What's your favourite U-boot?

[Mikhayl]

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[Webster]

kind of a moot point since ubi announced sh5 is a type VII only game


i actually prefer the type VII C myself but i tend to like anything that has lots of fish :D

[BulSoldier]

Im diveded between VII and IX. So cant really say but i guess ill vote for VII

[mookiemookie]

Give me the sun drenched Caribbean and the exotic port of Freetown in my spiffy Type IX.

[Mikhayl]

Not moot, on the contrary, several members are criticizing Ubi/the devs for their choice and implying that this would turn down a great number of customers. Maybe they're right, maybe not, as the Type VII is often perceived as the most popular, I'd think most people won't actually care about the other boats. So here's a poll to get a slightly better idea :)

[AVGWarhawk]

Ones that are maintained as museum pieces only. :D

[Ducimus]

My favorite sub is obviously a Gato or Balao, always has been, always will be. However, given their absence, well... S'cuse me while i dig up a fossil........

http://www.subsim.com/radioroom/picture.php?albumid=131&pictureid=784

The type IX club, i wasn't just a member, i was a founder. :haha:

[Iron Budokan]

Type 7. Which, I am pressed to add, does not mean I have no interest in playing other types. :cry:

[Adriatico]

Right question is - which u-boat played the main role in Atlantic campaign ? VIIc , of course...

[JScones]

I'm quite partial to the VIIC.

[HundertzehnGustav]

IX/B for life!

[bigboywooly]

IX
Always started my war in Dec 39 when could get a IXB - as no IX ingame - type 2 for those small coastal patrols
Prolly the last boat I would ever pick is the type 7 :doh:

[Terragon]

Love the type II boats. "Little engine that could" mentality.

IXB, Type VII, electro-boat.

[Carotio]

I voted IX, but really I like it this way, roughly speaking:

1939: IIa + IId
1940: VIIb + VIIc + VIIc41
1941: VIIc41 + IXb
1942: IXb + IXc
1943: IXc + IXc40
1944: IXc40 + IXd2
1945: IXd2 + XXI

[Hartmann]

Type IX-b and IX-C for long range, speed, and ammo reloads, also i love big fleet boats too since SH1.

:nope: :down:

[Snestorm]

IXB picking up convoys out of Canada.

[CaptainNemo12]

Type VII and nothing else.:DL

[Sgtmonkeynads]

Bdu says I get a Type VII. Who am I to question.

[Onkel Neal]

Gimme a Type XXI, it'll outrun and outshoot anything on the ocean :O:

[Reece]

Hey no fair voting for the obvious!:stare: Out of spite I voted for the VII!:88)

[THE_MASK]

Well , i guess VII is going to be my favourite ;)

[Turbografx]

Type II, 20 odd meters of single-hulled coziness.

[Sailor Steve]

All of them. I'm not partial.

Of course I voted Type II, but that's just because I'm perverse.

[TarJak]

Love the VIIC and the IXD pretty much equally. Horses for courses though.

VIIC for the Med and shorter Western Approaches patrols, IXD for the long range US Coast/Carribean/South Atlantic/Indian Ocean runs.

[Uber Gruber]

I'm not sure...:wah:

[looney]

I can't decide neither, I usually have 2 or 3 careers simultaniously..
Type 2, type 7 and a type 9...

currently I got a great type 9 career goin. (op monsoon)

[AAtaman]

Of corse Type IXC...It has more torpedoes and fuel isn't a big problem.It is better for submerged attacks.

[kptn_kaiserhof]

AAtaman i agree with you

i like the ixd2 for the range and lots of fish

if a xxi type had a deck gun it would be my favorite

[difool2]

I'll hereby champion the 9 lurkers who also chose the XXI: I'm a big student of alternate history, and it is conceivable that Doenitz, if he had read the writing on the wall early enough, could have had something approximating the final design of the XXI by 1943 (i.e. a more or less true submarine and not a submersible). It gives you a reasonable shot at success at a time when other boats were obsolete deathtraps.

[Jimbuna]

Type IXD2

[johan_d]

VII

But whats the attraction of the small boat ? II

[Buddahaid]

Gato. You did have an other choice. :D

[Deep Dive]

Type VII because i HAD to chose one
i use them all in campaign more or less

[Sub146]

VII :arrgh!:

[sharkbit]

IX/B for life!

