Equipment availability times
 

When are the different subs and upgrades made available?

Currently wondering if i should waste my renown on a type C, or wait for a type IX which i want to try out.

It's Dec 22nd 1941 in my current game, and i believe drumbeat started shortly into 1942, so i'm expecting them about then.

You should be able to get a type IX right now

In game there is a chart.

Think my game's bugged out :/

It's randomly placed some homing torps in my sub, but i've only got the 2 normal ones still available to purchase.

Still can't see any IX subs, only IIA/D and VIIB/C.

Do i have to get the C before more become available? Or can i just hold out?

How come u can get a VIIC/42 in the game when they were never built in the war? The design was dropped in place of the Electroboot was it not?
I think you can get it in Feb 1944,not a bad sub for assisting our Afrika troops.

Yeah I think ur games buggered out mate cause the VII & IX are available at the start of the war,but u need 7500 renown to get the IX
Which flotila are you based at?

ah, i only had 6k, so couldn't see it.

Didn't realise i'd need that much to get one, so was a bit confused.

Also depends on what flotilla you are in

1st flotilla.

Hit the same Clemons destroyer now twice with a homing torp, each time it crashes the game.

On the equipment screen if you click the question mark in the bottom right-hand corner it will bring up a list of all available equipment and when it is available.

The only advantage I see of the VIIC over VIIB is it dives 2 seconds faster. I believe the VIIC also has slightly lower top speeds when submerged and on the surface.

The biggest advantage to the type IX is the large torpedo loadout and the big deck gun. The deck gun is useful until 1941 when merchants start carrying guns of their own. After that, it is hardly worth engaging targets with the deck gun as one single hit from the enemy will take your hull integrity down to the point that you can no longer dive to your maximum, and this will be deadly if you encounter escorts. It's not worth blowing an entire mission over a single kill.

Myself, I go for the Type IX as soon as I can get it and enjoy using that deck gun for all of 1940 to rack up the kills.

Steve

Yeah i'm enjoying the IXC, so many torps. Got 78k on my first run.

Earlier on in SH3, and all of SH5, whenever i get attacked from the air it's just one or two aircraft.

Now however i get attacked suddenly by 20 bombers.

http://i101.photobucket.com/albums/m...OFFENDTHEE.jpg

Happened to me only in LSH-Mod.
10 Short Sunderlands in a row...

If I am not mistaken, the VII flotilla will allow you to get a IX the earliest- (based in Lorient).