am I being a dweeb? ( dont answer that!)

[She-Wolf]

having got to somewhere just off the coast of UK, and being expected to knobble a good few ships before June 1st, I am pleased to hear some activity over to the right, and I want to know in what direction the ship is heading to plan my next move. WhaddIdo? In SH3 I can instruct the sonar guy to follow the sound and give me regular updates so I can work out where the enemy boat is and where I need to go to intercept it. As it is quite faint nothing has appeared on my chart in SH5 so although I can hear it and see where it is at on the sonar dial, I cant work out the position on the chart if I am standing there twiddling the wheel for minutes at a time - and anyway, that is what HE is there for. I WILL get the hang of this game but intuitive it is not.

[SteamWake]

Yes the use of the work Knobble quailifys you as a dweeb ;)

What I do is put a mark at the end of the contact line with the pencil... wait 10 or so minutes or untill the line moves. Place another mark. Now you have a general idea of which way he is sailing. Draw a line between the two marks and you have a general idea of his course.

I then surface and head in that general direction.

Sometime later I will dip again and make another mark and 'refine' my guess.

[kylania]

DarkWraith's MultiUI mod includes the old SH3 officer bar with "follow nearest contact" buttons on it.

You can also plot it out using the map. You can press M to toggle the nav map while on the sonar station, or just use the TAI map (tab key) to plot.

Or simply set your course to the bearing you heard the contact on, flank for a while, then submerge and listen for it again, that way you'll get a general idea of it's direction of travel.

Or use the hydrohunting tutorials so plot it's course, position and speed passively.

[She-Wolf]

oh dear, I'm a dweeb :(

um...contact line? there isn't anything on the chart to mark.
Kylania - gotcha, will do that - which is probably what you are saying too Steamwake :)
ps Kylania, I think I d/loaded the mod you refer to but couldn't get it to work. This is some weeks back mind. I will try again :) Ta

[SteamWake]

I dont know .. if you have map contacts off dill you still get the grey lines from the sonar on the map?

You do of course have to be submerged to hear them at all...

[Nico09]

Imo, the word "knobble" isn't used often enough.:O:

[She-Wolf]

Steamwake, submerged, yes - but even that is in doubt when so close to the english coast... if any planes came over I think they could see the shape, it is so shallow and bits of dear old Rotbile poke out of the briny in the swell, but yes, the sonar works. :up:

Nico09, you say the nicest things... :)

[Nico09]

She-Wolf, I have my moments, not very often mind you but they do surface, sometimes, especially after a long long long lonnnnnng night shift it appears. :shucks:

[She-Wolf]

Indeed Nico, bit time you got some shut-eye now I should suppose:zzz:

[Nico09]

Indeed Nico, bit time you got some shut-eye now I should suppose:zzz:


Can't at tthe moment, got a darn electrician coming round this morning to look at a dodgy socket.:cry: No matter I dont start till 23.00hrs tonight so plenty of time for a kip :)

[wambam]

Yeah.. I simply take a note of the Nav's bearing, surface if it's safe , head (speed rate tripled?) in what I think is the direction of the ship for a couple minutes, submerge and check again. That second time check will tell me if I am heading away from him or closer. Then I surface again and speed in the general direction, submerge and check. Usually that will give me a fair idea of his heading. Works most times but if it's a loner he might zigzag course and I might lose him; whereas if it's a convoy it will usually keep steady course, smug in being protected by warships (?).

". . . knobble. ." ? Is that in the dictionary? I checked and it simply says : " small knob". How do you "small knob" someone? Enlighten me, please. I am interested.

[TwistedAdonis]

I believe it's spelt 'nobble'.

[Webster]

oh dear, I'm a dweeb :(

ps Kylania, I think I d/loaded the mod you refer to but couldn't get it to work. This is some weeks back mind. I will try again :) Ta


FYI, you cant just drop it into jsgme

im told that the mod is needed to be "finished cooking" before you use it so you have to put the stuff you want into it to finish building it for it to be usable.

[robbo180265]

I believe it's spelt 'nobble'.

And it's slang for sabotage:03:

[kylania]

FYI, you cant just drop it into jsgme

im told that the mod is needed to be "finished cooking" before you use it so you have to put the stuff you want into it to finish building it for it to be usable.

Unzip the download file to your desktop, go into the MODS folder and copy what's there into your JSGME MODS folder. Enable and enjoy.

For default that's all you need to do. If you wanted to use the SH3/SH4 versions, or different periscope settings or any of the other advanced options then yes, you'll need to edit some files and move some files around, but that's all explained in the instructions.

