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difool2 · 01-21-10, 02:59 PM

I'll hereby champion the 9 lurkers who also chose the XXI: I'm a big student of alternate history, and it is conceivable that Doenitz, if he had read the writing on the wall early enough, could have had something approximating the final design of the XXI by 1943 (i.e. a more or less true submarine and not a submersible). It gives you a reasonable shot at success at a time when other boats were obsolete deathtraps.

01-21-10, 02:59 PM	#10
difool2 Commander Join Date: Apr 2005 Posts: 459 Downloads: 31 Uploads: 0	I'll hereby champion the 9 lurkers who also chose the XXI: I'm a big student of alternate history, and it is conceivable that Doenitz, if he had read the writing on the wall early enough, could have had something approximating the final design of the XXI by 1943 (i.e. a more or less true submarine and not a submersible). It gives you a reasonable shot at success at a time when other boats were obsolete deathtraps.