fire first means death thats my derative on it under ice it matters in the blue water it matters
firing on a contact you just classified could give your position away whos to say the sub your trying to get is there it could be a whale or fish or some thing else
in saying that you classify a target and fire on it turns out to be a whale then the attacking sub has a pure fix on you he fires then what you do your screwed
as i drive the akula and know that in a battle its normaly wise to stay slow
i also urge you to know your platform inside out get every bit of info and revise it know every inch of the boat know sonar radar ect all systerms then learn to control your boat
as i command an akula i know there are plenty of boats out there who can kill me and have a big advantage over me such as a seawolf but i learn how to get round them because i find the weak spots
but equaly theres boats out there not so good as you and can kill you ok you might be in a seawolf but you get careless some other skipper will pick that up and he doesnt have to have the best boat in the world during a mission a few months back a chinease kilo sank an american 688i fluke or no fluke to late its dead
learn from mistakes build on them adapt them only way forward its a game yeah but as i want to be a captain one day i take it seriously
anyways what platform do you command ?