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Originally Posted by BettingUrlife
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Originally Posted by Immelman
It only takes about an hour and if you are worried about airplanes do it at night.
As for not being worth it I guess you never took an IX boat accross the Atlantic. When you meet those unescorted tankers across your bow trust me you will have a different opinion of external torpedoes.
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I would agree with you Immelman, but I think U-bones, by the tone of his post, plays a historically acurate game which is rather different to you and I. |
Well if it wasn't historic to have external tubes why did they include them in the sim? :hmm: The real boats, at least the type IX did use them as in the remote areas they operated in, it was not a huge risk to heave to during good weather and bring the torps below. I "think" a lot of boats stopped carrying them later in the war just because they were too risky to bring below. Another thing to consider is refueling and especially taking on torpedos from a milch cow would have been just as risky if not more so. Fortunately in the game we never have to worry about being attacked from air or sea when we meet up with resupply u-boats. In fact little did the KM know it was actually more risky as the Allies through ULTRA cracks eventually found and sunk all the milch cows.