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bobwill · 04-24-07, 07:01 PM

Personally, I like to start out primitive.
So for me, I like the Porpoise and the S-class; however, the game gives kind of a false sense of decency to those classes. I mean, there was an S boat that sank in the Patuxant River in Maryland for crying out loud; and the TDC that you see in the game wasn't introduced until the Tambor class, and even the Porpoise was considered to have unreliable engines by the time the war started.
I just like to start out with the crappy boats because I think it makes you appreciate the ability to fire off 10 torpedoes, and detect enemy ships and airplanes with RADAR and dive to a 60 foot periscope depth all that much more when you do get them.

04-24-07, 07:01 PM	#11
bobwill Nub Join Date: Apr 2007 Posts: 3 Downloads: 0 Uploads: 0	Personally, I like to start out primitive. So for me, I like the Porpoise and the S-class; however, the game gives kind of a false sense of decency to those classes. I mean, there was an S boat that sank in the Patuxant River in Maryland for crying out loud; and the TDC that you see in the game wasn't introduced until the Tambor class, and even the Porpoise was considered to have unreliable engines by the time the war started. I just like to start out with the crappy boats because I think it makes you appreciate the ability to fire off 10 torpedoes, and detect enemy ships and airplanes with RADAR and dive to a 60 foot periscope depth all that much more when you do get them.