Lovely image I just found in a book I have just inherited on the U-XXI Submarine being constructed.
I dearly hope we soon are able to use submarines ingame. Because the Submarine Event was absolutely amazing. Yes there were areas that could be improved such as historical depths allowed and manual/automatic depth charge settings for their depths. But otherwise it was a striking form of gameplay and I hope it comes back to Naval in a permanent fashion.
IIRC the event sub’s stat card listed the correct crush depth, so the artificial limit was likely specifically for that event mode (it’s much easier to test and gather data if players are actually “forced” to fight).
I already knew that was the reason for the choice. It’s an april fools event, they are purely for testing mechanics.
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As far as I am concerned, submarines are THE most important step for naval warfare before adding modern warships with ship to ship missiles. Both of which I and many others are anticipating heavily.
Battle for the Atlantic was not an april fools event, that was " Silent Thunder " some years earlier.
That earlier event did not have artificial restrictions on the submarine 's performance compared to what they were listed as having in the files.
Apart from it starting to take damage at 60 meters, that’s waaaay too shallow
we shall have subs.
When you shoot smoke granades on PG-02, voiceline says “Anti submarine weapon, launch!”
Cool
any news?
I’ve been told by some friends that they want to make big changes to the naval mode and add 5 new ship types to the tech trees
If “big changes to naval mode” is true, that would be very interesting. Because that’s exactly what naval needs. Of course if done well…
5 new ship types? Submarines, monitor ships, playable carriers, and no idea what other 2 could be.
I wonder where did your friends get the info?
Armed Merchants/Q ships maybe? Considering they played a not insignificant role in the Atlantic. Or maybe coastal battleships.
I visited it a couple of years ago. Other than the fact that some of the pumps were placed outaide the pressure hull, and because of inadequate quality control when building the seperate sections for the submarine, causing major maintenance and hull issues including water tightness. The Submarine was leagues ahead of anything similar at that time.
As I showed above, I found an interesting image of one but could not identify where or which U-XXI it is.
My Favourite Submarines which I seriously hope arrive soon are as follows:
WW1:
British:
*HMS M1 (amazing 12inch gun) test depth was 61m which ironically is the same depth limit of the event.
German:
*Type 31 such as ships like SM U-34 with it’s record of 59 ships in 1 patrol I believe.
WW2:
British:
*HMS Upholder.
*S Class
German:
*U-XXI
*Type VII’s
Japan:
*I-400.
I would honestly love playable carriers. I need my Graf Zeppelin
Yeah, a lot of post war subs were at lest in some way based on the U-XXI (and her systems/technologies), especially some soviet subd look like “you can copy my homework, but don’t make it obvious”
Yeah, I saw. It’s very cool!
