Yes yes, I know that the Suggestions forum is useless, even more so for ship requests, but I really do need to vent.
Why is it that IJN and KM get T2 and T3 submarine classess that were designed shortly before or during the war, while USN is stuck with a WWI patrol boat for its SS2 and an experimental 1920's prototype for its SS3? I could say similar stuff about the RN submarines since they seem to be carrying 1920's designs as well, but since I'm not an RN player (and know little about RN naval history) I'll leave that alone.
Anyways, back to the subject at hand. Out of all the nations' submarine forces, the USN had the one with the best service record, and here we are driving around outdated hulls. At the minimum, our SS3 should have been the Porpoise, and maybe that should have been the SS2, since the S class only really offers more speed and reloads than the O class.
If you're going to give us crappy WWI and interwar experimental submarines for our SS2 and SS3, then at the minimum we deserve the Gato (or at minimum, Tambor) class submarine for our SS4. The Gato was the largest class of USN submarines used during the war (including Balao and Tench), and were just as instrumental in winning the war as the carrier force was, maybe even more so; more than you could say for the KM or IJN submarine forces.
Yes, submarines are still overpowered, and yes, they do need to be fixed, but that doesn't mean that SDE can just fix that by giving us incrementally less powerful submarines and be done with it.
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