SH needs to stay in the pre-45 era. The only other decent idea is a WWI boat, which would probably be pretty fun, esp. if the game modeled massive hits for not following cruiser rules at certain times, and included Q ships and such.
The older boats are just better at simming. I enjoyed playing 688 when it would still work on whatever was the os for the week, but that just wasn't as much fun as watching ships through a periscope and shooting torpedoes at it. Watching the sonar fall on 688 isn't as much fun as listening to headphones on a creaky old type II.
The new boats are a different genre than the Silent Hunter series. The only thing that we really are missing is a DC 2, which is not something that I am keeping my fingers crossed about. A new DC would stike me as something for a real niche gamer crowd, unless it had neat stuff like shore bombardments and chasing ghouls around the deck with a shot gun....
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