This is what I found out. Non-playable subs and ships? What a rip! And this being the Gold Edition does this mean the end of the line for SH5? No more patches?
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The Gold Edition will be available for download only and will contain seven unique submarines and enemy ship skins. The Gold Edition will also include the Silent Hunter 5: Battle of the Atlantic Official Guide containing 110 pages of crew details, submarines, ships and weapons as a pdf on the build.
Includes three famous non-playable historical U-Boats:
- U-99 (type VIIB) – submarine of U-boat ace Otto Kretschmer
- U-30 (type VIIA) – submarine of U-boat ace Fritz Lemp
- U-552 (type VIIC) – submarine of U-boat ace Erich Topp
Includes four famous Allied ships:
- HMS Duke of York (King George V battleship class) – the ship responsible for sinking the German battlecruiser Scharnhorst and carrying Churchill to America in one occasion.
- HMS Walker (V&W destroyer class) – ship commanded by Donald Macintyre during the battle for convoy HX112 which led to the capture of top U-boat ace Otto Krestschmer (U-99) and death of U-boat ace Joachim Shepke (U-100)
- HMS Stork (Black Swan sloop class) –flagship of the famous commander Walker, leading the 2nd Support Group flotilla assigned to U-boat hunting
- HMS Suffolk (Kent cruiser class) –famous British cruiser involved in the battle of Norway and the sinking of the German battleship Bismarck