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Originally Posted by Rockin Robbins
It was the advent of the American hunter-killer jeep carrier groups that spelled doom for the U-Boat. Thirty knots is nowhere near fast enough to outrun a PBY. The Walthers were doomed, launched or not. They just would have provided a more exciting death. And the Germans couldn't build them half as fast as we would sink them.
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Yup. The strategic advantage of the Walter drive would have lasted about a month before the allies would have developed counter-tactics.
Now, the XXI boats, on the other hand...
I've played pretty extensively with both, and I would much rather have a quiet boat with a lot of underwater endurance than a loud, fast boat. Even at 30 knots, most escorts can still outrun you, and at that speed, you're making more than enough noise for them to hear you even at that speed. When playing with the Walter boat, I found myself going deep and creeping along more than I would have liked and wishing it had better underwater performance on batteries. Far as I'm concerned, the turbine is great for intercepting a convoy that you would have otherwise been unable to run down, but not for much else.