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f4wildweasel · 06-30-11, 07:29 PM

I usually grab new ones when they're offered. Mainly because when I start I pick an S-boat thinking ""yeah I'm hardcore who needs thermal layers or stern tubes?" and then after a couple patrols I'm thinking "dear god get me OUT of this deathtrap!"
Once I tried to attack the Borneo invasion fleet with an S-boat. They hit me with active sonar and it was too shallow for a crash dive. After a couple DC passes, I get hit with one on the stern and it blows off my rudder. So I realized that, if somehow I survive this, my only option will be to run aground in Brunei. A second barrage of DCs across my boat's midsection answered that for me...

As for the U-boat campaign... I really like those twin 37mm AA guns on the IX, so I usually keep it. I went for the Walther boat once, and it was fun and all, but I still liked the IX a bit more.

06-30-11, 07:29 PM	#14
f4wildweasel Seaman Join Date: May 2010 Posts: 40 Downloads: 48 Uploads: 0	I usually grab new ones when they're offered. Mainly because when I start I pick an S-boat thinking ""yeah I'm hardcore who needs thermal layers or stern tubes?" and then after a couple patrols I'm thinking "dear god get me OUT of this deathtrap!" Once I tried to attack the Borneo invasion fleet with an S-boat. They hit me with active sonar and it was too shallow for a crash dive. After a couple DC passes, I get hit with one on the stern and it blows off my rudder. So I realized that, if somehow I survive this, my only option will be to run aground in Brunei. A second barrage of DCs across my boat's midsection answered that for me... As for the U-boat campaign... I really like those twin 37mm AA guns on the IX, so I usually keep it. I went for the Walther boat once, and it was fun and all, but I still liked the IX a bit more.