[joegrundman]

Sure.

The CM is excellent at achieving what it aims to achieve, which is to elaborate on the SH3 manual. In fact the first page of the CM says it better than I can: "This wiki is a community supported supplement to the Silent Hunter III user manual"

Look it is very good, but do you believe that it is the definitive guide to all there is to know about the game? It's an introduction that I along with many others found and still find useful but it does not go into much detail beyond the nuts and bolts.

That's not a bad thing! It's important and much needed as the original documentation is inadequate.

But if you are interested in playing at a deeper level, the CM does not represent the complete guide to all there is. For example, the CM only mentions one intercept pattern and the 3min15 rule. There is no elaboration on how to use sonar and radar in historical or effective methods, how to perform TMA, other methods of getting data than the 3min15 bearing plot method, collision course approaches, trigonometry, slide rules and whiz wheels, aspect ratios, turn counts, surfaced approaches and their relevance to you when targetting and when avoiding detection, and much, much, much more.

In general, i think a forum here dedicated to tutorials would become a virtual naval academy with different levels from beginner to advanced. Methods can be improved upon and developed by virtue of the fact that it is all there in one place.

As it is, there are a lot of parallel threads just drifiting around the ether here. I am constantly discovering fascinating articles written maybe two years ago or more, but i have to wonder how much more i am missing. If these were all in a forum together in appropriate sections, nothing would be that hard to find. It would be easier to contrast and compare different approaches to similar problems and so on...