[TorpX]

Enemy naval vessels are always the most difficult and are intended to be. If the sim is even half way capable, and the AI is doing it's job, the odds will be against you.

This reminds me of one patrol I had when I was playing SHCE. I was patrolling off a small island and there was plenty of deep water, but little shipping. IJN cruisers and destroyers periodically went north and south along the sea lanes. At least twice I made approaches, carefully plotting out their course and adjusting for the zigs, only to have them zig away and leave me with nothing. It was very frustrating. They didn't detect me; it was just a matter of their speed and course changes making it almost impossible to get a good shot. They just left me behind. The next time, I spotted another CL, and positioned myself as close to his track as possible. I kept thinking they would do the zig-zag thing again, but this time they held a straight course. It was his undoing. I was able to put a spread of four into his side and he sank like a stone. If he had zigged like the others, he most likely would have gotten by. After this, I could see why so few captains were able to sink capitol ships.