SINK EM ALL!! http://img856.imageshack.us/img856/8636/cdw.gif

I'm on my first patrol in roughly 4 years, trying to decide if I should get the type VIIC or the IXC come mid 1940...they both play so differently I remember: the VII is easier with escape and evade but the IX has all those eels in its hold...:shifty:

I've always preferred the Type IX http://img856.imageshack.us/img856/8636/cdw.gif

22 torpedo's!!? I forget there were that many...and the 105 gun:hmm2:

I'm thinking the IXC should serve me well in the mid Atlantic, should make for some interesting patrol logs...

The IX is basically a commerce raider, best suited for hunting distant waters where ships sail solo or unescorted.

For convoy battles, you have a far better chance of survival in a type VII, due to better maneuverability and faster diving times.

I prefer a type VIIB until about Dec 1941, then I take a IX to the American eastern seaboard and the Caribbean. I want a VIIC from Jan of 1943 on.

The XXI is only available for a few months in 1945. At most I got 2 patrols with it. Didn't find it all that interesting.

The IXD2 being the ultimate.

If memory serves the main purpose of the type IX's extensive range and torpedo compliment was to allow it to stalk a convoy and attack the same convoy repeatedly.

I read in wikipedia that the Type IXD2 didn't see any action, like the VIIC/42

Hmm...only one example of many Type IXD2 boats.

http://uboat.net/boats/u181.htm

IXD2's were used on patrols though, in fact in 1945 the "tommies" sank U-864 a IXD2 near Fedje, Norway as it was trying to carry canisters of Mercury, blueprints and jet engine parts, and Scientists to Japan as part of the German/Japanese military trade pact.

During that action the captain of U-864 a "Ralf-Reimar Wolfram" attempted to sink the submarine H.M.S. Venturer, which ended up torpedoing and sinking him instead, which is also the first (and only) instance of a submarine sinking another submarine while both were submerged during WWII

Excellent documentary about U-864 and its sinking by HMS Venturer.

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=juXa6sLbMTI