage with the VII, you have more deck gun shells onboard, whoa, try your luck up from end '42 with it :P

I just dont get the point of stretching as far as possible to the middle of the atlantic where the sky is clear, to be enforced to turn back witin a few days cause you ran out of torp?

The boat is a platform, it gives mobility to the tropedoes. But what if you dont have any onboard? nice platform.... mobile, but waste of efford and risk i guess.

Aye

[Deputy]

My sub of choice lately has been the type VIIC, I normally patrol round the denmark straight's southern entrance near to the "Milch cow"(forget the name at the moment) giving me some flexability to head states side or back south.

Looking forward to giving a IXC a blast and hunting in the warmer waters of the carribean..tankers galore in that region:arrgh!:

Overall I would rate

Type VII as fave-She got my first 200K worth of shipping:arrgh!:
IX-Have sailed one a while ago,was good slow dive times though
Type II-Sailed briefly,hasn't got the range or weapons capacity I enjoy
XXI-Sailed once,used a mod to set up a hypothetical career...sank a grand total of 2 ships for 10k before being sunk myself. Disaster in shallow waters,will have another go in the deeper water at some point,before passing a final judgement

Try using the XXI with the mod that lets you start using it in 1939 and Wolfie's Tweak Pack that lets you have homing torpedoes for ALL YEARS in EVERY TUBE. You can cruise forever underwater without being detected by aircraft and the advanced radar and sonar will find ships much better than just visual detection. You can sneak into a convoy at slow speed without being detected, do your damage, and sneak out. Destroyers can be sunk pretty much at will. I usually pick all of them off first and then go after the cargo ships. But yes, stay out of shallow water. :up:
The AA guns are pretty efficient ont he XXI if they are manned by petty officers with the AA rating and a goodly number of medals (they earn them quickly in an XXI). It only gets really flakey when you run into swarms of aircraft.

[Matador.es]

Hmmm, its all about realism i realise. Do you have that MOD with which you can use ICBMS and take out England in about 30 minutes? Coole one! Down side the game ends afterwards :har:

[Deputy]

I just can not c why anyone would favor the VII above the IX? What is it that I dont get? You have "half" the torpedoes to spend in the VII. Ranges are shorter, right; one advantage with the VII, you have more deck gun shells onboard, whoa, try your luck up from end '42 with it :P

I just dont get the point of stretching as far as possible to the middle of the atlantic where the sky is clear, to be enforced to turn back witin a few days cause you ran out of torp?

The boat is a platform, it gives mobility to the tropedoes. But what if you dont have any onboard? nice platform.... mobile, but waste of efford and risk i guess.

Aye

LOL...following that line of thinking, why would anyone take a Type IX over a type XXI? I have SIX torpedo tubes and ALL my reserve torpedoes are inside the boat, so no surfacing to load reserve torpedoes. No deck guns to slow down the sub. It's a TRUE submarine that is more efficient UNDERWATER than on the surface.

I don't see the point of travelling all the way out to the middle of the Atlantic to be detected because of a noisy boat, and then being sunk by a destroyer to end your hunt.

To each his own. :DL :up:

[Matador.es]

Try using the XXI with the mod that lets you start using it in 1939 and Wolfie's Tweak Pack that lets you have homing torpedoes for ALL YEARS in EVERY TUBE. You can cruise forever underwater without being detected by aircraft and the advanced radar and sonar will find ships much better than just visual detection. You can sneak into a convoy at slow speed without being detected, do your damage, and sneak out. Destroyers can be sunk pretty much at will. I usually pick all of them off first and then go after the cargo ships. But yes, stay out of shallow water. :up:
The AA guns are pretty efficient ont he XXI if they are manned by petty officers with the AA rating and a goodly number of medals (they earn them quickly in an XXI). It only gets really flakey when you run into swarms of aircraft.



