Welcome to Subsim! In the stock game you can mostly ignore the escorts, so long as you limit periscope exposure to 30 seconds, track where they are and evade if they go into fast pinging.
My tutorials are done in controlled conditions, off the friendly coast of California near Catalina Island. That is because it's necessary to learn to shoot without complications before you toss in the nasty escorts.
There are two strategies to follow. The first would be to learn escort silliness while still using auto targeting. I'd tend toward this course, although it isn't realistic in reflecting how real captains learned.
The second would be to learn manual targeting against single or lightly escorted targets first, avoiding convoys. Then when the steps become more automatic, you can mix in the bad guys later.
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