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I simply assume that it's my crew that's taking down the bearings from the guy manning the periscope and plotting them on the map.
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But in a real WW2 UBoat that guy was YOU as commander
When conducting surface attacks at night it was the IWO who gave the target data to the TDC operator, and the commander simply directed the uboat and payed attention to the tactical situation. But in all submerged attacks, it was the commander who did it all.
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It would be awesome if in SH5; the quality of your map depended entirely on how rested and well trained your crew was -- a poorly trained bridge crew that's tired would plot an attack map that bore no relation to reality -- ships misidentified, ranges wrong, bearings wrong; and slow to update.
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A plot was conducted only in surface during daytime when doing an end-around a convoy or fast ship. In those cases, it was again the commander who conned the boat and gave to the navigator bearings and ranges to make a plot.
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Likewise; when I lock onto a ship and tell my Weapons officer to give me a bearing to fire in SH3; I wished that the accuracy and speed in which he generated a fire control solution depended on his experience.
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That would be absolutely correct in historic terms
