VIIB with VIIC conning tower? - Page 3

TH0R · 02-23-10, 02:19 PM

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Originally Posted by oscar19681

I dont want to sound like the old one here. But u-47 was a VIIA...

Not true: http://www.uboat.net/boats/u47.htm

Though, if you look here:

http://www.subsim.com/radioroom/show...=149950&page=2

some VIIB's had VIIA tower, or so it seems...

But it is easy to confuse them as in early days they didn't have spray defectors fitted on their conning towers.

Florent · 02-23-10, 02:30 PM

In the books and Wikipedia U47 is an early VII b it doesn't have also a stern torpedo with bulge typial of VIIa.

Rhodes · 02-23-10, 04:46 PM

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Originally Posted by Florent

In the books and Wikipedia U47 is an early VII b it doesn't have also a stern torpedo with bulge typial of VIIa.

What Books? And wikipedia?

Type VIIB U45-55, 4 bow tubes; 1 stern tube!
The type seven B main diferences from the type seven, that after B was denominated A, was the internal stern tube, diffrent conning tower shape; the flak gun being in the tower, and the improved range, fuel capacity, etc; that I can not remember at this time.

TH0R · 02-23-10, 05:29 PM

I do believe that is what Florent said Rhodes.

Florent · 02-23-10, 05:29 PM

Wikipedia : unterseeboot type VII
I have an Orbis publishing of the 1984-86 Weapons Encyclopedia about Axis Submarine. And an Heimdal book about submarine, in both U47 is a type b or early type b.
On propaganda films on youtube about U47, when you can look at the stern, there is no indication of a type A stern (a bulge). Only VIIa had this bulge.

Herr Minger · 02-23-10, 07:02 PM

Sorry to argue with you Oscar19681 but Priens U-47 was a type VIIB. Check on u boat.net. Grrrr I've done it again, sorry folks but I make the mistake of not reading the rest of the thread.

oscar19681 · 02-23-10, 07:15 PM

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Originally Posted by Bilge_Rat

Neal has a copy. Maybe we could prevail upon him to post screenshots of the different in-game models so we can compare them.

Seems in NEAL,s "Farewell, old friend"" video it is already shown that the VIIB u-boat seen though the scope does seem to have the wrong conning tower. Unless ofcourse its a VIIC with a wire cutter. But i doubt it and i think this is the way the VIIB is modeled in sh-5 . At least in the preview version it is. Lets hope they fixed this for the final version or in an upcomming patch. Otherwise offer us a VIIB in the game if it looks exaclty like the VIIC model but only with a wire-cutter.

quad5 · 02-24-10, 12:28 AM

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Originally Posted by TH0R

some VIIB's had VIIA tower, or so it seems...

But it is easy to confuse them as in early days they didn't have spray defectors fitted on their conning towers.

+100000!!!

quad5 · 02-24-10, 12:34 AM

I cannot understand why UBI commit such errors in the presence of a considerable quantity of archival documents, photos and drawings? It is simply silly!

Where VIIB tower??? Why VIIC tower does not correspond to the original??? Why???!!!

flakmonkey · 02-24-10, 02:53 AM

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Originally Posted by oscar19681

In that case why not have an m1a1 turret with a 120mm smootbore gun , laser range finder and ballistic computer insted of the historical deck gun in sh-5. That would look so much cooler!

Grrrrr!

Florent · 02-24-10, 02:58 AM

Anyway we will see at release, look at early screenshots in August, there were the correct late VIIb tower.
A recent screenshot showed an update screen depicting the tower and written as " at start of the war " thus that we get. The better is to see next week rather than speculate.

Rhodes · 02-24-10, 06:44 AM

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Originally Posted by TH0R

I do believe that is what Florent said Rhodes.

Quote:

Originally Posted by Florent

Wikipedia : unterseeboot type VII
I have an Orbis publishing of the 1984-86 Weapons Encyclopedia about Axis Submarine. And an Heimdal book about submarine, in both U47 is a type b or early type b.
On propaganda films on youtube about U47, when you can look at the stern, there is no indication of a type A stern (a bulge). Only VIIa had this bulge.

Yes, I missunderstud. I was lost in translation. Sorry!

oscar19681 · 02-24-10, 07:09 AM

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Originally Posted by Florent

Anyway we will see at release, look at early screenshots in August, there were the correct late VIIb tower.
A recent screenshot showed an update screen depicting the tower and written as " at start of the war " thus that we get. The better is to see next week rather than speculate.

linky please?

oscar19681 · 02-24-10, 07:10 AM

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Originally Posted by flakmonkey

Grrrrr!

fw66 · 02-24-10, 07:41 AM

I heard that you can upgrade to the m1a1 turret if your captain has gained level 14 deck gun skill and you've defeated the Kraken Boss on level 34.

You do of course need to have earned the torpedoes of doom loot from the Davy Jones' Locker level - it's the only way to knock off all those hit points.

02-24-10, 12:34 AM	#39
quad5 Soundman Join Date: Nov 2008 Location: Russia Posts: 147 Downloads: 581 Uploads: 0	I cannot understand why UBI commit such errors in the presence of a considerable quantity of archival documents, photos and drawings? It is simply silly! Where VIIB tower??? Why VIIC tower does not correspond to the original??? Why???!!! __________________ http://hosted.filefront.com/Unterseeboote/

02-23-10, 02:30 PM	#32
Florent Watch Join Date: Jan 2010 Posts: 27 Downloads: 0 Uploads: 0	In the books and Wikipedia U47 is an early VII b it doesn't have also a stern torpedo with bulge typial of VIIa.

02-23-10, 05:29 PM	#34
TH0R XO Join Date: Jul 2009 Location: Croatia Posts: 420 Downloads: 52 Uploads: 0	I do believe that is what Florent said Rhodes.

02-23-10, 07:02 PM	#36
Herr Minger Soundman Join Date: Aug 2007 Location: South Wales UK Posts: 147 Downloads: 101 Uploads: 0	Sorry to argue with you Oscar19681 but Priens U-47 was a type VIIB. Check on u boat.net. Grrrr I've done it again, sorry folks but I make the mistake of not reading the rest of the thread.

02-24-10, 02:58 AM	#41
Florent Watch Join Date: Jan 2010 Posts: 27 Downloads: 0 Uploads: 0	Anyway we will see at release, look at early screenshots in August, there were the correct late VIIb tower. A recent screenshot showed an update screen depicting the tower and written as " at start of the war " thus that we get. The better is to see next week rather than speculate.

02-24-10, 07:41 AM	#45
fw66 Torpedoman Join Date: Apr 2008 Location: UK Posts: 119 Downloads: 53 Uploads: 0	I heard that you can upgrade to the m1a1 turret if your captain has gained level 14 deck gun skill and you've defeated the Kraken Boss on level 34. You do of course need to have earned the torpedoes of doom loot from the Davy Jones' Locker level - it's the only way to knock off all those hit points.