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Old 04-25-07, 12:11 AM   #9
XanderF
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Well, my fav skin in the game (Venatore's Type IIA) is a Type II, so...they get a lot of action from me.

Plus, the smaller crew is a ****LOAD easier to manage. No, seriously. Keeping all those Type IX guys napped up really pisses me off some times! Dudes don't know when to hit the sack!

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I'm not convinced the claim to 6 eels for this class boat is accurate.
I think I read somewhere that in real life, type II boats carried 5 torpedoes, 3 in the tubes and 2 reloads. I suppose there simply wasn't space to store them!
Mixed opinions on this.

"Official" load appears to be 3 in the tubes, and 2 reloads on racks - although some Type IIs were apparently built with only 2 tubes, depended on the yard. Anyway, lore tells us that some captains took a 6th torpedo, and strapped it to the deck in the torpedo room in place of extra stores (short patrols, anyway) for opportunity use.
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