SSC compared to SS

[ludovic]

Once SS are available is it still worthwhile to build SSCs? Any situations where you'd want to create one versus the other, for instance, building SSCs if you share a home area with a likely enemy and SSs for their longer range if your likely enemies' home area is away from yours? Or do you always want a mixture of both?

(The calculation for SSM I assume is different and has more to do with how vulnerable you think the enemy will be to mines and how many surface minelayers you already have.)

[nimrod]

Welcome ludovic.

I'm interested in answers as well. The manual states SS has more torps than SS and SSM, which I read as attack rolls; but I don't know what the actual numbers are to provide a cost valuation.

I tend to focus on SS and SSM, unless I'm in northern Europe. Then the SSC seem to provide a bit of value in that they are cheaper and hopefully act as depth charge magnets against other European nations... I think SSC seems to be a pretty poor choice for the USA, Japan and to a degree Italy. Italy is a bit weird as they share a common home zone with France and AH, its two most likely enemies; however the SSC seems a bit limited vs GB which has a large investment of territories in the Med but no home zone in the area.

[wlbjork]

Check the reliability of one of each sub ordered in the same turn. As I recall the Medium Subs are 20% more reliable than Coastal Subs. That is the only value we have access to and we don't know exactly how it's used other than in scenarios.