Getting started problems

[PurpleAtom]

Thanks for your response sailor steve A few things....

When you say 90 degrees, i take that to mean the bow of my uboat facing the port or starboard of the target? Do torpedos change direction in flight??

Is it ok to fire torpedo's while the boat is in motion? While in auto mode, will i have to adjust for this in anyway?

Is there a keyboard shortcut for follow plotted course?

I was following a search pattern and suddenly stopped. As far as i could tell this was because my crew was tired? The engine room crew had red exclamations next to them. I sent them to crew quarters and they were ok again soon enough and put them back in the engine room. Do the red exclamation marks mean they are tired?

Think im gonna stay on auto firing for a while until I get navigation and intercepting down. Im using the very helpful guide in the newbie thread for this

Thanks for everyone's help. Without this website, I don't think I could figure this game out!

[Sailor Steve]

Originally Posted by PurpleAtom

When you say 90 degrees, i take that to mean the bow of my uboat facing the port or starboard of the target?

Exactly.

Do torpedos change direction in flight??

They will make a quick course change if the Gyro Angle is not '0'. As I said, the way I do it is to have Manual enabled, but use the WE as a cheat. Unfortunately he is perfect, so I take several readings, never use him for identification until the target is close enough to recognize myself, and put the 'scope up several times just as I would have to do if I did it myself. I'm still cheating, but this evens the odds for the enemy a little bit, and I keep telling myself at least it 'feels' real, which is all I'm after anyway.

Is it ok to fire torpedo's while the boat is in motion? While in auto mode, will i have to adjust for this in anyway?

Submerged? In real life they couldn't hover anyway. They were always in motion. In Auto mode the computer updates the solution constantly, so as long as the tubes are open you can shoot any time you want.

Is there a keyboard shortcut for follow plotted course?

Not that I know of, but then I hardly use the keyboard for anything except the very basics.

I was following a search pattern and suddenly stopped. As far as i could tell this was because my crew was tired? The engine room crew had red exclamations next to them. I sent them to crew quarters and they were ok again soon enough and put them back in the engine room. Do the red exclamation marks mean they are tired?

Yes. You need to change the entire crew out every so often. Watch and engine crew tire faster than control room crew and the torpedo rooms are the worst of all. This was fixed in SH4, which is much better in most departments.

What you need is SH3 Commander. I won't bore you with the list of all the things it does, but shutting off crew fatigue entirely is one of them. It's an external stand-alone tool that works with any supermod.

Thanks for everyone's help. Without this website, I don't think I could figure this game out!

I originally found it while looking for help with SH2. It's a living, breathing treasure trove.

[sublynx]

Originally Posted by PurpleAtom

Is it ok to fire torpedo's while the boat is in motion? While in auto mode, will i have to adjust for this in anyway?

As Steve said a submarine moves all the time. (Just as an airplane in Il-2 does). However only move forwards or backwards at the exact moment when you shoot. Making a move to the left or to the right while hitting the fire button will spoil your solution at least in manual targeting. I'm not sure about Auto targeting.

[frau kaleun]

Originally Posted by sublynx

As Steve said a submarine moves all the time. (Just as an airplane in Il-2 does). However only move forwards or backwards at the exact moment when you shoot. Making a move to the left or to the right while hitting the fire button will spoil your solution at least in manual targeting. I'm not sure about Auto targeting.

It can be problematic with Auto targeting as well, at least in my experience. I had a bad habit of ordering a final little turn to get myself in better position and then firing off the eel while the rudder was still a ways over to port or starboard. Found my luck was much better if I waited until it was back amidships.