A noob's thread...

[magic452]

The ships you had is listed in the book, you may have been looking in the wrong book.

When you bring up the recognition manual it says Japan, this is for warships only. Click the arrow to the right and it should say Merchants. Open that and you will find your ship. A large old split is a big ship and often will take three hits to sink unless you hit the right parts.

With auto targeting you can lock on the target with the L key and the periscope will fallow the target. You will lock on the center and you can use the gyro angle offset to hit different parts of the target. That is why you can deviate the trop. track a couple of degrees. If you don't lock than fallow the target with the scope and you should hit what you are looking at when you fire the trop. Like a cross hair.

All this is assuming the target stays at the same speed and course.
Auto targeting works good for a constant speed and course but if the target is maneuvering it's not so hot. That is when you will need to lead the target with the gyro angle offset wheel.

By the way nice shooting, stay with it you will get good at it very soon.

Hope this helps
Magic