[frau kaleun]

Originally Posted by perky416

Hi Gargamel,

What you have just said makes GWX sound fantastic. Exactly what im after.

The main thing that bugged me was how hard it is to destroy ships. I know its probably more realistic however i love going around sinking merchants with my deck gun to save on torps.

I restarted my career and was re-doing the training, i only managed to sink 3 of the ships before i ran out of shells.

Did you aim at the waterline (or order your crew to do so)? In early war patrols I routinely sink ships with the deck gun and only once have I run out of ammo. They will sink much faster if you put holes in them at the waterline. OTOH I also use the Additional Ammo mod to increase my loadout of shells, but this is one of those things that is incredibly easy to tweak if you want to get more bang for your buck.

1 - When i am in the command room, there is a big pole which looks like the periscope directly in front of my helmsman.

Don't know which boat you're in, but in my Type VII, that's the observation (sky) periscope. Which is both useful and necessary and is exactly where it should be.

2 - On the bridge to the left there is something that looks like a hoop that restricts my view.

Radio direction finder IIRC. When you look through your binocs it won't be there. Which some people dislike as it's not realistic enough.

3 - When using my binoculars on the bridge, the headings at the top of the view have disappeared,

I'm actually with you on this one, in fact if there's a way to get them back that's easy and doesn't mess with the rest of the Gui, I'm all ears. I don't like that I can't tell when I've made a full circular sweep of the horizon on binocs, since if I were truly standing on the bridge of a ship I would know whether I was looking directly ahead or off to port or starboard or out over the stern even with my binocs up. The bearing hashmarks in the binocs view would be the best way to replicate that IMO.

and also when using the binoculars and your facing the fornt of the sub, when you look as far down as you can you can actually see the front, however in GWX you cant, i found this really helpful when steering towards enemy ships.

If you have the bearing of the enemy ship (which, if you've sighted it from the bridge, your WO should be able to give you) all you have to do to steer towards it (or ideally some spot ahead of it) is to click the desired bearing on the compass. And GWX does not skimp when it comes to the compass, you gotta give it that.