I was thinking on this as i played last night and i agree with bill, walking around to each station is a pain, but brings to light a now glaring issue with the series.
In older silent hunter games, you could order the boat to surface, and as soon as your baby broke waves you could insta teleport to the deck gun and start firing away. You could order a dive and still fire guns untill decks awash. The tactical advantage is obvious.
In SH5, you must manually walk around to/from the deckgun, which adds a little realism. The thing missing now is the crew. It would add a lot more strategy and tension if you had to wait for the entire deck crew to ALSO leave station and come back inside one by one down the one ladder available before being able to dive. Situations where you were in some danger of being spotted now have a lot more tension since you have to wait X longer to dive.
Might be hell to script the animation but i'd be happy for now with just a sound being played and an added duration to commence diving orders.
PS DarkWraith i had a warm moment reading your post under me, what a nice guy to want to do that.
