A sanity question

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Originally Posted by desertstriker

i think the worst it has gotten for me so far is actually wanting to find the BPs for a type XID2 or XXI, VIIC at the least and actually finding somebody to build it so i can live in a submarine.
only problem is the darn coast guard might think i am smuggling drugs
but seriously if i had the money i would do it

A very good idea and I made some initial calculations on the costs. A type VII C cost 4.8 million Reichsmarks to build. That's something like 2 million dollars in 1940. With inflation and stuff it would be like 32 million dollars today.

But... a type VIIC then was hypermodern technology. Nowadays it's scrap metal. And there's the dockyards in China with cheap labour. I think I'm going to see my bank manager today. I'll tell him I'm gonna build a type VIIC with the money he's going to loan me. He'll get the money back after I sail to Somalia, man the U-boat with Somali pirates and start getting some real ransom money extorted out of the tankers and merchants sailing between Asia and Europe