Request Advice from Seasoned Kaleuns -- Longevity of New Command

Deathfrombelow23 · 02-22-08, 08:30 AM

Greetings, my fellow Kaleuns!! Sorry about the long post, but I wanted to post it in detail for you savvy, veteran skippers to advise me.
I started a career in 1939 with U-11 and soon I will be ready to upgrade, and may have to transfer flotillas to do so. This is my first career from 1939 where I'm treating it as a real life situation while playing DiD... meaning I'm not doing anything I wouldn't do as a Kaleu in real life (like sink ships with a deck gun 10 KM from the English coast in broad daylight.) Anyway, I digress... my goal is to try to survive the whole war. So, my question to you is... which boat would be a better upgrade... the VII or the IX? I'm not so much worried about the B or C-type designations, just the VII or IX in general. I was thinking about a VIIC or perhaps a IXC (although the B-types of each boat are cheaper). With a VIIC it seems that your patrols are always in the thick of all the action near England, with a few patrols off northern Africa and Gibraltar. However, being in the thick of the action is probably bad for me and my crew during 1943 and after. I've never played wtih a IX in a career for long, but I would think you get more distant patrol zones, more single ship contacts, and thus, perhaps, a greater chance to survive the war? I'm going to edit the config files for this career and completely remove the XXI... I don't even want the temptation!! I'm going to try to survive the war in a historically accurate boat, with only the historically accurate upgrades. So, after my diatribe, have any of you survived the war using only historical methods and do you have any advice for this Kaleun?? THANK YOU IN ADVANCE!! GOOD HUNTING!!

02-22-08, 08:30 AM	#1
Deathfrombelow23 Electrician's Mate Join Date: Mar 2007 Posts: 134 Downloads: 3 Uploads: 0	Request Advice from Seasoned Kaleuns -- Longevity of New Command Greetings, my fellow Kaleuns!! Sorry about the long post, but I wanted to post it in detail for you savvy, veteran skippers to advise me. I started a career in 1939 with U-11 and soon I will be ready to upgrade, and may have to transfer flotillas to do so. This is my first career from 1939 where I'm treating it as a real life situation while playing DiD... meaning I'm not doing anything I wouldn't do as a Kaleu in real life (like sink ships with a deck gun 10 KM from the English coast in broad daylight.) Anyway, I digress... my goal is to try to survive the whole war. So, my question to you is... which boat would be a better upgrade... the VII or the IX? I'm not so much worried about the B or C-type designations, just the VII or IX in general. I was thinking about a VIIC or perhaps a IXC (although the B-types of each boat are cheaper). With a VIIC it seems that your patrols are always in the thick of all the action near England, with a few patrols off northern Africa and Gibraltar. However, being in the thick of the action is probably bad for me and my crew during 1943 and after. I've never played wtih a IX in a career for long, but I would think you get more distant patrol zones, more single ship contacts, and thus, perhaps, a greater chance to survive the war? I'm going to edit the config files for this career and completely remove the XXI... I don't even want the temptation!! I'm going to try to survive the war in a historically accurate boat, with only the historically accurate upgrades. So, after my diatribe, have any of you survived the war using only historical methods and do you have any advice for this Kaleun?? THANK YOU IN ADVANCE!! GOOD HUNTING!!