User Guide

MAIN MENU
From Sub Command’s Main menu you can:
■ set your player name.
■ select single, campaign or multiplayer missions.
■ access the Mission Editor to create or edit your own scenarios.
■ view U.S. Naval Institute data on the ships and weapons available in Sub Command.
■ access the game’s options. In Options you adjust game,sound and 3D settings, and view or
reassign hot key designations, and set multiplayer options.
From the main menu you can also view the record of your current game persona in the Player’s Log.
CHOOSE PLAYER NAME
To choose a player name:
1. Following the opening video, the Main menu appears.
2. Enter your Captain’s name in the Edit box at the upper right of the screen. Previously created
Captain names appear in the drop-down list. If you have already created a name, click that
name in the list.Your Captain’s careers are automatically tracked by the game.See Player’s Log
on p. 28.
3. After you create or choose a player name for the mission, select the Main menu item you wish to
access.
MISSIONS
Clicking on Missions in the Main menu takes you to the Missions screen. From here you select the
type of mission you want to play,Training, Single or Saved and select a specific mission title. Single
missions are shown by default.A brief description of the selected mission is available in the
Mission Description window.
You must also select a submarine to command in the mission.This is done from the Submarine
Selection window in the upper right corner. The submarines that are available to command differ
from mission to mission so you must select the mission first.A tasking overview for the selected
controllable submarine is seen in the Tasking Window.Tasking may be different depending on the
submarine selected. Some missions have only one submarine available to command some have
more.The submarine selection process is explained below.
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