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Old 10-03-17, 02:03 PM   #16
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I guess these techniques refer or should be related to 0° gyro angle attacks and the "four bearing" methods, right? I mean, for a u-boat that is easy to do without a radar as their hydrophone had a range for convoys around 30-50 NM which gives you enough time to determine course and speed.

Is that true that American hydrophone was so much less capable than German's by only being capable to pick up ships at 10K yards? the four bearing method and 0° gyro attacks by hydrophone listening are possible for a very slow moving ship. Late in the war subs had radar, but before radar, how was that possible?
Observation. I do it in an S boat in SH4. A lot depends upon where you are versus where a target is when sighted, but it is possible to "get in position" in plenty of time, under the proper circumstances. You do miss more opportunities than you get though. My only issue is that an S boat has a ~slightly~ more difficult time getting away from a 1k yard or less shot though...
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Old 10-10-17, 08:33 AM   #17
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Well, in SH4, the Game / Data / Sea / Ship / Ship.cfg file has the "stats" for the vessel, though they don't use most of those in the game, and they are not accurate, as you've discovered. CapnScurvy, if he does an OTC mod for FotRSU, would most likely take the catalog of ships at that time, and attempt to find data that's more accurate for his mod. I have no idea what his "source" would be, but that's the only way to get the real info, is to research and gather. I'm sure any of the existing OTC mods would have a percentage of the vessels in FotRSU, though not all of them.
My "source" is the actual game itself. Nothing in a "real life reference book" can be used to replicate measurements if a game measurement is different than what the real world measurement is stated as. AND, that's exactly what you have with this game.

A meter is not a true meter, a yard does not measure 36 inches (3 feet), and so on. You're barking up the wrong tree to think you can use "real life" measurements with this game ,and add up to true accurate measurements......won't happen!
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In order for OTC to work correctly, CapnScurvy actually makes a mission, puts the ship in it and measures it, ship by ship to have the game recognition manual and TDC have the exact measurements. That means if you import new ships in your game OTC won't have the data.

But real ships have nothing to do with it. OTC works because its data exactly matches the ship models in the game.
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I guess these techniques refer or should be related to 0° gyro angle attacks and the "four bearing" methods, right? I mean, for a u-boat that is easy to do without a radar as their hydrophone had a range for convoys around 30-50 NM which gives you enough time to determine course and speed.

Is that true that American hydrophone was so much less capable than German's by only being capable to pick up ships at 10K yards? the four bearing method and 0° gyro attacks by hydrophone listening are possible for a very slow moving ship. Late in the war subs had radar, but before radar, how was that possible?
4-bearing methods are totally unrelated. They might not even be historically accurate used in the game. At least, I haven't heard any of such in all the discussions here on subsim. Just because the game provides bearings in degrees doesn't mean the real hardware could pinpoint a target that well. We can use it because mathematics is ageless, and the user interface developers were kind to us.
The target being far or close does not help in determining a proper solution. For bearing-only methods to work well you need precisely defined bearing angle in reasonable time frames. You can do with less precise bearing if the time interval is increased. Or else it just tells you the target is going N-E-S-W-ish/in a wide arc/halfway omni-directional. The knowledge of sound propagation physics and technology level just was't so cooperative as in this digital/electronic age. Though I would guess it possible for them in that time to make a mechanical analog calculator for it. It's the input part that makes it unreliable.

I supposed the constant bearing method comes closest to '0-gyro angle' as that is how Dick O'kane's method is usually executed. But it doesn't have to. As long as the visual 'firing cue' bearing of the periscope is offset from the chosen torpedo track or gyro angle by the right amount of lead (generally speaking it only depends on target speed, AOB and torpedo speed), then it should hit despite the range of the target. (caveat any parallax correction due to the torpedo track curve and periscope offset from the torpedo tubes) If the target is further away, it also has farther to travel to the impact point. And so does the torpedo have the same time to get there! With the lead set up properly you only have to wait for the target to pass the periscope cue line. That is the concept of 'constant bearing'. The fact that 0-gyro angle makes setting this up more easily and avoids the torpedo-track-curve correction is the reason that this is the popularly choice of doing so.
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