Alright, reporting back in:
I was able to range a 4400 ton merchant within 100 yards of the map contact distance at 2100 yards on a dark and stormy night. (Rolling seas and trouble seeing waterline and mast head.) Hopefully I'll run across someone in daylight on calm seas but this guy was just the first one I ran into. I got speed and heading from plotting the map contacts and then used scope for range and bearing. (I didn't want guess work on AOB and speed to throw off testing the OTC corrections.)
I set the PK then launched a four fish spread. I shot +3, +1.5, -0.5, and -2.5. (I meant to do 1 and 3 each side, but I missed those a bit.) Both negatives hit (but dudded; proving yet another part of Traveller's Mod worked as advertised) and the positives missed in front. That's about what I expected: targets tend to turn away when they see the torps.
There's a radar depth button on the engineering toolbar. The icon on it is only an arrow in the top corner pointing diagonal. I don't remember left or right but it definitely didn't say, "This button is to go to radar depth," when I looked at it. I don't remember whether there was a button for that before or not but the other buttons Traveller added were better looking than this one.
That's pretty much the only gripe I've got with that configuration. It hasn't crashed yet, saves load just fine (haven't tried overwriting saves and don't plan to), everything else that I'd gripe about is exactly the way Traveller said it would be. I still haven't ended a patrol (I've got one kill on my first patrol and I ended up killing him with the deck gun because the torpedoes are broken in April '42.) I'll check in again once I've completed patrols and actually gotten radar and such installed on my boat. So far all indications are that enabling the OTC aspect ratio patch after Traveller's Mod will do what we're looking for.
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