Anyone use their own stopwatch or chronometer?

[f4wildweasel]

Surely I can't be the only guy who does this...
So when I'm playing SH3 or SH4, and I'm about to fire a torpedo at a target ship, sometimes I'll look at the estimated time to impact before firing, and then start my own timer as I fire. Granted, instead of a ticking watch in my hand it's my phone running an analogue stopwatch app, but you get the idea (I DO intend to buy an actual analogue stopwatch/chronometer one day, assuming I can find one that's reliable enough but doesn't cost a fortune...) I like watching the target ship (especially when I'm on the bridge during nighttime surface attacks) and then be able just to glance down at the watch in my hand to see how much longer I should expect to wait. I know you can put the watch display on the screen, but then it's just a watch, you're not actually holding it. I don't know... maybe I'm just crazy?

[razark]

I've seen a few people posting that they do use a stopwatch. I don't usually, because sometimes real life breaks in, but I have used an analog one occasionally. The real ticking watch does add to the immersion factor.

Edit:
And just for the record, blowing a speed estimate because you paused the game and left the watch running? It sucks.

[FIREWALL]

Yup :yep: An old Heuer my dad gave me when I was preeteen.

[Ducimus]

I have a digital stopwatch, Ive used it with SH4 ALOT, but not neccessarily for timing torpedo's. :haha:

[TorpX]

Yeah, I have a digital one that works pretty well. (A ticking mechanical one would be better, of course.)

I also enter the actual torpedo run time into the log, so I know how good my firing solution was. It should be close to the predicted time. If I miss, I do a post mortum, and make every effort to figure out why. (:damn:,...:haha:)

[f4wildweasel]

And just for the record, blowing a speed estimate because you paused the game and left the watch running? It sucks.
Yeah or sometimes I'll forget that I'm watching a run and hit the time compression up for a moment but that's all it takes to throw it off.

[commandosolo2009]

I use a stopwatch for bearing to bearing speed calculation, timing speed with cross-wire method, timing separation of ships in a convoy, probably most reliable and legible than in-game stopwatch... mine is a digital-age stopwatch. So, yeah, I use one. You're alright dude..

[Daniel Prates]

The main problem with the in-game thing: I donn't recall the game's stopwatch to be actually stoppable! It just gives you a second needle to compare. When the seconds needle runs over the mark needle, impact is close by.

[Anthony W.]

The main problem with the in-game thing: I donn't recall the game's stopwatch to be actually stoppable! It just gives you a second needle to compare. When the seconds needle runs over the mark needle, impact is close by.

Last night mine was almost a minute off. Not sure what happened to make my Mk.23 run so slowly...

[Jan Kyster]

...I DO intend to buy an actual analogue stopwatch/chronometer one day, assuming I can find one that's reliable enough but doesn't cost a fortune...Here's mine:
http://i189.photobucket.com/albums/z15/subject_rod/Watch.jpg

Bought it on eBay from a guy in Ukraine, fairly sure it was from seller Ussr-West...
Can't remember exact price, but it was some $20 only :up:

Check this out... http://shop.ebay.com/i.html?_trkparms=65%253A12%257C66%253A3%257C39%253 A1%257C72%253A5049&rt=nc&_nkw=russian+stopwatch&_sticky=1&_trksid=p3286.c0.m14&_sop=15&_sc=1

[razark]

Here's mine:
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That's where I got mine. Looks just like that, except mine doesn't say "Made in USSR" at the bottom. It says "<some Cyrillic stuff> CCCP". I'm guessing it means the same thing.

I think we might have been discussing them when I decided to get mine.

Edit:
Mine looks like this. The hand gives you a good sense of scale, too.
http://www.subsim.com/radioroom/picture.php?albumid=442&pictureid=4481

[f4wildweasel]

thanks for the link! Definitely something to consider. For a moment I was thinking "Yeah that looks nice, but what about a German one?" so I do a search for that and take a look at the prices... hmm... maybe I'll opt for a CCCP one after all...

[Jan Kyster]

I think we might have been discussing them when I decided to get mine.The "Ulimate doorbell!":rock: -thread! http://174.123.69.202/~subsimc/radioroom/showthread.php?t=166970
thanks for the link! Definitely something to consider. For a moment I was thinking "Yeah that looks nice, but what about a German one?" so I do a search for that and take a look at the prices... hmm... maybe I'll opt for a CCCP one after all...Oh! I of course went for an authentic original WWII real deal Fleet Boat kinda clock...
Like a Hamilton or so... but decided I would rather save the dollars for a Nikon D300S...
Still saving btw. :shifty:

A russian one do just fine! :D Feels very nice and solid. Is close to be indestructible!

[Platapus]

I bought a manual stopwatch also. It helps with the immersion of the game for me.

I use it mostly for speed calculations.