Those were the days, eagerly awaiting Xabba or Ramius's next model, the jokes directed at Stewie over the Collins class (Fearless, and Feriocious,
and going down fast! 
) Then there was the bump for SCXII thread, the original grandfather of the Dead Cat.
It was great to have Cold War era submarines to hunt, it added a whole new dimension to SC and made for a greater width of missions.