Uboat availibility

[Tessa]

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Sorry to bump, but feel it's necessary to ensure you that I did not want to point finger at anyone!

Only urged by the manual's Introduction Page: "Our goal is historical accuracy, so please let us know if you see something is missing, or requires correction or change".

I still fail to see, why Jan. 43 is chosen, but nevermind. It's corrected on my end now!

Actually the first sailing of a IXD2 in an active patrol was U-179 in August of 1942. There are a number of inaccuracies with some of the boat dates, but I'm still researching them to be 100% sure. There's some reference books that I'm having to have my local library locate. I found a great book today when looking through the National Archives, but as it's out of print would have to send an official request to the Library of Congress where they'll send the book to the closest presedential library where I can view it there.

I think the major problem with finding boats available before they are ingame is that while a single boat may have sailed a combat patrol, it hadn't been officially assigned to a flotilla yet till a later date. i.e. the 2nd Flotilla didn't officially get VIIB's assigned to them till 41; but many boats did dock there and go right back out on patrol.

While some boats may be off by a month or two (both ways), overall its pretty accurate and lenient. Otherwise you wouldn't see the VIIC/41 till 4/44 and the XXI till 5/45. Sailing and sinking stuff is the meat of the game, sacrificing some of the pure historical records in order to allow the advanced ships playable is a fair trade off. Sailing the same VIIC or IXD2 for 3-6 years gets rather boring.