More n00b questions

[clayp]

:oops: Is there any kind of tutorial on the use of the recognition book and is there a way to know what kind of ship you are looking at through the attack periscope?

[AVGWarhawk]

Not really Clay. I usually look at the smoke stack, bow shape and stern shape. With these you can narrow down what it is not in the book usually leaving 2-3 that it could be. I then look more closely for traits of the target as opposed to the book. Also, if the ship is on an angle you can click the tiny picture on the top right hand corner of the page and the angle will change on the page of the ship you believe it might be.

[Hitman]

Here are some quick tips from the procedures I use:

1.- Determine wether merchant or warship:roll:

2.- Merchant: Determine if tanker or freighter. Tankers are clearly lower profile, not as tall as merchants and usually longer for the same tonnage

3.- Once the above is done, these things (In order) can help you narrowing an ID:

a) Number of masts
b) Composite (One command bridge and funnel in one piece) or split (Command bridge is separated from the funnel) superstructure
c) Funnel width & size
d) Cranes in the masts or simply antennae

The real ONI208J book had all merchants indexed with prefixes, as someone posted long ago in the mods forum (Sorry can't remember who was): All merchant ships In the ONI 208-J bppks are facing LEFT. This is not arbitrary. the convention to sort ships had to do with: their engine (stack) position (mid or aft); superstructure layout (passenger, composite, split); bow and stern shaps and general conformation; finally, they coded the masts, kingposts, and funnels (M, K, F). This was deon from front to back, and for ease of use they put the bows left. The book was then sorted using those forulas as primary headers.


So the officer at the scope simply called in order the letter representative for what he was seeing from front to back of the ship, and that helped the tracking party seek in the index of the book.

Hope that helps:up:

[clayp]

Thank you very much guy's....:)

[popeye]

holy hanna, i can't even find the book, in the game. i was quite used to the way it was in SH3.

good to know it's there though.