One more thing I thought of... the VIIB has less upgrades in terms of AA firepower, which is useless to me anyway. I don't stay on the surface and gun it out with aircraft, so I don't need a quad flak or the heavier flaks that the VIIC can get. Also, the VIIB offers a second flak tower sometime in '42 for a second smaller AA gun... which is about all I need, at most. If the VIIC's historical slightly longer range is not modeled, it doesn't make sense to me to get a VIIC. I save my renown for a type XXI in March, '44. Since those bad boys are 20,000 points, I save all I can, because later in the war... late '42 on... I don't sink a whole lot, it's more of a survival game. Can I get to my patrol station and home alive? So, I don't use renown on extra AA towers and guns and supercharged diesels... I'm thinking long-term and saving for the XXI. Some may spend their renown on those things.... I guess mine is just a different way of looking at things. As far as I know, a VIIB CAN be equipped with a snorkel later in the war, correct?
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