Hello KibaKazuma
I started playing SH3 just 3 mounths ago.
I never played a subsim game before, so I was fresh new.
I like the "hard way" in this kind of game, so I started right away with GWX (a mod) and manual targeting.
It is hard? Not at all, if you know how things works and what your are doing.
To lear how things works I kept my desire for actual playing under control and spent many hours in reading tutorials, studying them well, watching videos of let's play and read a ton of stuff in general (game specific or historical).
To know what I am doing I played a little in non-combat situation (doing the naval trainings, the in game tutorials, till I obtained good results and feel very comfortabe with the interface and everything, and the GWX first patrol during peace time, before the war declaration).
Was all of this "keeping-myself-from-actually-playing-the-game" thing boring? Well, that's depend, obviously. For me it was a lot of fun.
Now I'm doing my third patrol in GWX, and at least I think I know what I'm doing, I sunk good tonnage, patrolled enemy waters in a sensible manner and, most importat of all, kept my kaleun and my men alive (and unscathed, till know).
So, is starting with manual targeting a good thing to do? Well: why not?
