I do use Commander. however I believe that I DO NOT have a check mark in randomized thermal layers. This is still my very first campaign and I didn't know about the thermal scenario when I first started.
I guess I just missed things even though I did go very slow through those areas shown on the SH3 map as being high traffic areas throughout the war years.
Like I said above..it is so easy to miss a sound...you only have to be 1km one way or another to miss or hear...

They had a segment in the movie "Das Boot" where they went through the same scenario as I am now going through.. Kinda cool actually...I just hope they don't come out of the clouds & blow me to pieces just after I get to Brest...That would really not be to cool...lol..

(large merchant?)
better go ask balz

I still use the 105mm to good effect - you just need to know where the bad guys guns are.
If they have them at both ends then don't surface, but if the guns are only on the bow or stern, close to less than 1000m and eyeball the targets. If you're at the right angle, you can put a fish into her to slow her down, then max speed to directly in front or rear (whichever side doesn't have guns) with bow pointing towards the merch. Surface around 500m away, then maintain same speed forwards or reverse and fire away. Even with GWX 1.03 the target will only move enough to fire a couple of rounds (if any at all) as long as you're close enough, and shots into the bow or stern areas will easily sink her.

Are you the single handed sailor? :smug:

Ha ha...you lost me on that one...

Actually, I'm Army...I am just hallucinating that I am in the navy.

Three rocks of the canoe and it's barf over the side time for me...

I got that with flight sims ;)

Actually, I was asking that because I remembered both lines being Dire Straits songs.