I like U-Boats. I know it might not seem like it for some of my posts in the best front-line sub thread, but I've put in lots of time in U-Boats and Fleet Boats. I like the Fleet Boats better for a laundry list of reasons, but that doesn't mean I don't have a blast in the U-Boat. U-Boats in SH4, where you can save a career with assurance that it will be there when you play again, are just great.
Being a good U-Boat skipper will make you a better Fleet Boat skipper and the other way around too! You learn to think U-Boat and Fleet Boat. You learn to adapt the tactics of one to the other. That was the beginning of the Dick O'Kane attack, a bullschnitzel session about adapting U-Boat Fast-90 technique to Fleet Boats. I spent three months in the U-Boat after the publication of SH4UBM. It was time well-spent.
Just don't make the mistake of a lot of people around here of judging the U-Boat by Fleet Boat standards and saying "this sucks because it doesn't work like that." Well this isn't that, THAT is that. U-Boats and Fleet Boats are different! They should stay that way. SH3 and SH4 are different. They should stay that way.
I highly recommend SH4UBM. And I highly recommend spending some U-Boat time, even if you don't think you're interested. They grow on you.
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