What's the Fascination with U-boats?

[Ducimus]

Originally Posted by Mikhayl

That and living in France I'm more familiar with Brest, Lorient etc than with Pearl Harbour and the rest, it's easier to relate to.

That is completely understandable. As WW2 goes, people are generally only interested in stuff that actually involved their country. My theory is the pacific theater is largely ignored because it doesn't sell units in Europe. Few there would be interested since the PTO was largely US vs Japan.

I don't think its any coincidence that the majority of movies and games, involve the European theater. The bottom line is money, by making a Pacific oriented product, movie/game makers would be limiting their potental profits because few in European market would give a damn about anything that doesn't involve their own nations history. Factor this in, with the uboat hype, romance, and myth's, and their you have it. More uboats. Do you realize that the last PTO game outside of SH4 in this series was SH1? That was 14 years ago. In the mean time, we've seen two Uboat games with another on the way. For someone like me who grew up reading the stories of US submariners exploits and this great chapter of my nations history, toured museum boats, and has been to the ports some of these boats sailed out of, - it really sucks.