That explain a great many things. i was confused that some things i changed were working and others were'nt. which caused me to look in completely the wrong place for the solutions. i had re-implemeted the mod after making some changes, just didnt keep track of which ones so i didnt work out that it had in fact worked. silly me.
Now that everything works its an awesome game so far. Am now happily pilliaging the north sea, have'nt totally got the hang of the tdc yet, but i'm having a lot of fun trying. hitting about 1 in 3 torps, including a hilarious miss at 400m. i love Mil Sims and this seems a pretty good one, the excitement the first time i got a torpedo hit, at 3500 yards on a 12 knot moving away target, was childish to say the least. ok i missed the first 6 times. but at least working out in game problems is challenging and fun! ive never had fun with trigonometry before, but im trying it the old school way and loving it. havent even got to the attack disk yet.
many karma points for helping me out there!
one last niggle i have, i keep getting radio messages saying i should report in, but when i speak to the radio man he doesnt have an option of replying, and i cant find how to do it manually. its a minor niggle, but ive read that you sometimes get usefull info back if you do.