Chief Brody: "I think we're going to need a bigger boat!"

Long pause . . .

"Well, jeez, not THAT big."

No spud-peeling for me, I just had a rather interresting date with 2(!) convoys, inbound and outbound north of Ireland, with me in the middle. Bagged me a troop, 2 whalers and 2 large cargo and the undivided attention of 5 escorts ... AND LIVED TO TELL ABOUT IT.

Put that in your type IX and smoke it!:arrgh!:

Ploughing along with my type IXB I hit 3 taskforces sunk 2BB's one DD went on and pilliaged at port and had 1 torpedo spare. How much torpedoes does the IIB and IIC have again? Was it somewhere around 7? Cool you can do 3 round trips with all the torpedoes I have in my sub EG a IXB kapitan can sink 3 times more tonnage then a type 7 captain.

This thread is still alive? Good lord.

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I'm just happy as a coyote that found a fresh gut pile that I finally made it into `41.

The "beef" between IX'ers and VII's is quite up to date! :rotfl:

Got a match :|\\

Yes, very true. But the crew in the II's and VII's become way more experienced due to the experience-earning mechanism in SH3.

I definately think the IX is better in range, payload and therefor overall abillities. But what it so desperately needs is acceleration, turningspeed and divingspeed.

It then comes down to your personal playingstyle. If you are patient prowler, then the IX may well be your boat. But if you are a gung-ho convoy-raider with a semi-deathwish (like myself), than nothing beats a VII (n my humble opinion offcourse).

SOOOOOO not true

Hey you dont need to be a gung ho type to sail in the VII:huh:

I thought I'd be a VIIB person, I liked the dive time, the speed, it worked for me.

I did my first patrol with a IX, got damaged to heck because of it's slowness (1024x TC while going to/from patrol area and ran into warships, got pounded before I could dive, but survived), but I'll be damned if the thing isn't a lucky charm or something...my first patrol, ran into a 14 ship convoy, with a SINGLE V&W escort...took out the escort with gusto, then, well, then it was just like shooting fish in a barrel.

Sadly 4 of those puppies were neutral, but hey, 11 ships in a span of about 30 game hours isn't bad...

I'm somewhere in 1941, and this was somewhere west of England, not too west :arrgh!: