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Originally Posted by Paul Riley
It would be great to at least take part in the battles.I think Uboats would have been great support units for regular combat vessels.
Being in the channel during D-Day?,now that would be funny.
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As Sailor Steve related, most of the major German sea operations are scripted into GWX. See the list in the manual. Invasion of Norway, D-day invasion, foray by the battle cruisers Scharnhorst and Gneisenau, Bismarck's maiden voyage, the Channel dash, to name a few. A submarine cannot take part in a land battle, about all a sub can do is attack supply ships and warships going to and from the area of battle.
I know for a fact that the battle for Narvik is very well scripted in GWX. I was lying in wait, submerged in the fjord as the British destroyers where heading to and from Narvik on April 9, 1940.
U-boats were found not to be good support units for regular combat vessels. There underwater speed was way to slow. They had almost no firepower on the surface and were extremely vulnerable. Their strong point was stealth and the wolfpack attack at night. Of course this too diminished with the advent of Huff Duff and radar.