So I'm the worst sailor to ever boot up a naval game...

[Capt_Confoozed]

...at least I think so.

Even after reading every scrap of info I could on how to track/plot target courses (including the excellent stuff in the SH3 wiki!), I still don't understand it. It's not that I "get it" but don't do well at it; I actually don't understand, at all.

Say I'm heading due North, bearing 0...and my sonarman calls out a contact bearing 340. To me that means he's 20 degrees to port, i.e. west. A few minutes later, the sonarman then calls out same contact now bearing 322. Ok, now he's 38 degrees to port. But heading which way? South-to-north? East-to-West? Somewhere in between? How can I tell? All the protractor/compass/ruler/angles/markings advice doesn't compute for me, I'm afraid; I just can't seem to conceptualize it. I can't get it to work in my head, much less in the game.

Am I doomed to go back to using those on-map marker lines?