Newbie looking for etchasketch's AoB wheel

[VonDorkGruber]

I'm a SH3 player looking to make the jump to manual targeting, and am trying to find the AoB/Targeting wheel by etchasketch, as mentioned in Wazoo's targeting tutorial.

Anybody know?
TIA

[Puster Bill]

My advice to you is instead of getting the AOB wheel, go ahead and download Hitman's Kriegsmarine Whiz-Wheel. The thread is here:

http://www.subsim.com/radioroom/showthread.php?t=114351

This is the side of the wheel that would correspond to the wheel you reference:

http://img179.imageshack.us/img179/5618/dsc00014um0.jpg

It's based on what U-boat commanders actually used. Here is a picture of an actual Kriegsmarine AOB/Course wheel:
http://aycu29.webshots.com/image/40188/2005299641005346371_rs.jpg


The bonus is that the backside of Hitman's wheel is the circular slide rule/"Omnimeter" that roughly corresponds to the US SACF/IS-WAS version. It wasn't present in real life, it appears the Germans used linear slide rules for their calculations, but it is *MUCH* easier to make a circular slide rule than a linear one (trust me!). Here's a pic of the backside:
http://img185.imageshack.us/img185/5185/dsc00013ym5.jpg

There is an excellent set of instructions on how to use Hitman's wheel here:

http://www.subsim.com/radioroom/showthread.php?t=126824

You can use it to find AOB using a couple different methods, target course, find your distance to target track and the speed you need to get to an optimum firing position, the speed of the target in a couple different ways, and a bunch of other very useful things.

[joegrundman]

what he said, or you can use the ingame versions in the U-jagd tools mod, also found in the OLC-GUI which is a stickied thread on the SH3 mod workshop

[Puster Bill]

If you have your heart set on Etchasketch's wheel, you can get it here:
http://www.subsim.com/radioroom/showthread.php?t=108253

[VonDorkGruber]

I'll check out the links. Thanks for the info, all!

VDG