Hello Julie, I'm a long time sub simmer with many years of manual targeting. But I've been away from it for almost a year and last night was my first sighting after days of game play hunting. I fired three torps one at a time and all of them missed. I'm so frustrated I will have to re-set up my attack. And that brings me to my point.
The step you didn't mention and may be what you're missing is setting up the attack. Whether you are manual targeting or using Auto you should get in the habit of setting up properly. This is done before you mess with the TDC, triangles or firing solutions either manual or auto. To set up the first thing that comes after a ship spotting is determining its course. From there determine its speed either from ship ID or stop watch method. Then you adjust your own course to intercept. Try to intercept so your course is perpendicular to the enemy course. Otherwise you may find that just being in range of the target gets you a firing solution for the aft torpedoes when you didn't plan it that way.
As you will learn charting skills are just as important as firing solutions. In my case since I missed my target I will have to spend a few hours running out ahead of him while keeping out of sight. Then reset my position to lay in wait. If by chance he spots me he will change his course. Then all bets are off. It will be hours until he returns to his original course again.
It sounds like you are already using auto targeting. That is good because knowing his course, your own course and his bearing is enough to wrap your head around for now.
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