Hmmm, its all about realism i realise. Do you have that MOD with which you can use ICBMS and take out England in about 30 minutes? Coole one! Down side the game ends afterwards :har:

[Deputy]

Hmmm, its all about realism i realise. Do you have that MOD with which you can use ICBMS and take out England in about 30 minutes? Coole one! Down side the game ends afterwards :har:

hypothetical career :03:
If they had a mod that allowed a towed barge with a V2 missile I'd probably try it. :up:

[Deputy]

Heck, if they come up with a SSN-774 Virginia sub mod, I'll even give that a try!!! It can be a hypothetical "Nazi Germany in the future after the US economy collapses" campaign. :D

[Kremmen]

Another vote for the type VIIB
Dunno,when I think u-boat I alway picture the VII

Who know's,one day I might even survive long enough to get the chance to try one of the big new boats :haha:
c'est la vie

[Iranon]

I just can not c why anyone would favor the VII above the IX? What is it that I dont get? You have "half" the torpedoes to spend in the VII. Ranges are shorter, right; one advantage with the VII, you have more deck gun shells onboard, whoa, try your luck up from end '42 with it :P

I just dont get the point of stretching as far as possible to the middle of the atlantic where the sky is clear, to be enforced to turn back witin a few days cause you ran out of torp?

The boat is a platform, it gives mobility to the tropedoes. But what if you dont have any onboard? nice platform.... mobile, but waste of efford and risk i guess.

Aye


This is coming from someone who likes the big ladies...

but the type VII is a lot more survivable. Harder to pick up for ASW ships, more nimble for sudden course changes to throw them off or to get into the right firing position.

Your tonnage may not even be that much higher with a type IX. Let's assume I have sunk a few juicy merchants or a capital ship and would do my little victory dance if I wasn't afraid some British sonar operator would pick it up...
often enough I'd simply sneak away in a type VII but fight it out with the escorts in a type IX, because shaking pursuers becomes noticably harder.

As I said, I prefer to take down troublesome ships on my tail rather than run, so I don't get as much from the better stealth capabilities and appreciate the bigger loadout. In a type VII, this leaves rather few eels for merchants once you can't sink 10 of them with shells any more.

[maillemaker]

Hmmm, its all about realism i realise. Do you have that MOD with which you can use ICBMS and take out England in about 30 minutes? Coole one! Down side the game ends afterwards

It would be fun to play an immersive game that allowed nuclear weapons. :)

I would love to see the simulation external cam of an attack on a convoy using a nuclear torpedo. :)

[krashkart]

I just started a campaign in the XXI, using one of those mods. I gotta say, having all those bells and whistles is really nice, right up until I run into a situation where I would rather gun down a merchant than waste an eel on it. I'm only three patrols in and already suffering deck gun withdrawals.

I'm getting myself back into a Type VII ASAP. :yep:

[Matador.es]

often enough I'd simply sneak away in a type VII but fight it out with the escorts in a type IX, because shaking pursuers becomes noticably harder.

As I said, I prefer to take down troublesome ships on my tail rather than run, so I don't get as much from the better stealth capabilities and appreciate the bigger loadout. In a type VII, this leaves rather few eels for merchants once you can't sink 10 of them with shells any more.

I agree on both :salute:

[Schultz]

Type VIIC, and maybe XXI

[Apache312]

for me its the VIIC/42. Good rate of dive, plenty of fish, good range above and underwater, good speed on surface, and massive flak firepower. Twin C-38 and I dont have to dive as often in good weather. I just stay up and rack up the air kills, which really helped my renown in the vanilla game. Still waiting for that setup in GWX...early in my career.

/S

Apache312

[BillCar]

VIIB and VIIC - I almost always sail in these

II - I just started my first-ever campaign with the 1st Flotilla in 1939, using a Type IIA along the English coast. I... love this little boat, and I am not sure why.

IX - I sailed a IXB once. It was alright. I'm going to try it again someday, and maybe the IXC/40 with Schnelltauchback (once that mod is ready!)

[Rapt0r56]

Type VIIC in the freezzy North Atlantic, that my Point. http://www.smilies-emoticons.de/brutal/brutal_2.gif

[ceki]

Type VII. Since I started to play on 100% realism I want every advantage I can have.

[martin1004]

I'm more in to coastal hunting. So type VII it is, I prefer VIIC. Started my career in 2nd Flotilla 1939 with a VIIB. It's very manouverable and thats what I need in shallow waters. Also it's diving time is an advantage. Just did a test dive and as I reached 235m I heard some glass breaking so I decided not to go deeper. Thats more than I need around the English coastline anyway.
What I like about type IX is that they are very durable and spacious but since long distance patrols aren't really my thing I haven't started a career with it.
In type II the limited range got me although it's a great feeling to hunt in it.

[BillCar]

In type II the limited range got me although it's a great feeling to hunt in it.

I've yet to run out of fuel in my Type IIA. Generally, my torpedoes have all put things at the bottom of the sea long before I make it down to 50% fuel. Hunting the English east coast is fun! You should give the Type IIs another shot. I waited for a long time, and I was really missing out.

