Your advice was spot on! Flying around on high tc waiting for the stutter isn't going to cut it out here. After lots of diligent searching, and moving closer to the english coast, U-7 found it's first victim, a tramp steamer. I got into position, calculated it's speed and path, and waited until it was about 15 degrees left of zero. Then we let Mr G7e fly. I was aiming right for the stack, but somehow caught it in the bow (i'm going to have to figure out what went wrong there, i was sure i had everything entered correctly).
Despite being somewhat off in my aiming, it was good enough to get the job done. It caught fire, and its bow started dropping fairly quickly. I sped off, with the occasional explosion in the background. After about 10 minutes or so, the tramp steamer, half submerged, decided to roll over and go under the waves.
And there you have it, my first career kill in SHIII, 17 years after the game came out. Better late than never!
