Sub classes?

[Stealhead]

Originally Posted by Soviet Creeper

It appears no one has talked about my favorite boats, and thus I shall

The S18 and S42 are both very similar, the S42 has minor improvements and a bettter battery I think. These are very fragile, and cant dive very deep, but they are small. This allows them to operate a bit better in the shallows, and they are also great for harbor raiding. In RFB they also get to start with the 4in deck gun, which is of course way better than that tiny 3in. Dont expect to sink any large warship though, 4 Mark 10s wont do very much too anything. The only major problem for me is the lack of torpedos they carry, 12 max.

I wish they would have better modeled the S-boats myself the S-boats had a bit of variation depending on who had built them and when they where overhauled.Some had rear tubes and the the hull was are much more similar to the appearance of German U-boats where as the ones in SH4 are all of the original "Holland" design though he did not design them they still had his look.It would also have been nice to have the various yard boats have their distinct conning tower appearances because there was some variation between Electric Boat,Portsmouth,and Maintowoc boats.We are stuck with generic ones that is just me being nit picky.

So far as I recall even in stock the S-boats start with the 4 inch 50 caliber gun and do start with this gun in TMO you can swap out for a pop gun though I have no idea why anyone would want to do that.Also the S-boats where designed for coastal waters in which case their range was fairly effective.The Navy basically needed subs badly and the S-boats where available so they got used around the Solomon Islands because it was in the range of their operating abilities.The Asiatic fleet had them for the same reason.In WWII some S-boats actually prefered to use the deck gun to get kills which was a feasible tactic early in the war.