Again could you please point out where the screenshot is at? I cannot find it anywhere.

Always ahead of your time eeh?! :haha:

http://www.rheinmetall-detec.de/index.php?fid=2675&qid=&qpage=0〈=3&query=monarc

Cheers Michael

LOL! You got to be ****ting me!

Ok its official ! They screwed up the VIIB model in sh-5 in the final version. Check the 3rd post of this thread. http://www.subsim.com/radioroom/show...162521&page=17
I mean so much material of the VIIB literaly a click away on the internet and they give the VIIB the wrong conning tower.
How could they make a mistake like this?

*Sigh* Unless the developers are sub fans, I doubt they even noticed, or cared. It's a pity, but no different to any other developer producing so called "historical" games. As you said, there's enough information available, even if they don't want to buy the books; the internet is literally brimming with info on these things.

While it is a small detail, it is one which is readily apparent to anyone who knows anything about U-boats. Another reason why I suspect this title has been developed with the casual gamer in mind.

I'm not really seeing the screw up here. Here's a comparison of the shots that CCIP made in game with a retail copy and historic shots of U-48, a VIIB boat:

http://www.kylania.com/sh3/u48tn.jpg

Looking at Anatomy of the Ship Type VII U-boat, it appears that the splash shield is the later type found on the C and the exhaust fairing on the stbd side isn't there, so it's likely the same model. Honestly, they're so similar, the devs probably just saved the man hours for use elsewhere. 95% of the buyers wouldn't notice it anyway.

do you even know the visual differences of the VIIB and VIIC? If not check this to find out.

http://www.hq.wwiionline.com/profiles/u_boat4.jpg

http://www.german-uboats.com/Uboat%20Photos/U53-2.jpg

Now the VIIC conning tower.
http://hsfeatures.com/features04/images/u552dj_32.jpg

I mean is it so hard to see the difference? They did it right in sh-3 and in sh-5 they get it wrong?

Both U-53 (the one you posted) and U-48 (the one I posted) are VIIB boats. I guess there were multiple conning towers for VIIBs and Ubisoft picked one to use?

Oscar19681 is correct. Look at the splash shield, the exhaust fairing, and the rear profile of the flak platform. It is a VIIC conning tower.

Where I think he's incorrect is in thinking that it was an oversight. It was almost certainly a case of "close enough, we ain't got time for it". It'll likely be fixed in a patch or failing that, will be modded.

Correction: The U-boat posted in this shot is actually the U-52:up:

http://www.german-uboats.com/Uboat%20Photos/U53-2.jpg

The type VIIB had numerous tower types during the war, the above configuration is most likely from 1940 to 1941, after which the towers were replaced with VIIC style towers and most of the boats allocated to training flotillas.

I think you are confused with the fact that there were VIIC,s with wirecutters. I never seen any evidence that there were ever VIIB,s with a VIIC tower.

I doubt that very much. If some of the posters on here can't recognise the difference between a VIIB and VIIC, then you can bet your backside Ubi certainly will not. In any case, now that the model is done, they won't go back and change it to satisfy those in the know (probably a minority). It will have to be modded, assuming the game is moddable in the first place.

By VIIC-style towers I meant that there was a down swept windbreaker at the top. U-52 in this case had such a modification done to her after becoming a training boat:

http://triton.imageshack.us/Himg207/...=640&ysize=480http://triton.imageshack.us/Himg11/s...=640&ysize=480
http://triton.imageshack.us/Himg8/sc...=640&ysize=480

I wasent talking the swept windbreakers but about the different shape of the tower itself