Your mod order seems just fine bybyx.
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Originally Posted by TorpX
If we are talking about realistic methods here, then you can't get Aob from course, period. No matter how many books you read, or how many patrol reports you go through, you will not find a single skipper who said he obtained the Aob from plotting the course.......... Look in the training manuals. You won't find this method there, either.
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Well, I can't exactly address
why the Captain's that wrote about their war stories did not explain the whole story about their achievements (I doubt any of them shared the royalties from their books with their subordinates either!), but there's plenty of instructions about what a Captain
should do with a Navigational plot.
Using the "
Submarine Torpedo Fire Control Manual" I draw your attention to Chapter 4, where it talks about the makeup of the "Torpedo Fire Control Party". Page 3:
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405. NAVIGATIONAL PLOTTER: The Navigational Plotter is an officer whose station is in the conning tower at the DRT. His primary duty is to maintain a navigational plot of the target or targets designated by the Approach Officer. He furnishes the TDC Operator and the Approach Officer the values of target course and speed obtained from the plot. In addition he furnishes predicted data regarding the target's position based on best known target course and speed, if requested.
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This man is only one of 15 listed as participants in the "Torpedo Fire Control" group (in-game we have to do the work of 15!!), yet his duty is to provide a map plot for the exact reason of providing the Captain (Approach Officer) with target course and speed.
Further reading, Chapter 5, Page 32:
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540. THE NAVIGATION PLOTTER: The Navigational Plot is one of the most important stations in the submarine fire control party. It is the only source from which a picture of the entire approach can be obtained. The Navigational Plot furnishes valuable information on target speed, target course, times of target zigs, average length of zig legs, and predicted target range when the submarine is below periscope depth. In order to furnish the Fire Control Party with this valuable information the Navigational Plotter must strive for accuracy, neatness, and speed.
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...."one of the most important stations in the submarine fire control party"? 
The training manuals speak for themselves. If a Captain/Author wanted to slight specific aspects for expedience in writing, or just take sole credit for his accomplishments over giving details of who/what may have helped in it......well, you be the judge.
