Type XXI operational area and Type VIIc vs Type VIIb
 

2 questions

1. GWX assigns 11th flotilla to the UK's eastcoast, but I somehow think this is not realistic for the type XXI, which has a range of 11,000 miles. You can get there on flank speed. What would be a more realistic area, is some information about the plans for XXI avaiable?

2. Type VIIc vs Type VIIb - why was VIIc more popular? Was it cheaper to build - it is slower underwater, less underwater range and the only thing it does better is crashdive.

Lible

1. There were a good number of Type XXIs commissioned during 1945 that were under going workup and trials; however, only two XXIs became fully operational "frontboats" during late April and early May 1945. Thus, with the war ending on or about May 5, 1945, there was not much time for operational patrols far from Norway and they sank no allied ships. One of the more famous u-boat commanders (Kcapt. Shnee, I believe?) came upon a British taskforce in the North Sea just after receiving Donetz's surrender order. However, he could not pass up the opportunity to make a trial attack on this cruiser task force which he did in perfect secrecy. Upon docking in Noway, he just happened to be next to the very same cruiser that he could have so easily sunk it the North Sea. The British could not believe his story until they compared logs and realized they were in the same area at the very same time.

2. The Type VII u-boat was produced as the Type VII (sometimes referred to as the VIIA), Type VIIB, Type VIIC and Type VIIC/41. There was also to be a Type VIIC/42 but it was never produced. While the game might not mod much difference between the Type VIIs, there was diffinetly an improvment made between each of these models in real life.

I knew everything you told about the XXIs and I also found something about the operational area. "The destination for that patrol was to be the Caribbean, where the boat would be tested under all conditions" (U-2511)


And about the second one - I think it's pretty logical there were very noticeable differences between all these. And you didn't mention the minelayer type VIId :).

Thanks anyway for answering.

The VIID was based on the VIIC They were effectively the same boat, just they had different superstructures.

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Or the VIIF
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Torpedo transport - only 4 made
Only 6 of the VIID
10 VIIA
24 VIIB
568 VIIC
91 VIIC\41
And no VIIC\42


There is a WIP VIID model around and a playable VIIC\41 model too