Introduction: Groundpounder trying out his sea-legs.

Marinesko · 04-01-09, 06:01 PM

Ahoy all. First I want to thank all of you who have made videos and PDFs on subjects such as manual targetting and plotting. I am a newcomer to the genre, and naval warfare for me is sort of a last "frontier".

Thanks to your videos and tutorials, within three days of buying the game(I haven't had a lot of time to play), I was already able to start manually targetting in the training scenario- trying different methods(e.g. spread vs. three/four torpedoes in the same hole) and generally pounding the crap out of the Mogami. Tonight I started my first patrol and thanks to another tutorial video on here I was able to intercept and take out my first merchantman manually. Truly, every hit via manual targetting is more satisfying than any kind of kill in other wargames(although any catastrophic kill on a Tiger in Combat Mission: Barbarossa is always nice).

What I wanted to ask, is if we could have a thread of "Stupid Questions" for those like me who are new to naval warfare. Most of the training threads deal with targetting issues, but I am looking for more basic stuff about navigation- how to do a patrol, slipping through destroyer screens and attacking convoys, that sort of thing.

What do you think?

04-01-09, 06:01 PM	#1
Marinesko Seaman Join Date: Mar 2009 Location: Moscow Posts: 32 Downloads: 2 Uploads: 0	Introduction: Groundpounder trying out his sea-legs. Ahoy all. First I want to thank all of you who have made videos and PDFs on subjects such as manual targetting and plotting. I am a newcomer to the genre, and naval warfare for me is sort of a last "frontier". Thanks to your videos and tutorials, within three days of buying the game(I haven't had a lot of time to play), I was already able to start manually targetting in the training scenario- trying different methods(e.g. spread vs. three/four torpedoes in the same hole) and generally pounding the crap out of the Mogami. Tonight I started my first patrol and thanks to another tutorial video on here I was able to intercept and take out my first merchantman manually. Truly, every hit via manual targetting is more satisfying than any kind of kill in other wargames(although any catastrophic kill on a Tiger in Combat Mission: Barbarossa is always nice). What I wanted to ask, is if we could have a thread of "Stupid Questions" for those like me who are new to naval warfare. Most of the training threads deal with targetting issues, but I am looking for more basic stuff about navigation- how to do a patrol, slipping through destroyer screens and attacking convoys, that sort of thing. What do you think?