TC will work fine when surfaced and you encounter ships: TC should change to 1 with a maximum of 64 allowed. But underwater, hehe... no.
Damages:
The damage in SH5-TWoS is straight-forward, there is nothing complex you could do: red systems are out and gone if red with 0-15%, you can 'almost' forget them or return to bunker to repair them. And only thing to do to stop the flooding more quickly and speed-up repairs is to set Battlestations Level 2 (via WO icon) and talk to your engineer to accelerate repairs; be sure to revert this order once the sub is ready to navigate again, else the crew will stay on high-repair state and be less effective elsewhere. That's pretty it for repairs, nothing else you could assist, but just watch the repair screen. The 'hammer' seems to be broken, even repairs at a high state (50%+) remain stucked and no, you cannot set the hammer to prioritize repairs, it doesn't work...
I think (don't remember): You can use the crew promotion points to increase some of the repair abilities, but don't expect any miracles...
Radio Reports:
There are several reports you can order via the radio man icon, but you need that optional mod for TWoS installed (download the package; there is a mod which allows to identify ships & order radio man outside of its station.)
The reports are quite different, and you need to chose them when appropriate:
- Send Status Report: I don't use it, it does nothing good I know about and I could get detected. Ignore the BDU request...
- Send Contact Report: Will sometimes send-in planes to attack your contact;
- Send Convoy spot Report: Should send-in planes and/or other subs for a wolfpack; useful only for convoys, not single targets.
Be careful with these reports because enemy is also listening, so you could soon see enemy planes attacking you.
Documents, manuals:
There is no TWoS manual, but what I do is: I have copied the TWoS thread in a text file and search for it using keywords when having problems. It saves a lot of time and posts
Also the mod has a lot of readmes inside.
I hope this answers some of your questions..
Good hunting,
