Loving the Navigation Table. Loving Wolfpack period. Hats off to the devs.
I have hundreds of hours in Silent Hunter 4 with mods and full realism.
My favorite part was plotting positions and courses of target ships on the chart with the sound gear and working my submarine ahead of the targets to the ambush position without ever making visual contact. There was little exactitude with the hydrophones in Silent Hunter 4 when tracking convoys, but the set worked well enough to get in front of the target ships.
Horseshoes. Hand Grenades. Kapish?
In the multiplayer games I have played so far on Wolfpack, the crews go for the simple approach and attack straight away rather than planning an attack with the tools at our disposal.
I realize there is no time compression, however, it does not take as long as you think to establish a targets position and course.
If I had help, in approximately 12 minutes I could show you EXACTLY on the map where the convoy/ship is, where it will be in the future, and what headings to steer to run wide open on the surface to GET AHEAD OF THEM while never needing to make visual contact until the actual attack, while submerged, with big fat juicy targets passing right by our front porch.
You know, like they did it in real life???
I've tested it repeatedly without any help and the workload is exhausting.
With help it would be a snap.
Now contrast that with the missions I've been on so far-- we spend a half hour or more imitating a porpoise and chasing the tail of the ships ahead of us.
I can't count how many times the target ships appear dead ahead and we are helpless to save ourselves. I mean, blundering into an armed convoy at 18 knots with bone dry tanks is probably not the best idea.
The Navigation Table is really done well. Just a fantastic piece of kit.
No need for you new players to be intimidated by the multitude of tools and operations you can accomplish as The Navigator. I realize you microbrains out there think The Table is too hard to learn. Quite the opposite.
I dive and execute multiple turns at different speeds and when I surface I have never been further than a couple of hundred meters off of my plotting.
Almost every time I am within 100 meters of my plot on a long and circuitous dive. My point is, the Navigation Table has been neglected. In my opinion, it is one of the most important tools we have to do what we are out there to do.
A submarine is an ambush predator. A leopard, not a cheetah.
Rant over. Thanks.
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