[THEBERBSTER]

Hi drakkhean

campaign is broken for sure, which can be rectified by OH.

Adding OH will make no difference if the tonnage bar and campaign icons are showing in your game.

isnt there something wrong where you get stuck in a constant rain storm or fog or something or was that SH3

LSH3-2015 and SH5 TWOS regularly change the weather patterns.

id like to keep Auto targeting and weapons officers help.

There nothing wrong with that, its your game and you can play it any way you want.

SH5 measuring and calculating for a torpedo shot just isn't in the appeal.

This can all be changed in TDW's Option File Editor Viewer.
There are hundreds of patches in it so you can customize your game to the difficulty level you want to play with.
You also have the Game Play Settings where you can adjust the difficulty to turn off manual targeting.

wasn't it the weapons officer job to take the measures and numbers that the Captain told him while peeking through the periscope and then come up with a firing solution based on that

That the whole point of manual targeting is a challenge for the player and part of the enjoyment of the game.
That is why Auto Targeting does it for you.

I've tried WOS mod but some parts of it even while reading tutorials and following videos will still get me twisted on what options and such to choose from and how to activate this and that to the point where i find myself not wanting to play it and ever since SH5 has released i have not completed one campaign from 1941 to 1945

I do not understand why you are stressing yourself out its not rocket science.
Your lucky to get to 1941.
I have never got as far as 1941 to date playing at 100%.

Might be worth you taking at a look at Wolves of the Deep or cherry picking some mods out of sobers mega mod.
The important thing is not to use the tonnage bar and campaign icons which none of these do.
Good luck.
Peter