Thanks to all for the replies. It's heartening to see that a PC game nearly a decade old can have such an enthusiastic following as you chaps.
I gather from some of the responses that the hydro contact of a convoy at long range can act as 'one contact'. I can see that being the case, but does the hydrophone operator call the contact as such? If he does, I could try and master that 4 bearing moving method to keep up while at a distance, get at least two of the critical factors, course and speed (I think you can get speed in the first 3 bearings can't you?) and then scoot ahead and pick a target as it come in view.
Now if the operator doesn't call the contact and I have to operate it myself, how do you read the heading, that is to say, I hear a contact how do I judge the center point? How accurate can you be?
P.S. I turned the headphones up to have a good listen, only to have the chief engineer yell, "getiefer eins null." Nearly tipped out of my chair, no wonder the escorts can find us.
