S-Class Sub To Be Included After All
 

The Dev team for SHIV has just announced on the official SHIII forum that they have decided to include the S Class sub in SHIV after all. However, they will not include the Narwhal class but I do understand their reasons behind that decision.:yep:

WOOHOO!!

I can understand about the three big boats. I would love to see them but they really didn't do much in the way of war patrols.

S-boat out of Cavite? WOOHOO!!!

Good call, Ubi'. The Type II, er, S-Class is a must:up:.

This makes me grin. Like :D this. :up:

I always liked the S-boats for some unknown reason.

The pig boat is In!:up::D:D:rock:

Will be great to start a campain with them! I wonder if I'll be able to be the S-44 when she sank a japanese cruiser!

Thankyou Devs!:yep:

I'm sure we'll be able to engage the enemy. That's why they have us there.:up: :rotfl:

To me this is a sign of that elusive player influence - it may not be as big as the dynamic campaign in SHIII, but it's great to hear that the devs listened about this one :D

Those old pig boats did good service
 

I'm amazed that some of these old, really WW1 boats all built before 1925, made as many as 7 war patrols and continued in combat till early 1944 before being withdrawn to training. It's shows how weak the force was in the first 2 years of the war, and how grim the situation, that these old boats stayed in the front line so long. Well done.

I wonder how long I can survive in one?:ping:

Why does the Narwhal class not fit into the gameplay (as the devs put it)?
:confused:

You can't keep an old antique down. :up:

They didn't have that greater impact on the japanese, I don't think they sank any shipping.

Perhaps not a huge impact but they definitely sank some Japanese shipping.

http://uboat.net/allies/warships/ship/2957.html
http://uboat.net/allies/warships/ship/2956.html
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Excellent. I'm a big fan of S-44 personally, since she got the USN a little revenge after Savo Island - pretty amazing that a few dozen men on a single old sub did what about half a dozen heavy cruisers failed to do.

More importantly, it will be nice to have the "Type II-style" gaming experience live on with this class of sub. IMO it's a nice contrast in comparison to the big, modern fleet boats.

Now to complete the S-Boat experience we'll just have to play the sim locked in a unventilated room on a 90 degree day with 100 percent humidity. Perferably while not having bathed in a while. Mmmm. Somebody pass the lukewarm lemonade. :cool:

This is Great news!!! Thank You for the info!

:rock:

Pity about the Narwhal. Between her and her sister sub (USS Nautilus) they did 29 war patrols & credited with sinking 13 Japanese ships for a total of 35,000 tons.
It must be said however that most of the time she was used in covert missions, landing US troops on various islands and conducting resupply runs for guerilla forces fighting the Japanese.

A concise history of the USS Narwhal can be here

Wait for the summer of 2007... good chance you'll get your wish!

Great news btw! Thanks to the dev team.

Narwhal and the Kaga
 

Originally, the Narwhal was credited with sinking the carrier Soryu at Midway, but credit was withdrawn around 1955 when eyewitness accounts indicated that the torpedoed carrier was actually the Kaga and that the only hit was actually a dud.

This is good only if most of the torpedoes don't work, the engines randomly shut down, and various leaks spring up anytime you are deeper than 150 feet....

lol!

Random breakdowns are all good, as long as people who don't like them can shut them off.

Looking forward to playing with this sub.