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Originally Posted by Kendras
I don't understand why you are quarreling with each other, guys ... 
@ Zosimus : You can't say that u-boats' captains were incompetent, because you have not yourself commanded a German u-boat in WWII, so you have no real idea on how difficult it was (technology, navigation, psychology, self-control ....) Don't forget that SH3 is just a very unrealistic game with a very basic artificial intelligence, and you are playing it at home sitting on a confortable chair during your free time, without risking your own life, and the life of a whole crew ... If "game over", you can restart ... that was not the case in real life ... |
What he implied is that since he did so well in a game, spending an hour making things perfect, most real uboat captains were incompetent because they followed their handbook while dealing with the unpredictable actions of other human beings who may or may not have spotted them, with the actions of their own crew, with the randomness of equipment failures or weather, eith the effects of wind and current on ownship course and speed made good, rather than trying to perfectly match his technique in a controlled environment.
Bottom line. The techniques used by real ww2 captains would've been used by all of them because they'd be discussed over drinks, gossipped about at squadron, and eventually become doctrine. New techniques discovered by a succesful captain would eventually be tried by all of them. For all we know, some Uboat captain may have parallelly figured out Ekelund ranging, Spiess Ranging, or CHURN, but if he never got a chance to employ it due to being sunk first, we'll never know.