i think this must be a random thing, my base is Lorient and alot of the time i start in an open dock but i have started in a u-boat pen before, although it might have been a base i stopped at that wasn't my home base ..

Some bases are scripted to start in pens, some aren't.

I never allow tankers to wear my pijamas. :D

I bet yiu say that to all the boys

http://img171.imageshack.us/img171/2...rsch07pr71.gif

Part of the problem is that the game has all the u-boat pens finished at the start of the game, and the first ones weren't ready until late 1941, and the one at Kiel wasn't finished until 1944. Starting in the pen at the beginning of any base is totally unhistorical. On the other hand there is nothing in the game that allows for their changing status over the years.

Aces Super Pens mod is fun in that the Kiel pen is just a framework. I don't know if it gets finished later, but it's pretty cool seeing it.

http://i14.photobucket.com/albums/a3...162531_796.jpg

http://i14.photobucket.com/albums/a3...162416_843.jpg

On the other hand SH5 has you start in the pen at Wilhelmshaven, which never had one at all.

Well...it sounds like one of those things you want...but find out the price is too high? ;)

I'll live with my starting positions at various bases rather than really screw things up.