IXD2 - winner of the brass balls award

[Penelope_Grey]

LOL awesome pic!

The IXD2 is just too big. I mean, the IXD1 was a cargo U-boat so the IXD2 is just the battle version, its way too big.

IXC is the way to go!

[Ducimus]

Originally Posted by Penelope_Grey

LOL awesome pic!

The IXD2 is just too big. I mean, the IXD1 was a cargo U-boat so the IXD2 is just the battle version, its way too big.

IXC is the way to go!

I tend to agree.


This ought to demonstrate that even more.

The following pictures were taken early in GWX's development. At the time i was on the dev team working on the indian ocean RND layers for GWX ( so i have an idea of what to expect over there, but the finiished version looks very little like the orginal version i made way back then, so its essentualy not the same thing anymore).

Anyway. the story is, i was testing to make sure the convoys appear as i had planned them to, i found a convoy and started to attack it. I was basically hit by a depth charge while crash diving and was forced to surface. The rest is self explanitory (edit: well kinda, all the other escorts in the area started shelling me, and the one ramming me got in the line of fire, hence the extra fireworks) :

[Morts]

did you survive ?

:rotfl: :rotfl:

[Ducimus]

Originally Posted by Morts

did you survive ?

:rotfl: :rotfl:

That 2nd series of screenshots. NO. I had about 3% hull integrity at the moments the last pictures were taken. (and both engines were destroyed if i remember correctly.)

Edit: infact, i think i blew up right after the destroyer did.

[Morts]

Originally Posted by Ducimus

That 2nd series of screenshots. NO. I had about 3% hull integrity at the moments the last pictures were taken. (and both engines were destroyed if i remember correctly.)

and what can we learn from those screenshots Ducimus ?

nothing at all but it was pretty hilarious looking through them:rotfl: :rotfl: :rotfl:

[Ducimus]

Originally Posted by Morts

and what can we learn from those screenshots Ducimus ?

nothing at all but it was pretty hilarious looking through them:rotfl: :rotfl: :rotfl:

Yeah, i got owned. :rotfl:

But if you look at the size of the boat in relation to the ramming escort.. it certainly raises an eybrow.

[Morts]

Originally Posted by Ducimus

Yeah, i got owned. :rotfl:

But if you look at the size of the boat in relation to the ramming escort.. it certainly raises an eybrow.

it sure does
thats one helluva boat..longer than the escort

[CCIP]

I love the IXD2

Just not for convoy attacks

My IXD2, interestingly enough, was the only boat on which I survived a DiD (WaW, at that) career from 1942 to the end of the war. Just barely - I took on a few convoys with it and escaped; my tower was once rammed by a DD - in the Coral Sea of all places; the biggest enemy though were aircraft - there were at least 3 cases when I was bombed and very seriously damaged; I lost 7 crew to air attacks and came back with barely any hull integrity left...

But I guess it was a charmed boat

[kiwi_2005]

Originally Posted by Penelope_Grey

LOL awesome pic!

The IXD2 is just too big. I mean, the IXD1 was a cargo U-boat so the IXD2 is just the battle version, its way too big.

IXC is the way to go!

Usually woman like the "big is better" theory? :hmm:

Yes the IXD2 is a large boat but its a fantastic boat at that. IXC maybe, IXD2 all the way!

[Penelope_Grey]

Originally Posted by kiwi_2005

Usually woman like the "big is better" theory? :hmm:

Yes the IXD2 is a large boat but its a fantastic boat at that. IXC maybe, IXD2 all the way!

Oi, you are a moderator now, you are gonna have to moderate yourself if you expect us ordinary posters to take your moderating seriously, your moderateship!:rotfl:

IXC or IXC/40. IXD is too big. cumbersome and very unagile.

[andy_311]

That's a very long trip to Penang last time I did it it took me ages .

[Mush Martin]

great I just started a type VII uber mini and now this

I had always assumed that the game used the same hull
for all type IX's I guess I shouldve looked closer.

MM

[Ducimus]

trip takes 90 days at sea. No sweat.

Now as to the IXD2, i personaly prefer the IXC/40. Im debating if i should retry this with that boat, or continue with the D2.

edit:

I had always assumed that the game used the same hull
for all type IX's

No it doesn't. Exception being the IXC and IXC/40 - those use the same hull. IXB and IXD2 has its own hull.

[STEED]

When I got back from West Africa I bought an IXC/40 and latter today I shall take her out for a spin.

[AndyW]

Originally Posted by kiwi_2005

Yes the IXD2 is a large boat but its a fantastic boat at that. IXC maybe, IXD2 all the way!

Would be a perfect fun scooting in the waters around England (Channel, Irish Sea) for a 3 months' patrol with a IXD2. Anyone ever tried using that Brontosaurus in a role as a coastal u-boat or a Gibraltar breakthrough?

Cheers,
AndyW