Ok, it's me. I'm back. I've been out and now, I just got back home.
Since I made my first post, I at least decided I would explore the harbor. I got into where the docks were, all at dead slow and running silent - scraped the bottom a couple of times. After a while I realized that the destroyers were not following me in. Then I reasoned that maybe the destroyers couldn't follow me in because they would have needed more room to run a pattern. So, after I couldn't figure out what to do with the recon assignment, I figured I wouldn't waste the trip. So I started blasting every ship in sight. I sank nine before I ran out of torpedoes - the easiest pickings ever. Then I surfaced and started blasting more with the deck guns. I sank two more, one got away behind some kind of peninsula, but it was burning like crazy, and we got two zeros. But the shore batteries were wearing me down so I decided it was time to go. My total is 11 ships and two airplanes and a sort of shot up sub that still works. I just need to get out past the destroyers now. But if I'm supposed to photo one of the ships, I hope I didn't just blast the one I need to photo.
I'll photo the others before I leave and then I'll know if that's what I was supposed to do. LOL This is a darn fun sim.
Thanks for the ideas, guys. I will try them and see what happens - AFTER a game save first. Haha. And I will read those tutorials, too. Thanks for those. Now that I've gotten somewhat familiar with the game, the tutorials won't be completely Greek to me.