Funny you should ask. I just installed the MEP environment mod + the high res fix. My computer is four years old (AMD64 2.2gig, 2Gig Ram, ATI Radeon x1600 512mb video card) and I was afraid I couldn't run it, but I thought what the hell let's try. To my surprise it works great. And I had no idea SH3 could look THIS good.
But anyway, the MEP environment mod extends your vision to 20km. So I had passed Scapa Flow in my new career (1939) and I can just make out 5 lines of smoke on the horizon. I'm curious so I let my WE identify the target (a little bit cheating at 18km but ok) and it was the HMS Hood. Never seen it before. My excitement didn't last long though, as this juicy task force was travelling at 23 knots at a course perpendicular to my own. So no way I was gonna get near them.
Generally, I don't try to intercept task forces. When it's pretty close, or if it's bound to cross my course anyway, I'll check them out, but I try to stick to realism; you're out there to hunt for merchants. As a rule of thumb I will attack Southampton class and anything that's bigger. The rest I let go.
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