[Panser]

I would say type VIIB for me.

It has good range for all but the most prolonged US east coast hunt. It's comparatively fast both surfaced and submerged and best of all, it crash dives extremely quickly. It's marginally faster than the VIIC, and although it isn't rated to go as deep, it can go more than deep enough to evade all but the worst screwing. She's a nimble little thing and can be extremely stealthy.

Sure, the IX is faster, can carry more eels and has a greater range, but I reckon the VII is a better all-rounder. A big factor for me is that the big type IX also can't run decks awash half as stealthily as a VII can.

[Matador.es]

and massive flak firepower. Twin C-38 2

Do you stay surfaced during air attacks? i only use my flac to help the deck gun for sinking the last ship when i run out of 88's. I always dive.... risk for damage is to high.

[rishsin23]

oh man convoys with 1 escort, how i miss them!
also merchants without guns...

my fave has got to be the VIIB that angular bow, the sweeping saddletanks that silky riveted hull......

Ahem...

er yeah my fave defo, you do fall in love with the boats, and the VIIB is what i love the C is nice but i don't like the bow.


Me too, learned that a hard way after firing torpedoes thought to finish last guy with deck gun, bruh watch officer said we're under attack

[Aktungbby]

rishin23!:Kaleun_Salute:...finally on the surface after 27 days of 'silent running'!:up::lurk:

[Raf1394]

I don't really have a specific preference.

I mostly play with the VIIB.
VIIC and IX are pretty nice too. The IX uboats pack a lot of torpedoes, and are good for long range patrols. (also has a strong 105 mm deckgun)

The VIIB and VIIC are the more ordinary boats.
I don't have a lot of experience with the upgraded VIIC's, 41 and 42. Also didn't play a lot with the XXI elektro boat.

The IIA and IID are nice little coastal boats. Good for short range combat (raiding ports)

[Shadowblade]

Type IX of course, 22 torpedoes vs 14 torpedoes on Type VII => more tonnage per patrol :arrgh!:
Plus 105 mm deckgun.
Easy choice.

[Jimbuna]

Type IX of course, 22 torpedoes vs 14 torpedoes on Type VII => more tonnage per patrol :arrgh!:
Plus 105 mm deckgun.
Easy choice.

Agreed :yep:

[Raf1394]

Would like to see the exact difference in payload between the 105mm and 88mm deck gun.

It seems the 105mm can sometimes sink a ship with only two accurate shots.

When firing with the deck gun 105 or 88, i always try to shoot at the waterline. Instead of the ship itself (tower, bridge)
And just let it sink after a while.

[Jimbuna]

When firing with the deck gun 105 or 88, i always try to shoot at the waterline. Instead of the ship itself (tower, bridge)
And just let it sink after a while.

That is precisely how I use the deck gun.

[Shadowblade]

Would like to see the exact difference in payload between the 105mm and 88mm deck gun.

It seems the 105mm can sometimes sink a ship with only two accurate shots.

When firing with the deck gun 105 or 88, i always try to shoot at the waterline. Instead of the ship itself (tower, bridge)
And just let it sink after a while.


Bigger holes and damage for 105 mm deckgun.


waterline - yeah, same + aiming at engine room and spreading the under waterline hits across the length of ship to flood all compartments when shelling bigger ships.

[Raf1394]

Bigger holes and damage for 105 mm deckgun.


waterline - yeah, same + aiming at engine room and spreading the under waterline hits across the length of ship to flood all compartments when shelling bigger ships.

Nice thanks :Kaleun_Salute:

[rishsin23]

rishin23!:Kaleun_Salute:...finally on the surface after 27 days of 'silent running'!:up::lurk:

I hardly go underwater unless I spot a ship or i am waiting for one or weather is too bad so occassionally for hydrophones. Also due to the fact it's 1941.

[JU_88]

Im quite happy in Type 7 or 9 of any kind, I just hate the Type 7Bs Turm II, i call it the 'twat Turm' because if I have one then Im just being twat for not upgrading to a Type 7C.
I cant stand the Type II, great dive times but eveything else about it is a waste of space, fight me! :D

[Shadowblade]

I cant stand the Type II, great dive times but eveything else about it is a waste of space, fight me! :D


well, when I have started with Type II I had to move to flotilla with Type VIIBs.
I need to have a fun with deckgun with all those unarmed ships around :arrgh!: