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Originally Posted by Randomizer
When snorkeling in the navigation map station and with a periscope raised, TC will not drop to x1 on visual contact with aircraft. Without Map Contacts On they will not appear visually at all so not using map contacts in the late war will hasten your demise. Radar detection's when snorkeling will drop TC to x1 however.
Using TC greater than x16 and any map zoom greater than the 2500 metre squares when using the snorkel is a recipe for disaster as the threats will generally be on you before you can react.
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I must admit that I have never progressed far enough into a campaign to be able to use the snorkel and experience what you have said. The point I was trying to make is that the settings in SH3 Commander that are meant to manage TC settings for "When Enemy Plane(s) Detected" and "When Enemy Ship(s) Detected" don't affect enemy units as they are supposed to. The default for these in Commander is x8 and I left the settings at this for some time because out on patrol, for me anyway, TC dropped to x1 when enemy ships and planes were spotted so I thought why bother messing with these settings. However, what I did notice is that when neutral units were spotted i.e. both ships and planes, TC would drop to only x8, thus giving me the heads up before making a formal identification that these units were neutral. A bit of a spoiler. So I went into SH3 Commander's settings to see if there was a similar setting for neutral units. There isn't, so I reduced the "When Enemy Plane(s) Detected" and "When Enemy Ship(s) Detected" settings down to x1. Now all units whatever nationality when spotted TC drops to x1. However, this hasn't cured the neutral problem completely as I don't get a verbal notification from my watch crew when a neutral is spotted, so I still know in advance that the unit spotted is neutral.
Nemo