In GWX how to get a XXI Boat
 

Looking for info on how to edit the GWX files so that I may obtain a XXI boat in 1939, I have tried editing the Basic.CFG files but without any success so far, are there other files I have to edit as well to make this happen?

I know this is a total cheat, but it is my game, so please save the speach ok, thanks.

Cant remember off hand but there have been about half a dozen requests for this
Sure the search function will give you your answers

tried that but theres about 15 pages of listings, nothing easy to spot.

As BBW said if you use the search function you will find this thread http://www.subsim.com/radioroom/show...highlight=1939 ;)

hope it helps:D

Much!!, Thanks.

New Sub
 

Are you using Commander? I belive it lets you update. I am too new to run a row boat rather then the VIIC that I gave myself.

A XXI in 1939 ? OMFG...
How about a Los Angeles or an Akula ??:D

Not the Akula:o That will be cheating;) :p :rotfl: :rotfl: :rotfl:

OK let's go for a Victor then..:D

I will change it to have XXI boat in summer/autumm 1944 :rock:

Doenitz himself allow me to take the first prototipe for testing porpouses :rotfl:

You can get it close to then anyway
Picked one up from the shop yesterday - 21/08/44

Actually, that wouldn't be *TOTALLY* out of the question. The British R Class boats of WWI (http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/British_R_class_submarine) had performance that was between the specs of the Type XXIII and the XXI:

9.5 knots surfaced, 14 knots submerged, with 6 bow tubes.

So, the technology was there. All it required was a little imagination on the part of the Kriegsmarine to understand that a submarine with a high underwater speed had tactical advantages, or at the very least was a more survivable boat in combat.

Having said that, even the British didn't recognize what they had - they scrapped almost all of them in the 1920's, and the last one in 1934.

So, if someone wants to try a Type XXI in 1939, I don't fret about it - it could have happened, if the Germans weren't stuck in a WWI mentality as far as U-boats were concerned.

I don't care either, was just joking... each one plays the game as he wants...
Thinking of it, Mk 48 Havcaps and Harpoons would make life easier in the late war...:D

Not really actually. No matter how many Harpoons you carry there will always be a few more Destroyers around to sink you in 1944-45:nope: They are just so many it's impossible to survive:cry:

At least you could operate from a safe standoff distance...:D

PS : I am in the Med in 42 and I can't already find one single merchant not having a DD escort...