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Originally Posted by Brett Sinclair

I - finally - bought the game on Thursday, I cannot even tell where the torpedo that eventually kills me came from, there are just too many...

That was my M.O. initially - shoot at everything, turn and run, let the game sort it out. Especially when firing missiles at escort surface ships in a convoy at the beginning of an engagement; a lot of times the missiles do not destroy the target and out come the helicopters and the air dropped torpedoes. One can quickly get swarmed - a missile launch is a dead give away as to where you are.

As my application of less dramatic tactics evolved, I can now keep some of the engagements manageable and occasionally sink a few subs without a shot fired in my direction (at least anywhere near me). Surface ships always have something to say about you shooting at them.

I no longer find it absolutely necessary to start and finish a mission in the least amount of time and get enjoyment from the game when I take my time, getting to a location that is advantageous to me such as a seabed drop off from where I can pop up take a shot and then drop back down, as I "let slip the cichlids of war."

You'll get here too after the "shoot at everything with everything" phase wears off.