A few more questions...

[Naga]

Yeah, I opened the map .jpg and just use alt-tab to look at it.

A streak of bad weather is now hindering my convoy hunting progress. I can locate the convoy via hydrophone, but can't accurately hit it due to high waves, rain, and fog. More often than not, the enemy (using radar, I assume, since it's mid-late 1942) will start shooting me before I can see them, so I dive and start the whole process over again.

Now that I have the basic hang of the game (85% realism, everything but manual targeting) I think I will start over and use the GWX mod. It's getting kind of tiring going out on these long patrols and not doing much of anything besides chasing convoys I can't see, let alone attack.

I'm also now using SH3 Commander. If I turn the realtime time compression setting up to say, 1024, will that help me spot surface ships before I am right on top of them while at 1024x "warp speed?" I'm just getting tired of staring at the computer screen for hours on end, only to return from a patrol empty-handed.