Making a Quadrant Calculator

[Gustav Schiebert]

Some of you might remember the KTBs I made. Well part of keeping a real war diary is plotting a 4-figure KM grid - AM5217 rather than AM52 which is marked on the game. Usually I look at the map, get a ruler out, and work out where I am on the screen to get my position.

I could do this by measuring the entire grid and dividing it into 9x9 squares. So, if the grid is 9cm long along the x axis, and my sub is, say, 1.5cm along, I know it's in the second column of squares. Do it for the y axis and you have your position. Make sense? No? Okay...

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Here you can see, I've measured the size of a grid square at a specified zoom level.

Then I've cut that shape out of an index card.

The whole thing gets put through a laminator.

Then a 9x9 grid is drawn on, and the numbers filled in.

Be aware that there are different sized grids in different areas of the map! I did this twice.


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So I can read off my current position (pretty accurately, but not perfectly) as BF5818!

[sublynx]

Thanks for this. This is a fast and accurate enough way of keeping track of the grid :up:

For those players who want to do some SH3 editing, Tycho has made an excellent in-game version. You can download it from here:

http://www.subsim.com/radioroom/downloads.php?do=file&id=4196

My Charts addon mod from version 1.4 onwards also has Tycho's grid scheme. Charts addon is JSGME compatible if and only if you use a combination of GWX+MaGuiF or NYGM+MaGui F - and don't add any other mods that change menu_1024_768.ini file.

With your laminator solution and Tycho's grid scheme there really is no need to guesstimate grids anymore :ping:



And yeah I believe many of us remember your KTB's. Do keep them coming if you have time to play the game!

[Gustav Schiebert]

Thanks sublynx! And great shout on the electronic version, that seems like it would be much more convenient for most people. I like to do stuff 'out the game' if possible, so navigation, stopwatch etc all done IRL but this is so easy to use.

Glad you enjoyed them, I took a bit of a hiatus (it did make the game very long) but just started a new patrol yesterday, so hopefully will have that up soon.

[sublynx]

That's great to hear :arrgh!:

I feel that writing a KTB while playing adds to the game, as writing makes one think more about how and why am I going to do things in the game.