Aiming points on recon manual

[TomcatMVD]

Hi guys!
I was performing a surface "coup de grace" attack on a C-2 yesterday, and when looking through my UZO, y actually found out that on the recognition manual, on the image of the ship, I had signaled the "vulnerable" spots, three of them actually, fuel bunkers, kiel and engine compartment.
I've never seen that before nor was I able to reproduce that, so, question is, do you guys know how and why I was able to display that? I don't do that many surface attacks so maybe it's always on the UZO?
Thanks!

[Albrecht Von Hesse]

If you are within 1,000 meters, with an AOB somewhere around 90 degrees plus or minus 20 degrees, with a bearing of zero degrees plus or minus approximately 20 degrees (in other words, ideal positioning) the vulnerability areas will appear.

[TomcatMVD]

Great, thanks! I thought it might have had something to do with it, I should have specified my location relative to the target.
Thanks mate!!!

[Fusek]

And if you lock the uzo or periscope and click on one of the boxes, the torp will hit that spot :)

[Avatar]

This is great information. I never knew this before. I'm going to post this at the "hints and tricks" thread.

[Rwolf]

Also make sure to open the tube (Q) before firing, or the delay can cause it to miss the sweet spot.

[danlisa]

Those zones in the Recog Manual, don't mean squat if you're using GWX 2.0 (or other version of GWX).:rotfl:

The vunerable zones are still there but you will not get a critical hit from targeting those zones.

[Nerazzurri]

Also make sure to open the tube (Q) before firing

And close it after, otherwise the torpedo crew will get their feet wet :know:

[TomcatMVD]

Thanks guys! As per which version I'm currently running, well, I'm on stock SHIII, is my first campaign, so, I'm not playing DiD neither (yet):oops: .
I am on manual targeting though... a great way to do things!

[rik007]

I never noticed it and will check it next time. Mostly I have no time to check these things during a 90-degree AOB situation as in a regular convoy attack you are pretty busy making sure that all targets will be hit in sync as much as possible.