Good things have been covered, not quite sure what your after.
You're not going to get speed and course with sonar alone. To get speed and course using manual targeting you need to get at least two good stad measurements, about 20 seconds apart is good. After your second one go to the speed wheel, you'll see an tab on the top left..that says something like "ask for speed", can't remember exactly what it says, but you click it and you'll see a message at the top giving you the ships speed and course. You can then click the tab to the right on the speed wheel and that sets the speed to your TDC. The AOB is basially the ships course, you have to set that manually by adjusting the AOB wheel or just guess looking at the ship. Many use the EASY AOB mod that lets you turn both wheels, but you can still adjust it yourself using the AOB wheel until it's on the right course. However, you need precise stad measurements, usually within 2000 yards to be accurate, but you just keep at it and you'll figure it out before then. I'm sure all of this is in one of the manual video tutorials in skipper bag of tricks.
You can get a speed and course estimate using sonar alone, but more of a guess.
Obvious you want to do your attacks based on the best info placed in the TDC. There are many ways, but if using the manual targeting, you need to have you best solution possible right before you shoot. You may have a decent setup and decide to wait and shoot without looking, but if they've changed course or speed, that's no good. Usually I play with cams and contacts off, so I'll get my best set up on the TDC and when they're about 2000 yards, I'll do my last setup to make sure and adjust. Depending on where escorts are, I may stay up and shoot all my tubes or dive deep.
I say learn manual targeting. Auto is very limiting. Many times you have to shoot based on where you think the ship will be when your torps arrive and auto targeting won't let you set up that way.
Do look at the skipper bag of tricks. The OKane 90 is a good attack, but it becomes worthless if you're spotted right before you need to shoot as they will go into zigs, speed changes, ect. You need to learn how to use the basic stad, then you can use many options with it, like shooting by the wire.
It may sound hard at first, but in time it becomes easy. Learn as many shooting techniques as you can. You keep at it then it will just click.
Most important it doesn't matter how good you learn to shoot, you also have to learn how to get into positions and shoot before the escorts find you, not an easy task, but if you do it right, you can easily defeat the escorts of TMO and shoot before they ping you. You may want to start with the easier AI optional mod with TMO.
The best tactic, moreso with cams off,when your busy looking at the scope and setting up is to ask your sonarman to follow nearest warship. If he tells you it's fast and closing, you've probably been found out, but gives you time to decide.
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