Got my first manual targeting kill!

[Drakken]

Two torpedoes fired under keel against a Japanese Passenger Liner in convoy inside patrol zone off South China Sea. Despite difficulty in estimating range (see below), I fired my two eels anyway. One passed under the transport's keel, but the other blew up right under the middle of the keel. After a minute or so, it blew up and began to sink. First manual kill ever! :up:

I must admit I was getting quite desperate at times, because I had difficulty estimating the right range with the stadimeter (aiming at the topmasts at 5,000 feet distance isn't as easy as they say...), and I was estimating bearing and speed way too soon after using the stadimeter several times. Now I'll use a three minute rule between each take to properly estimate these information.

Seems I am now part of the real submariners' club! :|\\

[ReallyDedPoet]

Two torpedoes fired under keel against a Japanese Passenger Liner in convoy inside patrol zone off South China Sea. Despite difficulty in estimating range (see below), I fired my two eels anyway. One passed under the transport's keel, but the other blew up right under the middle of the keel. After a minute or so, it blew up and began to sink. First manual kill ever! :up:

I must admit I was getting quite desperate at times, because I had difficulty estimating the right range with the stadimeter (aiming at the topmasts at 5,000 feet distance isn't as easy as they say...), and I was estimating bearing and speed way too soon after using the stadimeter several times. Now I'll use a three minute rule between each take to properly estimate these information.

Seems I am now part of the real submariners' club! :|\\

Very nice, congrats :up: MT makes all the difference in the game :yep:


RDP

[Seaman_Hornsby]

Arrrrrr, another manual targeting convert! :arrgh!:

Keep practicing, and soon you'll wonder how you ever played "auto" at all. Congrats on that first kill! :up:

[MorganThePirate]

Great. I love MT. Now you can enjoy the 3 w's, wine, weather and women, and live the good sailor adventure. :arrgh!:

[Snuffy]

Congrats!

The more you practice it the better you get.

[capt_frank]

Make sure you turn off that external camera also!

I recently made the switch to everything checked except fuel and map updates and it's a totally new game.

Havin' fun now!

[spidair]

Auto targeting? What do you mean? :p

I learned manual targeting in SH3 and haven't yet played SH4 on other than realistic... exept for 1 time, with a Gato sub on the first mission, when I turned on external camera just to view the senics...

I love this kind of game, it is challenging as h**l and give you those really creepy moments when the sound go: *ping*--------*ping*------*ping*--*ping*-*ping-ping-ping-ping* wrrrrr.....

So learning how to MT is really lifting this game up from the rest....

[Rockin Robbins]

The external camera rocks!!! I'll give up my external camera when they pry my cold, dead fingers from the keyboard. :arrgh!: If you use it to cheat shame on you!:down:

[AVGWarhawk]

Getting that first kill by manual targeting is ALMOST better than a 6 pack and pizza. Puts a whole new meaning on the game really. Nice job!

[capt_frank]

Getting that first kill by manual targeting is ALMOST better than a 6 pack and pizza. Puts a whole new meaning on the game really. Nice job!

I'm glad that you stressed the word "ALMOST"...:p

[Von Hinten]

Congrats on the sinking m8, you've now got 1 more than I have ... :up:

[jazman]

It's very satisfying to get a manual targeting kill. It's also maddening when you miss. Because you've done the work and been careful and still you screwed up somehow, and spent a lot of time, and now a juicy target has gone by. Part of the game.

Recently I found a small convoy at night and set up a nice O'Kane shot--but submerged. As the lead ship crossed my scope crosshair, I fired. It was night and I was mistakenly firing at a ship in the far column, instead of the ship I had targeted in the near column! As I fired the last of my spread of three (Porpoise, only four forward), I noticed the bow of a closer ship--my original target--heaving into view. It was just hard to tell in the dark. With a proper line up my fish should still have hit that ship (90-degree AOB makes the range irrelevant), but they didn't--I'm playing the hardcore torpedo mod, so who knows what happened?

With my last torpedo I fired on my proper target, and it hit; even with NSM it broke the ship in two (an old medium European split). Perfect hit, elation! It can be a manic-depressive world.

[brandtryan]

Congratulations! Now you're in a "simulation" , no longer just a "game".

[howler93]

Congrats, Drak! Far more satisfying isn't it? Fun to play with all the PK stuff too!

[Shyzar]

I just got my first Manuel TDC kill. But it was completely by accident. I was firing at a column of ships in a convoy, I underestimated the range and speed and hit a ship in the second column of that convoy.

[ChrisG2100]

A big congrats! :up: I just got my first MT kill the other night and it was great.

[SemperFi]

I just started hitting MT myself. Very cool aspect of this sim as it takes strategy one step further. I think setting up yourself up in a nice spot while not being detected is the tricky part for me. Turning the Japanese fleet into an underwater museum is the easy part;). Like RR said,the last thing to go on my game play settings is going to be external camera....it's just too damn good to let go.

[Drakken]

Gah, I'm so tired of miscalculating the range!

I'm in front of a carrier task force heading for Java. The carriers are too close to prepare my solution, so I aim for the next best thing, a Maya heavy cruiser 8,000 feet away. I use the stadimeter, aiming at the highest point I can see, but my calculation vary each time by 2,000 + or -! :damn:

And since the task force is heading directly for me, I don't have a lot of leeway. I've been reloading my game 10 times to aim the best I can, with no avail. :down:

[Shyzar]

Are, you sure it was a Maya? because if not, the range can be way off.

If you are sure it's a Maya, what I would do is play with map contacts on, and when you measure range, check with the attack map, adjust your range accordingly, and see where your errors are.

If that still doesn't help, make sure, that the second image, is right on the masts.

And if none of this works, just stick with it, I was thinking of quitting Manuel TDC just yesterday, but I'm determined to be able to play without targeting assistance.

[mrbeast]

To: Lt Cmdr Drakken
From: SUBCOMPAC

Congrats on first manual sinking X Keep up good work X Please note in all future comms torpedoes should be refered to as 'fish' not 'Eels' in accordance with USN parlance X When next in officer's mess have beer on house X Good hunting Skipper X

[kapitan_zur_see]

Two torpedoes fired under keel against a Japanese Passenger Liner in convoy inside patrol zone off South China Sea. Despite difficulty in estimating range (see below), I fired my two eels anyway. One passed under the transport's keel, but the other blew up right under the middle of the keel. After a minute or so, it blew up and began to sink. First manual kill ever! :up:

I must admit I was getting quite desperate at times, because I had difficulty estimating the right range with the stadimeter (aiming at the topmasts at 5,000 feet distance isn't as easy as they say...), and I was estimating bearing and speed way too soon after using the stadimeter several times. Now I'll use a three minute rule between each take to properly estimate these information.

Seems I am now part of the real submariners' club! :|\\

congrats ;)
Welcome in the world of obsessed subsimmers lol
Manual targeting or nothing my boy! even in the middle of a night, with not even a glitch of light outside, and through 15 windspeed with the periscope moving lie crazy lol :arrgh!: