Game or sim?

[mrbeast]

Originally Posted by AVGWarhawk

Quite frankly, Quitefrankly, go pick up a book or two on the subject. Reading the first hand war stories gives you some insight and imagination for playing the game. I just finished the book Bowfin. The book reads like the game. So it is cool to play the game and experience in-game what you just read from one of the books of real experiences. Next thing you know, your a sub/uboat junkie attempting to score new books and browsing E-bay for sub/uboat stuff.

Very sound advice.

I've been reading quite a lot about US subs, started with 'Run Silent Run Deep', then moved on to 'War in the boats', read the Osprey New Vanguard on US submarines 41-45 and now I'm reading 'Silent Victory' and thats not to mention the U boats!

I'm always surprised at how authentic some of the things that happen in the game are. Sometimes something will happen in the game that I think is not very realistic, but then I'll read about RL events and infact what just happened in the game did indeed really happen.