A few comments:
To Soterius:
Seems you need to do some reading on the endurance of submarines on battery power. Not wishing to sound narky! It's just you do need to know the limitations of the vessel you command. yes, it would help if there were a 'decent' manual, but there isn't.
As for mods, they aren't cheats, they are an attempt to make the sim more realistic. Stock SHIV is, frankly, a crap copy of the SHIII engine with tricked up graphics. There are SO many errors in the sim it's pointless to try to list them. As an example, your air-search radar shouldn't give you a bearing to the target; the US never had air-search radar in WWII subs that gave a bearing...they gave range only. How's that for a basic screwup?!!
To Red Devil:
Submarines were always intended as a surfaced fighter with the ability to dive out of harms way; at least the was the WW1 conception of a U Boat. This was still the "norm" at the beginning of WW2.
Sorry, that's not true at all. US doctrine had subs patrolling submerged in daylight hours ALL THE TIME within their patrol zone. It was generally only after the pre-war skippers were dumped that patrolling as a 'surface raider' became the norm. You might like to read Wahoo and Clear the Bridge by Dick O'Kane for more on that.
Generally, aircraft in stock SHIII and IV are nerfed. There are unreasonable numbers of them, they are ineffective in attack and stupidly easy to shoot down. You'll see posts by people saying they destroyed 20+ in each patrol.....
I gave up on SHIV because I found the number of obvious, crappy errors too great to tolerate (air-search radar; the whole 'propulsion system' problem i.e. USA's subs had a much better and flexible system compared with German subs, but SHIV just stuck SHIII's in it more or less; etc. etc.). I really should contemplate looking at the level of 'realism' achieved by the latest mods, I guess, but I don't know if I can be bothered......
Cheers
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