If you really want to get into manual targetting I'd suggest trying a different gui than the stock one, there's a number of others out there that while they don't give you the answer, make it quicker to get the information and don't require you to sit there with pencil and paper doing all the trigonometry yourself. Most of the manual gui's have the OLC as the foundation, and different functionality added or different panels shown on the attack scope/UZO. Would still keep the weps officer around unless you don't have any desire to try and take down escorts that are actively hunting you. Only way I've found to semi-reliably take out escorts in these situations is wait until they just pass the 300m range from you and fire a steam torpedo at max speed at em. Its just the minimum range needed for the torpedo to arm and with ~12-15 seconds most escorts can't change course enough to avoid getting hit somewhere; once the acoustic/homing torpedoes become available its a very good way of getting rid of them with a single shot about 7 times out of 10.
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