The Type II Club
 

Seems only fair with you guys all discussing the merits of Type VII and IX I should make a special mention for my new fondness for the Dug out canoe. It's complete shoddyness gives it a whole new gaming perspective
(i) Due to very short numbers of eels, you've got to choose your targets wisely
(ii) Further limits on viability of the targets availabe due to range on the surface.. Sometimes you have to spend a good 10 minutes working out if you can intercept them.
(iii) Multiplayer.. nothings more satisfiying than playing as a Type II and scoring more tonnage than your 'arcade' playing mate.. as you stealthily entered the convoy whilst he got all the flak for charging straight in and you nobbled the only two tankers with perfect back breaking shots!

Many more merits to be added soon.. unless someone else wants to add them

Viva Type II!

Jawhol!!!

The "Ducks" are cool... especially in a storm.:arrgh!:

Theres something very quaint about them. Its also a nice brief patrol. Sometimes I don't feel like being out there for a month and a half.:doh:

I'd have to agree with the comments so far,there really is something special about being in a Type II,being there from the begining and taking your chances with the obvious limits you have,kinda makes it all the more raw edged.:yep:

Yup, they're fun, right down to the little galley stove in the back of the control room.

The two most major merits I can think ok is Harbour raiding, my brother got a IID and was forver sneaking into british ports shooting stuff up.

The other thing I note about them, is their acoustic profile, they are difficult to get a concrete lock on due to their small size and the depth charges miss.

One other advantage of the IID is the speed it crash dives at. It can be under in a blink of an eye.

The IIA is definately the most challenging U-Boat to play but I do like the type II's.

What would be really interesting is if someone would make a Type XXIII skin, and diddle the parameters on the Type IIA or D to make it into a Type XXIII.

You only have two shots, but you can travel at 12+ knots underwater, and a crash dive time of only 9 seconds. When you can pull the plug that fast, you don't need AA guns.

I'm extremely tempted to have a career in the black sea in a Type II

Type II, Bah no room to fart in them barrels. :p

I have done the Black Sea in a VII & IX. :yep:

I love the IID. Its a cracking boat.

I like the type II most because it prevent the overconfident idiocy you get with a big deckgun and oodles of flak, no way am i going to take on an armed trawler or flower corvette on the surface in a type II, I did that regularly in my 7s and 9s (admittedly in vanilla sh3, in GWX I got sunk so fast I actually felt embarassed for a day, even though there were no witnesses :oops:)

Does Kpt. Lehmann think his canoe is a surfboard? :rotfl:Hang Ten for the Vaterland! :sunny:

Using GWX, I've completed two full careers in a Type II, from 1939 until 1945.

Working on the third.

I got blown out the sea in one of them tubs as we came up for emergency fresh air and why? Bernard had been farting after eating beans and eggs. :lol:

My last career I assigned myself to AO95 (I think that was it) and sat off Gdansk taking pot-shots at fleeing Polish merchants. After that I accepted my North Sea assignments as they were given.

One of my captains is commanding the U-24 in the 30´th Flot. in Constanza.
April -43 and the boat has got the new conning tower with an extra flak pos.
She really looks good with two flak zwillings:up:

Your welcome to help in the fight against the Russians, Pen:yep: