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Originally Posted by Keelbuster
Really? It's just as easy to shadow the convoy via hydrophone with a rough course estimate. And, you can't really attack in bad weather anyway so there's no need to pull in exact information about target position. I don't know of one reason that you _have_ to use radar. I guess, if you are in good weather, looking for a single merchant contact, you might as well throw on the radar to help hasten visual contact.
Now wait - I guess, if you have 'Update Map Contacts' on, then a radar contact gives you exact course information for your target. This is something that the hydrophone doesn't do. As far as I remember, without update map contacts, you just get bearing/range info from radar. So - I guess the utility of radar may depend on your difficulty settings.
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I totally agree with you on this one. With respect to bad weather the use of radar helps you either to avoid the targets or to position yourself in their path and fire from really short distances. It's true also that if you have the update map contacts your life becomes much more simple. The use of hydrophones to follow a convoy or a target is much better than the radar but there is a significant problem. Enemy Destroyers can pick you up in their hydrophones from large distances. That means that you cannot travel fast underwater and targets tend to move away from you.