Well after looong time I'm back in SH3 this time with GWX 3.0 gold and MaGui UI... After two weeks of on&off playing because of job, I have finished my first war patrol at 85% realism (I love that external camera, and I had to keep weapon officer assistance because of mod).
First time playing with "map update off" and it's pretty difficult...I was already familiar with manual aiming but this is a whole new game... and I want to kiss my watch officer all the time

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Also I'm practicing (and getting really good at it... thanks to you guys) hydrophone tracking and plotting, this means a LOT. Only those pesky merchants change course pretty often, in coastal areas, and I have learned that you need at lest 6 degrees rate of change for this methods to work... i.e. small change means he is coming at you... move aside and measure again.
One more thing left to master...RAOBF disc... almost done...
60.000+ tonnage for first patrol is not bad...