Hi,
There are some interesting mods out there, but note that Cold Waters is not like the Silent Hunter series, CW plays perfectly fine and is fairly realistic out of the box. I would suggest a new player play it stock for a while until you get a feel for the game and what you want to tweak before diving straight into a large mod.
Note there are no Russian/Chinese campaigns in the game, but you can play them in single missions.
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