Favorite First Boat

MonTana_Prussian · 04-03-09, 07:25 PM

What is your favorite boat to start your career in? I always take a Salmon or Porpoise,and have had very good luck with both. I tend to keep them for some time,even after being offered a new boat,but eventually trade 'em off for a Gato.

pabbi · 04-03-09, 08:03 PM

I am a bit crazy i allways start with S-Boats

Arclight · 04-03-09, 08:06 PM

I typically start from Pearl in a Porpoise.

Max2147 · 04-03-09, 09:38 PM

Gotta start with the dinky little S-Class. It's such a hopeless piece of junk that you can't help but love it.

You also appreciate the luxuries of a Gato or a Balao a lot more if you start out in an S-Class. Stern tubes! Bigger torpedoes! Enough fuel for months! Radar! Even the Porpoise feels like an awesome boat after you've spent a few patrols in an S-Class.

My favorite campaign (running RSRDC) is starting in Manila in 1941 in an S-Class boat. There's nothing quite like encountering the Japanese invasion fleets for the Philippines with something like 20 destroyer escorts and having to face them in your pitiful little S-Class.

That campaign also does a great job of showing how bad things went early in the war for the Allies. Up at Pearl, you're sort of isolated from the early disasters once the fires from December 7 stop burning. Down in the East Indies you have to keep changing bases because the Japanese keep taking over your old base. You start in Manila, then get chased to Java, then get chased down to Perth.

On the bright side, Perth also puts you close to the best hunting grounds that I've found so far in the game.

Lord Kelvin · 04-03-09, 10:22 PM

I tried starting from Pearl in a Porpoise in a few times, but the short number of tubes always frustrated me so much that I almost always ended up starting a new campaign. And since I've almost always started from Pearl, my only other choices were Tambor and Gar, and I've never been much for starting on the top.

Playing RFB 1.4 with NSM4 now, and I've just discovered the love that is the Sargo. It can't field as much bow firepower as a Tambor, but damned if it can't still perform.

MonTana_Prussian · 04-03-09, 11:46 PM

I have to have stern tubes

And I always start in Manila/Cavite,you're closer to the action early on,and even when Manila falls,Surabaya is close enough as well. nI've started in a salmon a couple of times,maybe I'll have to give the S-Boat a try.

Running 1.4 RFB+RSRDC

04-03-09, 07:25 PM	#1
MonTana_Prussian Ensign Join Date: Apr 2008 Location: Helena,Montana Posts: 234 Downloads: 0 Uploads: 0	Favorite First Boat What is your favorite boat to start your career in? I always take a Salmon or Porpoise,and have had very good luck with both. I tend to keep them for some time,even after being offered a new boat,but eventually trade 'em off for a Gato.

04-03-09, 08:03 PM	#2
pabbi Subsim Overlord Join Date: Jul 2007 Location: On the top of the world Posts: 215 Downloads: 455 Uploads: 0	I am a bit crazy i allways start with S-Boats __________________ On the top of the world

04-03-09, 08:06 PM	#3
Arclight Navy Seal Join Date: Jun 2008 Location: Land of windmills, tulips, wooden shoes and cheese. Lots of cheese. Posts: 8,467 Downloads: 53 Uploads: 10	I typically start from Pearl in a Porpoise. __________________ Contritium praecedit superbia.

04-03-09, 09:38 PM	#4
Max2147 Seasoned Skipper Join Date: Feb 2009 Posts: 714 Downloads: 0 Uploads: 0	Gotta start with the dinky little S-Class. It's such a hopeless piece of junk that you can't help but love it. You also appreciate the luxuries of a Gato or a Balao a lot more if you start out in an S-Class. Stern tubes! Bigger torpedoes! Enough fuel for months! Radar! Even the Porpoise feels like an awesome boat after you've spent a few patrols in an S-Class. My favorite campaign (running RSRDC) is starting in Manila in 1941 in an S-Class boat. There's nothing quite like encountering the Japanese invasion fleets for the Philippines with something like 20 destroyer escorts and having to face them in your pitiful little S-Class. That campaign also does a great job of showing how bad things went early in the war for the Allies. Up at Pearl, you're sort of isolated from the early disasters once the fires from December 7 stop burning. Down in the East Indies you have to keep changing bases because the Japanese keep taking over your old base. You start in Manila, then get chased to Java, then get chased down to Perth. On the bright side, Perth also puts you close to the best hunting grounds that I've found so far in the game.

04-03-09, 10:22 PM	#5
Lord Kelvin Loader Join Date: Nov 2007 Posts: 88 Downloads: 12 Uploads: 0	I tried starting from Pearl in a Porpoise in a few times, but the short number of tubes always frustrated me so much that I almost always ended up starting a new campaign. And since I've almost always started from Pearl, my only other choices were Tambor and Gar, and I've never been much for starting on the top. Playing RFB 1.4 with NSM4 now, and I've just discovered the love that is the Sargo. It can't field as much bow firepower as a Tambor, but damned if it can't still perform.

04-03-09, 11:46 PM	#6
MonTana_Prussian Ensign Join Date: Apr 2008 Location: Helena,Montana Posts: 234 Downloads: 0 Uploads: 0	I have to have stern tubes And I always start in Manila/Cavite,you're closer to the action early on,and even when Manila falls,Surabaya is close enough as well. nI've started in a salmon a couple of times,maybe I'll have to give the S-Boat a try. Running 1.4 RFB+RSRDC