July 1944
I'm on my 4th voyage in my IXD2, It has its advantages and disavantages. Its biggest advantage over its predecessors is the distance it can cover without refueling. Even holding 24 eels you will run out of torpedos long before you run out of fuel unless you run around at flank speed all the time. Setting speed to 9 knots manualy will result in over 50,000 km's before relueling is necessary. In my 1st voyage i went to cancun and returned without ever receiving a fuel is down to 50% message. the last 2 missions i;ve been on i've run out of torps long before i've made it to my destination and personally i'd rather sail back to base for a reload rather than stop at 1 of the milk cows just to loaded up with T1 torps.
The subs biggest disadvantage is its diving time, it takes this beast awhile to change its dive plaine when your radar detection picks up a plane you better goose it to dive.
Overall i was disappointed with this boat and will save my duckets for the XXI the next time i live this long in a career. I was disappointed with its diving depth or lack of it. I took my ship to 252 meters and started getting depth related hull damage. Hull integraty had dropped below 85% before it finally quit when the boat had raised to 224 meters. I was happy i found that out on my own testing rather than when i was being shaken not stirred by DC's
The boat does have good top speed tho as i am able to hit 21knots in good weather.
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