welcome aboard, some very good advice already given, but just incase you are finding it difficult and frustrating to intercept ships or convoys early in your career ,some simple numbers i used were quite helpful. now these are not exact sciences but rather observations i made.... when you recieva a cotact on the map, use ure ruler to plot a course for the ship(its heading)by running a straight (as you can) line through the square contact icon...i found... mostly, that merchants traveling slow will probably do about 11km an hour in calm seas.A type VII B sub will do around 30-32km an hour at flank speed on the surface. this gave me a little help in estimating the merchants position over a few of hours by marking , say 33km along its heading( with the ruler again) , this gave me a rough idea where it would be in 3 hours time (thats the 11km multiplied by three, incase im confusing you). thens the time to end around the heading for the merchant youve plotted on the map and intercept the merchant further down the line. merchants always vary in speed so a good idea would be to submerge and listen for screws when you arrive at your estimated point, hopefuly you will pick up the contact, it usually worked for me, and the obvious advantage of this was the ability to estimate a ships whereabouts even further along its course, simply by adding 11km onto your measurement and adding an hour each time. obviously the longer you estimate in distance the less accurate it becomes, due to sea conditions and ships changing course. use the same method for medium fast ships by replacing 11km an hour with 15km an hour. this worked for me untill i got to grips with this great game and i
hope this helps, ive just read it back myself and now im confused!! HA!!
no doubt one of the many helpful guys on this forum will have a much simpler idea, but i , like you played stock sh3,blissfuly unaware of how much help is out there in the subsim forum, im so glad i logged on, youll never regret it.. p.s grey wolves mod is amazing....and free!!!, theres lots of help if you need it....god... i know i do!!!
