I'm afraid nobody is running v1.3. No mods will work properly and nobody has played the version in four years. Version 1.3 was the first really viable version of SH4 and was very playable. However, for anything to work properly you have to run version 1.5, which is U-Boat Missions. There are very few mods available for 1.4 and next to none left for 1.3.
The advice for pressing F6 for the attack map came from a Trigger Maru Overhauled or Fall of the Rising Sun user. Those mods reconfigure the keyboard to be more like SH3. In the unmodded game I think the attack map is available only from one of the button bars. It does show torpedo path, but not the same way as SH3. I like it better.
Your answer to #6 is that in the DVD version of the program there was a "manual" whose only redeeming quality was the ship diagrams showing the tonnage. Actually I have looked at the manual in the past week and it has quite a bit of decent information, just none on how to play the game...... DVD versions morphed into having the manual on the DVD as a pdf file. I don't know if you get that with the Steam version.
Generally I hate online versions of games because they are typically crippled with a very low number of allowed installs. Steam kills that objection completely, but unfortunately they have made available a very archaic version that nobody plays. You really, really need U-Boat missions and it's best bought on DVD. Steam would be second choice.
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