No anger here at all. And I'm not trying to do your
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Well...if you play it with this mod, that won't happen.
Well...if you look at the list, that is representive of what happened in RL.
Well...if you had manual targeting, that wouldn't happen.
I'm sorry guys that I don't quite measure up to your standards.
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Actually, you are reading our posts entirely wrong. I am saying that you with three weeks' experience are single-handedly outperforming the entire US Submarine fleet of WWII. This is good in that you are accumulating boat handling experience that will stand you in good stead if you want higher challenges later. My main point was that if you were to step up to the realism/challenging gameplay mods now you wouldn't learn anything but that you didn't like to be frustrated.
Playing TMO/RSRD at the end of 1944/beginning of 1945, if you meet a convoy of six merchies protected by six to eight escorts, in your first attack you won't even get to the merchies. Shooting at the escorts is mostly a waste of torpedoes. For someone with three weeks' experience with the game it's just a quick way to die and wonder what happened.
So I'm saying that you're doing the right thing. Learn one thing at a time. Now you're learning boat handling. You haven't learned not to shoot airplanes, that deck guns are great on sampans and next to useless against surface ships unless you have a half hour lollygagging on the surface to kill, that any armed merchant can outshoot you two to one, that escorts can outmaneuver just about any down the throat shot and if you shoot close enough to have a higher probability a miss is fatal for you or any meaningful evasion tactics. There is a whole world of discovery waiting in SH4 that you haven't scratched yet.
I haven't even mentioned manual targeting. For me, manual targeting is the heart and soul of SH4. The exhileration from one tanker sunk with manual targeting is better than 100,000 tons with auto targeting. But the biggest thrill of SH4 is downing a target you've never even laid eyes on with the conventional or Dick O'Kane sonar only techniques. The first time I sank a ship with sonar my wife thought I'd been bit by a scorpion.:rotfl:
Don't be taking our stuff as criticism of you: it's not. We're trying to tell you that this game grows with you to give you challenge and excitement on ever increasing levels as you grow with the game. You know, Dick O'Kane himself started out knowing nothing about submarines when he joined the Navy.