After playing both type for about a year each I seem to prefer the VII's when all the cards are down. More agility, smaller sonar signature, higer draft to get into any harbor with ease and their quick dive times just feel better for me. Some of my most memorable patrols were on a IXB or IXD2 decimating convoys with the enormous torpedo load. The Med is probably my favorite theatre to hunt/patrol in. The larger boats can do well, with the gratitus amount of escorts (even for a puny tramp steamer) can make life difficult with the larger boat to evade their sonar.
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Originally Posted by KeptinCranky
So don't go for the paukenschlag action, or use a Milchcow along the way to get your trusty type VII to the US coast, would be a shame not to have those extra eels for the unprotected and unsuspecting merchies though.
and yes it does take a godawful long time to get there.... 
Also as a VII skipper you get to see places where it would be inavisable at best to take a type IX like the st. George's channel or AM36  |
With the right speed and supply ships you can pretty much go anywhere with a VII, just takes a LOT longer to get there travelling so slow. While the Belchen ship is still at sea I like to hit AN 16 or AN 38 and then head to Halifax with a full load, then hit the same two places on my way back to home port.
CG 96 is my favorite patrol spot, so much there and a 100% guarantee of several hours of action and adrenaline.
