Map & Deck gun woes - What am I doing wrong?

[frau kaleun]

Originally Posted by desirableroasted

The sound contact is actually quite accurate... pretty much on the end of that line is where your target is. Mark the tips of the line over several minutes and you will establish a pretty good path for the ship.

Yep, and keep in mind that if you only make contact with a ship over the hydrophones, that's all you will get. It will not show up as a square on the map until you make visual contact with it, i.e., get close enough to see it from the bridge (if you surface) or through the periscope. If you are tracking it visually and maintaining contact that way, you will see the icon and see it moving. If all you've got is a sound contact from the hydrophones, you'll have to track it using the bearing lines as desirableroasted describes above.

The square icons that show up on the map for ships that you yourself have not seen are from the contact reports sent in to HQ and passed on to the front in case anyone out there is within range to find and intercept them. They will not "move" on the map unless more intel is received updating their positions over time, even though the ships they represent are continuing to move. If you want to hunt those, you have to look at the time the contact was reported, estimated speed and heading, and try to plot the ship's course and likely position at a later time just from that.