Would you like to see a WW 1 U-Boat simulation ?

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I certainly do!

...The Imperial German Navy started the war with 28 U-boats with an additional 344 commissioned.
In November 1918 no less than 226 boats were under construction.

The ease and skill with which the German engineers developed and built the most sophisticated warship of that time can only be admired.
Without any computer assistance, about 25 different types of U-boats for several different purposes - e.g. merchant submarines, long range cruisers, coastal and mine warfare vessels - had been designed.

More than 12,000,000 tons of shipping (5,000 ships) had been sunk by U-boats, with the loss of 15,000 lives. 60% of that tonnage was sunk by 22 commanders, the most successful ones were:


Lothar von Arnauld de la Periere 454,000 tons
Walther Forstmann 380,000 tons
Max Valentiner 300,000 tons
Otto Steinbrinck 290,000 tons
Hans Rose 214,000 tons
Reinhold Saltzwedel 170,000 tons
Waldemar Kophamel 149,000 tons...

( read more on uboat.net - His Imperial German Majesty's U-Bpoats in WW 1 )

This has some potential in it, doesn't it ?
Many different U-Boats, good old great looking warships and merchant-steamers / sailing ships, Airships, and so on...

To get in the right "WW 1 mood", you could read this very interesting Diary of a U−boat Commander .

...Slowly the periscope was raised and I held my breath; a groan came from Alten and he turned away. For a
fraction of a second I was almost pleased at his obvious pain, then, sick with disappointment, I took his place.

Yes! it was all over. There they were, and with hungry eyes and depressed heart I saw five great battle
cruisers, of which I recognized the Tiger with her three great funnels, the Princess Royal, Lion and two others,
zigzagging along at 25 knots, at a distance of 12,000 metres, across our bow.

They were surrounded by a numerous screen of destroyers and light cruisers, the former at that range through
the periscope appearing as black smudges.

It is not often one is permitted such a spectacle in modern war, and I could not tear myself away from the
sight of those great brutes, whom I had fought when in the Derflingger at Dogger Bank and again when in the
Koenig at Jutland. So near and yet so far, and as they rapidly drew away so did all the visions of an Iron
Cross. As soon as they were out of sight, we surfaced in order to report what we had seen to Zeebrugge and
Heligoland....

So - anyone else out there waiting for a WW 1 U-Boat simulation ? :hmm: