Im curious to know when the decsion was made?
Can it be that they really have NO Type 9 and Type 2 model work in there studio at all?
What I dont get is that I'd have though the player vessels would be the one of
first things the artists would concieve, not the last!

I wonder if they have Exterior models of the missing Uboats, just not the full interiors & Conning tower versions?
In which case I'd kind of half expect to see the Type II & Type 9 as NPC models in the Museum or campaign.
The type 9d2 from SH4 was a perfectly good model, why an earth would they not re-use it?
The decion to go Type VII only, must have been taken to avoid an additional two full U-boat interiors.
both this and the missing final two years of the campaign suggests one of two things:
They ran out of
time
or
There were not enough artists or campaign scripters working on the project. (
budget)