[Sailor Steve]

Would you really want to sit at the hydrophone station for six hours on and six hours off every day for a week, and never have a contact? Sit in the crew quarters playing cards for a couple of hours? Or is what you really want is to play a single-mission type scenario where you get the fun but not the boredom. I've been on a warship and believe me it's not fun. The only real break in the monotony is watching a movie on the mess deck or going outside and watching the water go by, and I'm not sure a WW2 submarine sailor could do either.

I think a lot of people have a highly romanticized idea of what it's like to serve on a naval vessel, and no idea of what it's really like. The point of a submarine simulator, or any ship simulator, is to be the captain. Anything else is just another job.