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Oesten · 08-06-05, 10:26 AM

I'm not using SH3 Commander, but manually made sure I was using boats with appropriate numbers.

I looked through uboat.net and picked boats that were:

a) In the right flotilla, and not used by any of the historical U-boat aces. I wanted a boat that WASN'T famous historically. That way, I make my own legend for this boat, not recreating a historical career. Since the scores of all the major U-boat aces are tracked in SH3 and your own tonnage scores listed with theirs, I wanted to make sure that I wasn't using a boat that an ace was using.

b) had sunk very few ships at all. Normally that meant picking boats that had been sunk historically on their first few patrols, before achieving anything much.

c) where possible, had been commissioned shortly before I take them over in SH3.

So, for my Type II in 1939, I picked U-15. (I'm using RuB 1.42, which turns the Type IIA's into Type IIB's.) Staying with U-15 until late August 1940, when I'll switch to a new Type IXB, U-104. Historically, U-104 was commissioned on 19 August 1940 and sailed on her first patrol on 12 November 1940. She was sunk on that patrol after sinking only one ship.

But hopefully she won't be sunk that quickly under my command, instead she'll be famous!

08-06-05, 10:26 AM	#10
Oesten A-ganger Join Date: Nov 2002 Posts: 79 Downloads: 11 Uploads: 0	I'm not using SH3 Commander, but manually made sure I was using boats with appropriate numbers. I looked through uboat.net and picked boats that were: a) In the right flotilla, and not used by any of the historical U-boat aces. I wanted a boat that WASN'T famous historically. That way, I make my own legend for this boat, not recreating a historical career. Since the scores of all the major U-boat aces are tracked in SH3 and your own tonnage scores listed with theirs, I wanted to make sure that I wasn't using a boat that an ace was using. b) had sunk very few ships at all. Normally that meant picking boats that had been sunk historically on their first few patrols, before achieving anything much. c) where possible, had been commissioned shortly before I take them over in SH3. So, for my Type II in 1939, I picked U-15. (I'm using RuB 1.42, which turns the Type IIA's into Type IIB's.) Staying with U-15 until late August 1940, when I'll switch to a new Type IXB, U-104. Historically, U-104 was commissioned on 19 August 1940 and sailed on her first patrol on 12 November 1940. She was sunk on that patrol after sinking only one ship. But hopefully she won't be sunk that quickly under my command, instead she'll be famous!