Submarines! W.T.F!

**janjacobsv** · 03-19-2009, 03:13

I got the same tech from the spanish when i was playing the otomans, was expensive and didnt show up in the tech tree afterwards..

**butterfingers158** · 03-19-2009, 04:24

i saw this tech as the dutch, I never researched it but it was available for me to trade to other factions.

**Mailman653** · 03-19-2009, 04:43

http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Submari...t_submersibles
Not always the best source of information, but its free!

**Zoring** · 03-19-2009, 06:34

Seems to be something CA planned to put in but never did. If you accept it from them it never shows up and it's unresearchable.

**Vlad Tzepes** · 03-19-2009, 12:15

Originally Posted by Zoring

If you accept it from them it never shows up and it's unresearchable.

Aha! So that's why those cunning Russians kept offering me this useless tech for my very nice and cosy Trinidad Tobago colony...

**Maleficus** · 03-20-2009, 02:08

Originally Posted by Mailman653

http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Submari...t_submersibles
Not always the best source of information, but its free!

Did you notice this paragraph:

In 1851, a Bavarian artillery corporal, Wilhelm Bauer, took a submarine designed by him called the Brandtaucher (incendiary-diver) to sea in Kiel Harbour. This submarine was built by August Howaldt and powered by a treadwheel. It sank but the three crewmen managed to escape. The submarine was raised in 1887 and is on display in a museum in Dresden.

"It sank"??

**antisocialmunky** · 03-20-2009, 02:49

It sprung a leak like many of the early ones did. Not sure what the joke is, its like saying the IIS decompressed.

**Discoman** · 03-20-2009, 03:28

Originally Posted by antisocialmunky

It sprung a leak like many of the early ones did. Not sure what the joke is, its like saying the IIS decompressed.

I think the joke was the fact that it "sunk" underwater even though submarines are supposed to be underwater in the first place.

**anweRU** · 03-21-2009, 01:26

Originally Posted by Discoman

I think the joke was the fact that it "sunk" underwater even though submarines are supposed to be underwater in the first place.

Actually, those early devices were submersibles, as the tech name correctly states. They were surface vessels that submerged temporarily. The CSS Hunley is considered to be the first submarine to sink a ship, but its conning "tower" was always above the water level.

Even the dreaded German U-boats of WWI and WWII were submersibles, not true submarines. The schnorkel turned submersibles into submarines, i.e. vessels that spend the majority of their time underwater. And of course we now have nuclear propulsion, which is even better.