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Originally Posted by poetic hunter
Can't you guys see how from the perspective of a new person, this "do whatever you want" objective style is more than a bit daunting. That person wouldn't know where the "Hot spots" you guys keep referring to are. He/She wouldn't know where to go find the hot spots with convoys, enemy ship patrols etc. Therefore the "Do whatever you want !" mission style is daunting in the beginning.
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Protip: In GWX, in the NavMap view, if you look up into the top left hand corner of the screen you will see the "corners" of several "cheat sheets" you can use during the game. A couple of them are listings of how far a vessel will travel in so many mins/hrs if it is going so many knots. One has charts of the mines and subnets of Axis ports. Very handy.
Now, the one that is all the way to the left, right up in the corner with the darker tan-colored edge - PULL THAT ONE DOWN!!! It's your map of the SH3 world, but with all the historical (and in-game) shipping routes clearly marked for your viewing pleasure. It also denotes areas of high Allied naval traffic and the areas in which you can expect to find Allied air cover during different time periods between 1939-45.
If you want to leave your assigned grid and go hang around a likely hot spot looking for Allied shipping, this is the best way for a n00b to find one.
Also keep in mind that if you are patrolling around the British Isles, your biggest source of tonnage (and primary objective in terms of enemy shipping) will be ships on their way in and out of British ports. If you are patrolling in the Atlantic (as opposed to the North Sea), a quick glance at the map will tell you where the choke points for all that shipping are. In order to get to Great Britain from the open Atlantic (and vice versa), ships MUST pass around either to the north or south of Ireland.
These areas - to the west, north, and south of Ireland, more or less - make up the famous Western Approaches.
Much good hunting to be found there. All shipping inbound or outbound to/from Liverpool, for instance, must pass through here to reach the open Atlantic (and that's a lot of shipping, including convoys).
The area to the southeast of the one marked in that pic, where the southern English Channel opens up into the Atlantic Ocean, is also good for ships going to/from ports along the south of England and the Channel coast.