[REQ] Net cutter

[lutzow]

Is this possible to make a NET CUTTER for type VIIC ?
Like U-96 has?

[Carotio]

Forgive my negative answer, but in order to make such a mod worth while, the subnet should be destructible, which it isn't at the moment AFAIK...
And if a u-boat started to destroy the subnet, it would probably make a lot of noice and thus alarm the surrounding guardian ships to come attack you.
Just my humble thoughts...

[gimpy117]

go around....

[mrbeast]

Does the net/cable cutter on the TypeVIIB actually work or is it just a graphical enhancement? If its just graphics it surely couldn't be too hard to add to a TypeVIIC skin?

[Myxale]

Originally Posted by mrbeast

Does the net/cable cutter on the TypeVIIB actually work or is it just a graphical enhancement? If its just graphics it surely couldn't be too hard to add to a TypeVIIC skin?

Just Eye-candy.:hmm:
And a placement on a generic Type VII C would require a new model.

[lutzow]

Yes - i wan't just eye candy - to hell with cutting the nets!!! - in GWX they can be easily avoided by sub and even by torpedos.
I like this sharp addiction on bow VIIB type and i will be glad when
i see the one on type VIIC.
BTW - how that can cut steel nets?

Tomi has make his type VIID - he created new tower for this mod.
Cobalt makes his canisters on type VIIC/42 and he changes a bow for this type.
Racerboy makes masts with flags and pennants on periscope.
So - i think that net cutter can be also added.

[Hitman]

Yes - i wan't just eye candy - to hell with cutting the nets!!! - in GWX they can be easily avoided by sub and even by torpedos.
I like this sharp addiction on bow VIIB type and i will be glad when
i see the one on type VIIC.
BTW - how that can cut steel nets?

It was historically added in the early versions of the Type VIIC, and yes that thing could cut nets. Consider that it was sharp and attached to a 700 ton weighing U-Boat with propulsion capabilities, that not all nets were done out of steel (Fishing nets were used until steel nets were available and they certainly could jam a U-Boat's diving planes or screw), and that it wasn't in fact meant to be an offensive tool (To cut nets and penetrate in harbours) but rather a help to free itself from defending nets. Of course the diving planes could get stuck with the net, but altogether it wasn't a mad idea, and some U-Boats in WW1 managed to escape thanks to them. In WW2 however U-Boats tended to operate in the free ocean and as such the net-cutters became just a useless tool.