Which is probably quite short, you ASDIC magnet!:D

[sharkbit]

I voted Type VII, but I couldn't wait to get a Type IX so I could enjoy the balmy nights in the Carribean listening to Jimmy Buffett with some boat drinks.:DL

Now I just run multiple careers with a variety of boats, including a Type II in the Black Sea.
:)

[U-849]

IXD2 :cool:

[Cold_Gambler]

In SH3 the IX always felt like a lumbering giant to me after spending time in the VII... I did prefer the torpedo load and range of the IX of course, I just wish it would drop under the waves as fast as the VII.

As for the XXI, I missed having a deck gun though using it was suicide except for mopping up a damaged straggler but otherwise a superlative performer.

In the end, the fond memories of happy times with the VII puts it ahead of the others for me :)

[raven1309]

Got to be a VII

[U-Falke]

First option, TYPE XXI.
Second option, a late-war type IX or VII, with good batteries, sonar, radar and snorkel.

With these subs we are talking about submarine warfare.:up:

[Gerald]

Bit depending on time, and mission ... but consistently IXC and XXI at the end of the war...

[Jimbuna]

For ultimate realism the XXIII for the last 6 months of hostilities.

[GT182]

IX of course.... :D

[sidslotm]

the return to base type :sunny:

[Sepp von Ch.]

VII of course:salute:

[Sailor Steve]

IX of course.... :D

VII of course:salute:
One captain's "Of course" is another captain's "Meh". :O:

[Draken230]

Classic boat of Gunther Prien

[almg]

For ultimate realism the XXIII for the last 6 months of hostilities.


Hi everybody!

It's like jimbuna, the type XXIII at the end of the war in SHIII.
This submarine was a very powerful model.

So I hope it will be created one day for SHV :sunny:...


http://imagesup.org/images10/1320513045-2uboottipoxxiiitorr.jpg (http://imagesup.org)


Alban

[Gerald]

@ Draken230! Welcome to SubSim, :sunny:

[Jimbuna]

Classic boat of Gunther Prien

Welcome Matey :sunny:

[Jimbuna]

Hi everybody!

It's like jimbuna, the type XXIII at the end of the war in SHIII.
This submarine was a very powerful model.

So I hope it will be created one day for SHV :sunny:...
Alban

Oh I should imagine it will be one day.

[almg]

Oh I should imagine it will be one day.



Hi jimbuna!

Send me a post when you will have information about type XXIII :up:

Thanks.

Alban

[Jimbuna]

Hi jimbuna!

Send me a post when you will have information about type XXIII :up:

Thanks.

Alban

What info are you after?

[flag4]

...wish i was a billionair then i would have a type V11C built from scratch...and sail the Atlantic

[Sailor Steve]

...wish i was a billionair then i would have a type V11C built from scratch...and sail the Atlantic
If I was a billionaire I would put together a team and create the perfect subsim, then a destroyer sim, then expand my subsim to include American and British and Dutch boats, then...

...then I'd throw you a few thousand for a cruise in your Type VIIC, of course.

[flag4]

If I was a billionaire I would put together a team and create the perfect subsim, then a destroyer sim, then expand my subsim to include American and British and Dutch boats, then...

...then I'd throw you a few thousand for a cruise in your Type VIIC, of course.

...if i was a billionair you wouldnt have to pay!

...you could spend the thousands on patches and mods for those brilliant sims:DL

[Sailor Steve]

...you could spend the thousands on patches and mods for those brilliant sims:DL
I said it would be the 'perfect' subsim. He don't need no stinkin' patches or mods. :O:

[Jimbuna]

If I was a billionaire I'd buy a 50% stake/shareholding in SubSim....I'd need the remaining £100,000 to live on.

[Hazar]

P39 N1 :)

[Jimbuna]

P39 N1 :)

Welcome Aboard :sunny:

[almg]

What info are you after?

Hi everybody!

Jimbuna,

I would like to have information about a mod which allows to play in SH5 with this type of submarine :cool:


http://imagesup.org/images10/1320994155-typexxiii2.jpg (http://imagesup.org)



Alban