Preferred targeting method

[meduza]

What is your preferred targeting method?
I usually use the first one.

[Puster Bill]

OK, file me in the "something else" category.

I use Periscope observations, or occasionally radar and/or active sonar, and Hitman's Kriegsmarine whiz-wheel. I enter the data manually into the vorhaltrechner.

I don't plot contacts, either on the in-game map or seperately on a maneuvering board or graph paper, although I have done all three in the past.

[Tango589]

I'm bone-idle and let my officers do the working out. What are they there for if not to do their job?:hmm:

[Chisum]

Nothing, I'm the captain and the captain makes not calculation.
:p

[U-46 Commander]

I agree with Chisum. After all, I am the great and mighty captain, and i allow my officers the pleasure of running the necessary calculations.:smug:

[Sailor Steve]

I like the idea of letting the officers do the work, but unfortunately they are way too perfect for someone who considers himself a realism buff.

I'm slowly learning U-Jagd tools, which has an on-screen version of the whiz-wheel.

[PsFr]

I let my officer do the work as did most real kaleuns but always bring my touch if i don't quite agree with him , i use all realism option ticked except this one , simply because i can never estimate the distance to the ship accurately (hardest for me , especially in bad wheather ) , for the angle i'm often about right as i always try everything to flank him and manoeuver to have a good angle (80-110° ) but when i'm not in "ideal "position i struggle to be accurate , and for the speed i sometimes make mistakes too but it's the easiest part so i usually correct angle and speed when i don't agree with the weapon officer (which is quite rare i have to say ) .

[Siara]

Olc mod, 100% reality. I like to do it myself. More satisfaction.
I worked my vista to accept the GWX and all the extrass / took me 6 months / but unfortunately no Olc special runs on it without black sky.
If Olc only everything runns fine.:hmm:

[Randomizer]

1WO (aka Weapons Officer) does all the surface attacks; submerged attacks I calculate and input the data myself. All gunnery is done by the crew, I never man the guns myself but since I usually patrol in 1944 and later, all this talk of guns and surface attacking belong in the past. However, I try to keep the 1WO busy when patrolling the Black Sea...
Good Hunting

[onelifecrisis]

For me it's a combination of 1 and 3, but I voted 3 of course. ;)

[badwolf]

Depends on situation, methods 1,3 & 4. The last one is guesswork by estimating, using ships visual orientation, usually close range.

[Rommer69]

I use the first method, altough sometimes i get some help from the periscope.:arrgh!: Weapons officer only to direct the guns in rough seas.

[Sensekhmet]

I like the idea of letting the officers do the work, but unfortunately they are way too perfect for someone who considers himself a realism buff.



I'm surprised you say that as my WO seems to miss around half the time :stare: (and yes, I do have my hatches opened in time)

[tomfon]

I voted 3.:lol:

[Pisces]

I do have the OLC Gui mod, and I love it to bits. But I must admit I spend most of my time drawing on the navmap. I.e. drawing hydrophone bearings and attempting to fit a course in between them. Once I have that I try to draw a speed diagram to get an intercept course, maintain distance/'go roundabout' or for avoidance. And when visual contact is made simply taking my watch-officer's range/bearing reports and plot them. So by the time I am ahead of the target (at 90 degrees) I don't have to look through the scope anymore to get an AOB, speed or range. But I rely heavily on the built-in Attackdisk and Range/AOB calculator in OLC's Gui to get those.

[sharkbit]

I'm doing auto-targeting now, but I'm getting the itch to move toward manual. I'd probably use the notebook method as well as getting some information the nav map and entering it into the computer.
:)