Rockin Robbins said that and Sailor Steve has the quote.
It is true really for any game.
I have map contacts on and external views on because I like to watch the action but I do use it to aid me.I run with auto target on about half the time as well.
If you ask me the things that greatly increase the challenge are the ones that make things limited O2,fuel,batteries,not being invincible,realistic senors,realistic repair, all of those turned off make the game much much less challenging.
Really manual targeting is not that hard it is just a matter of enjoying or not enjoying going through all those steps.Learning the steps and their order is the main thing that effects the TDC.Sometimes I just do not want to do all of that crap.Some skippers allowed their XO to man the scope during the attack allowing them to have a better total picture of what is going on both indies the boat and in battle.So my "realism" legitimation in Rockin Robbins "It is how you play" words is that in my boat usually the XO is handling the attack.Map contacts on well I have 4 or 5 enlisted men and NCO's and a few officers in the conning tower all plotting this data down for me/the boat.... a fleet boat is a team of 75 men working together to cause as much damage to the enemy as possiable.
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