[AG124]

Well, in terms of SHIII, the biggest problem with not having AI subs is that without them, there can be no wolfpacks and true mik cows. (There is a milk cow mod, and it is brilliant, but it's just not the same as actually having a real AI unit).

In SHIV, the previous two issues are not problems - there were no US milk cows and only limited wolfpack activity. However, there were some US wolfpacks, and many Japanese subs were sunk on the surface by US submarines (although only the US sub Corvina was sunk by a Japanese counterpart). I can understand how this would be very important for some players.

Personally, I would like to see AI programmed subs in SHIII (not going to happen now though), but I don't really care that much in SHIV, as I am more interested in sinking surface shipping anyway.