[Twohundertseventy]

Hey guys--

I'm new here, I saw there's an introduction forum, but I don't have terribly much to say. I just downloaded SH3 today. I love history games (I'm a huge fan of Paradox's grand strategy games) and I'm excited to learn this game, but I'm completely new to the entire simulation genre, be it subs, planes, tanks or whatever.

I just finished the tutorials (Naval Academy) and I'm eager to dive into a career.

My main question is whether you would recommend just jumping into the cold water and making everything as realistic as possible and turning all the more arcade-y computer aid off, or whether it might make more sense to leave them on, gain my bearings a bit and become comfortable with all the interfaces, shortcuts and the like before turning towards manual calculations of everything.

My intuition is that with a game that probably has a steep learning curve as-is (especially if you're not used to other simulations) it might be better to get a handle on things first and then tune the difficulty up later, but I'm open to suggestions.