As much as i enjoy type 9's......

[Ducimus]

I have to admit, the IXD2 is just too damn big. I never realized how big they really are until one day.. a long time ago, i got blasted to the surface and subsquently rammed.


Note size compared to the DE.


But thats not the boat that i just lost. Acutally, come to think of it, i havent had a IXD2 career where i DIDN'T lose the boat. :hmm:

My latest loss... well... maybe i should look into the 2nd patrol club.

All things considered, i think i did exceptionally well given the year, boat, and ASW i encountered.


Here is the ONLY single merchant i sank:

18 Jan 1943
0710 ET 82 Ship sunk! C2 Cargo, 4864 tons

Here is the attack on the first convoy i encountered

07 Feb 1943
0138 GR 58 Ship sunk! Bogue Class, 15390 tons
0312 GR 58 Ship sunk! Tramp Steamer, 1969 tons
0328 GR 58 Ship sunk! River Class , 1350 tons
0406 GR 58 Ship sunk! River Class , 1350 tons

yeah, soo... well, that escort carrier was ticking me off. I saw him, and he' was all i focused on. The first DE happen to get in line with my aft tube before i went deep and received a healthy depth charging. The last DE came back sniffing around for me after i finished off the tramp steamer. Surpised the hell out of me too, he crawled right up my baffels. Popped the scope and there he was.



Heres the results of an attack on a second convoy i encountered, south of madagascar, NE of Durban.

17 Feb 1943
0445 87 Ship sunk! Troop Transport, 8279 tons
0630 87 Ship sunk! Heavy Transport, 7521 tons

Again, a healthy depth charging. I honestly didnt think id survive but i did.


On 22 Feb 1943, i encountered a 3rd convoy and prosocuted another attack. As if i hadnt learned my lesson from the two previous "payoffs" i recieved. Two magnetic shots under the keel of a T3 tanker. Both of which hit. Never saw him sink though. Shot two more at a T2 tanker. One prematured, the other missed.

This depth charging was even longer, and with the uboat twice damaged by near hits, i was forced to go shallower and shallower. When i couldnt go deeper then 170 meters without being crushed i knew my chances of surviving was 10 to 1. After the yet another masssive bombadment (i honestly thought theyd run out of depth charges soon) i recieved a hit which forced me to blow ballast. 10 seconds later, another one landed right forward of the conning tower, and that was all she wrote.


3 convoy attacks, 3 depth charging's, and all with the exterior camera off i might add. After the second convoy attack i was seriously consiering avoiding convoys. Of course when i made contact with that 3rd convoy i didnt think twice about it and attacked. Obviously i shouldnt have.

[Castout]

I hate type IXs they're big hence easy to detect via active sonar and they turn veryyyy slo o o o o o o o o o o o o o o ow. Plus their underwater performance is poor(poor speed). And yeah almost forgot their dive time is miserable and they got noticed a lot further by her enemy hence you need to give longer underwater chase.

No wonder about your career results with type IXs

I prefer type VIIB/C they're fast)even faster with upgraded engine albeit with the cost in range), small enough to avoid active sonar(especially with sonar coating) and they're agile(fast dive time, turn faster). It's perfect

[Morts]

Originally Posted by Castout

I hate type IXs they're big hence easy to detect via active sonar and they turn veryyyy slo o o o o o o o o o o o o o o ow. Plus their underwater performance is poor(poor speed). And yeah almost forgot their dive time is miserable and they got noticed a lot further by her enemy hence you need to give longer underwater chase.

No wonder about your career results with type IXs

you VII fanatic


if you know how to handle a type IX boat
its a piece of cake to get through depth charge attacks or plane attacks or whatever
but if you dont know how to handle the boat (seems like you dont)
you're going straight to the bottom

and ducimus
IX types werent s'posed to attack convoys but act alone

[Mooncatt]

yeah i dont like the bigger boats either big margin of error for the dds when they dc you. i go as far as a IXB no bigger

[mookiemookie]

I've slowly turned into a Type IX convert myself. If you love attacking convoys in the same few grid squares in the North Atlantic, by all means go for your Type VII. If you like to be sent who knows where and have new adventures in exotic locales, then the Type IX is for you.

I do notice the longer dive times on the Type IX's, but I never noticed the slower underwater speed. A half a knot on top underwater speed doesn't really matter to me, as I never really use top speed underwater anyways.

[stabiz]

I have been playing online alot lately, and my mate always use the IXD2 (although I told him he was a tonnage-tosser), so I started using it sometimes because he was getting all the tonnage before I could reload.

I dont like it, its too easy to mess up late war convoys when two(or more) boats are pumped full of Falke`s. And - as Ducimus says - its so big! I actually think an oil rig could dive faster!

Next time I`m gonna insist on using VII`s with only one rear Falke.

I like the IX-class, dont get me wrong, but when the kitchen gets hot nothing beats the Formula 1-agility of the VII!

PS: I must admit I grinned when we attacked a Task Force last night. He killed off a few DD`s and a Carrier with his 5000 Falke`s, and subsequently got blown to bits while trying to crash dive at 1mph. I got away in My VIIC with approx the same tonnage after a while, but alive.

[Crazy Ian]

Originally Posted by Ducimus

I have to admit, the IXD2 is just too damn big. I never realized how big they really are until one day.. a long time ago, i got blasted to the surface and subsquently rammed.

*Adopts best Alec Guinness voice* "Thats no moon... thats a space station."

I'll have to give a career a go with one of those once I get this Grey Wolves installed. COME ON 56K!

[Kpt. Kozloff]

[QUOTE]

Originally Posted by Crazy Ian

*Adopts best Alec Guinness voice* "Thats no moon... thats a space station."

:rotfl: :rotfl: :rotfl:
Nice one!

[Rykaird]

Originally Posted by Crazy Ian

*Adopts best Alec Guinness voice* "Thats no moon... thats a space station."

Chief Brody: "I think we're going to need a bigger boat!"

Long pause . . .

"Well, jeez, not THAT big."

[Khourieat]

I thought I'd be a VIIB person, I liked the dive time, the speed, it worked for me.

I did my first patrol with a IX, got damaged to heck because of it's slowness (1024x TC while going to/from patrol area and ran into warships, got pounded before I could dive, but survived), but I'll be damned if the thing isn't a lucky charm or something...my first patrol, ran into a 14 ship convoy, with a SINGLE V&W escort...took out the escort with gusto, then, well, then it was just like shooting fish in a barrel.

Sadly 4 of those puppies were neutral, but hey, 11 ships in a span of about 30 game hours isn't bad...

I'm somewhere in 1941, and this was somewhere west of England, not too west