[thorn69]

Only guys can be labeled dweebs. Girls are referred to as... ah hell, I don't even know?! :doh:

[robbo180265]

Only guys can be labeled dweebs. Girls are referred to as... ah hell, I don't even know?! :doh:

Dweebettes?

[wambam]

I believe it's spelt 'nobble'.



Yep. Acc. to Answers.com it is " Chiefly British (slang) ":
a. To disable a horse. (Don't own a horse so that's out. Wait a minute. My neighbor owns a horse. hmmm.).
b. Win someone over (Instead of trying to score with a girl, one should try to nobble her.hmmmm. doesn't sound quite right).
c. Get better of by devious means ( Applies to enemy tankers and warships, etc., in SH5 - Don't tell them you're coming).
d. Filch or steal ( Sneak into a British Port and nobble one of the above).
e. Kidnap ( How to nobble, I mean kidnap a merchant ship. Latest books on subject: Nobbling 101 and Nobbling for Dummies).

[She-Wolf]

what a helpful bunch you are - I get guidance on the game and how to get the mod working ( thanks chaps I will do that), correction on me spelling ( well-deserved), Nico comforting me on being condemned a dweeb(ette), though I probably am, so that's Ok - and further education on the etymology of 'nobble' - all before tea-time -well, nearly.

Talking of words with silent letters ( well, kind of), my best beloved, who is another word enthusiast, is fond of saying, in respect to such words "it is silent you know, like the P in Bath" took me a while to figure out what he was talking about...

enough of this needle nardle nur.

[Sailor Steve]

Only guys can be labeled dweebs. Girls are referred to as... ah hell, I don't even know?! :doh:
Blonde?

Sorry, couldn't resist.

[Jimbuna]

Dweebettes?

Or Dweebesses even :doh:

[She-Wolf]

Or Dweebesses even :doh:

ah, that sounds about right:salute:

[Jimbuna]

ah, that sounds about right:salute:

:sunny:

[wambam]

what a helpful bunch you are - I get guidance on the game and how to get the mod working ( thanks chaps I will do that), correction on me spelling ( well-deserved), Nico comforting me on being condemned a dweeb(ette), though I probably am, so that's Ok - and further education on the etymology of 'nobble' - all before tea-time -well, nearly.

Talking of words with silent letters ( well, kind of), my best beloved, who is another word enthusiast, is fond of saying, in respect to such words "it is silent you know, like the P in Bath" took me a while to figure out what he was talking about...

enough of this needle nardle nur.

". . . needle nardle nur." ? oops. I am being thrown again with that one. Here I was , thinking I spoke the King's English well(or is it the Queen's English?). Anyway we are all so glad you got some constructive help with your problem. We do have to have a sense of humor. It's necessary after being cooped up for weeks in those iron coffins.

[She-Wolf]

actually wambam, it should be 'needle,nardle, noo' as any Goon-fans will quickly confirm. I do not count myself in that bunch - it was a special sort of humour I think. Perhaps that means you have to be a special sort of person to appreciate it, but, although I liked some of the voices, and my gooney hubs often takes them off to amuse me, it wasn't really my sorta thing. If you are none the wiser for this ramble then I guess you are younger then the greybeards who remember them - or perhaps live somewhere their radio shows never reached.

[Jimbuna]

I remember them....I can recall my grandad telling me.

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[John Channing]

actually wambam, it should be 'needle,nardle, noo' as any Goon-fans will quickly confirm. I do not count myself in that bunch - it was a special sort of humour I think. Perhaps that means you have to be a special sort of person to appreciate it, but, although I liked some of the voices, and my gooney hubs often takes them off to amuse me, it wasn't really my sorta thing. If you are none the wiser for this ramble then I guess you are younger then the greybeards who remember them - or perhaps live somewhere their radio shows never reached.

How could anyone not be cracked up by Eccles?

JCC

[Webster]

a woman once told me that all women are only called two things,

correct or misunderstood because they are never wrong or mistaken

[theluckyone17]

You know my wife? :har:

The corollary: A man can either be happy or right. Gotta pick one or the other. I'm fairly sure that doing both would involve something bad happening to time/space/the universe. God imploding, or something like that. Bad ju-ju.

I was going for nobble = nom nom nom + gobble. Kinda gets the point across without being too redundant.

Wambam's (http://www.subsim.com/radioroom/showpost.php?p=1361958&postcount=11) got the right tactical answer, as far as I'm concerned.