Favorite sub
 

IXD2

I start with Type VIIB then IXB, IXC and my favorite IXD2.

I use these mods: U-guns V4, ASN Torpedoes, and a fast sub mod. The IXD2 does 40 knots on the surface, 30 submerged. KILLER!!! :yeah:

I haven't played in a while.

What I used to do was start in a VIIB or a II and I'd upgrade to the VIIC and sometimes the IX if I live that long.

Usually I die in late 42 and early 43. :03:

No Type XXI or XXIII I notice.

I love my trusty IID!

I'm saving up renown to get a VII (and I'm nearly there too), but for now I'm happy with what i've got. Be nice if I could strap a couple of external firing tubes on though.:arrgh!:

Most used? Type VII. My favorite, though is the type IX.

The XXI, as advanced as it was, just doesn't appeal to me. A footnote in WWII history yet changed the face of sub design. That should appeal, but strangely, it doesn't. Weird.

I think of tech that *almost* changed the face of WWII. The XXI, the V2, the ME262, the German jet-powered flying wing (can't recall the name), the Stg. 44, German nuclear weapons research...can you imagine if those were all front line equipment in '39?

A handful of years then may have seen a *much* different geo-political environment now. Most folks in the general populace really don't know how *close* the WWII arms race was...

Type IX all the way!:up:

Got to visit the U-505 in Chicago. It was like a trip to Mecca for this old boy. :Kaleun_Salivating:

David I

It was the same for me 20 years ago.

I ended up voting for the IX, since lately I've been getting into being a pirate in the Caribbean, but I like the VII just as much.

Just can't get away from a type VII B or C. :arrgh!:

I've got SHIII, but I haven't played it yet.

I think I'll use the IX the most. It has good range, firepower and spare torpedoes.

IXD2. :DL

The XXI was supposed to be equipped with a rear tube for Ursel supercavitating rocket (think Shkval with lower performances) for use as anti-destroyer weapon. As with many of the more fanciful projects in late war nazi germany it did not come to fruition and the space was used to fit a lathe and other machine tools for underway repairs. The B variant of the XXI was supposed to carry six rear firing torpedo tubes in addition to the forward ones, but this came at the expense of all internal reloads. The C would have carried 18 torpedo tubes (six forward, twelve angled aft) but in addition to internal realods battery capacity would have been reduced as well.

The V2 was a technical marvel but essentially a waste of resources. The british were about on par with the germans on jet research, so whatever the germans did, they could more or less match. Main problem with subs in 1939 was not performance but lack of numbers: there were about sixty boats while prewar estimates calculated that about a thousands were needed to achieve decisive results. Since a XXI required much more scarce resources (copper, lead, rubber etc) than a VII or an IX that means fewer subs or fewer resources for something else. The XXI begins to be really attractive only once radar becomes a standard fit for ASW assets, which in 1939 was not yet the case IIRC.

Hi friends of subsim simulation :salute:

I like my 7er boat, but only my IXD2 its the way to fu american coverments in
this time! :D

Have a nice day my friends, and ever "eine Handbreit Wasser unter dem Kiel". :yeah:

Greetings from switzerland :salute:

UhU