I'll say: give vanilla a try for a patrol or two, but after that do get one of the megamods. Trust me, the ones taht allow you to start and end a patrol at Midway instead of Pearl Harbor are big time-savers.
What most bugs me in SH4 (even if it is true to history) is that long "Pearl Harbor to East china sea" patrol trek which takes a lot of RL time (even with 3000x speed) and where almost nothing ever happens on the way.
Shortening this to a Midway-to-east-china-sea trek is a pretty no-nonsense thing (especially since if you play with limited fuel, you will basically always refuel at Midway on your way to Pearl anyways)
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