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Originally Posted by Carrollsue This something that I have wanted to say for a long time…. EVERY THING is an estimation doing this time (1918-1945) and you are on water, moving and everything is rock and rolling EVEN on smooth water. Ain’t no way you can get a reading like that…66.3 feet at that range. Come on:hmm2:

You're quite right Carrollsue everything was just an estimate.

The fact that I set the height (in this case the funnel of the Nagara Maru) at 66.3 feet tall is close enough to get a fairly good estimate of range ONLY if everything else were to be optimal. Seldom is this ever true.

In real life, the Office of Naval Intelligence (ONI) manuals of the day did indeed try to give dimensions down to the inch. Go HERE to look at some of the published pages of an ONI manual.

Does this mean you could turn their "best guess" estimate into an accurate firing solution? Yes, but only with practice, trial and error, luck, and all the pieces coming together. On average a Captain learned from his mistakes, with the hope of trying something different if he survived his first one.

Even to this day with such technology as Aegis, high tech sonar and fios periscopes and the like, surface and submarine warfare is a best guess. The sea is not man's domain, and Neptune doesn't care for our antics. We still use BLP (blind loaded and plugged) rounds to range to target prior to unleashing the worst 5" rounds man has ever devised! I couldn't even imagine the unsung hardships the old salts had to endure back then.


8 yrs active and counting surface warrior here.

Knowing what I know now, there isn't much to complain about with the game. If you miss and die, reset, relearn, repeat. Back then, you miss, you may have very well have died.

OMg sailors that do not cuss :har:... what the hell is the world coming too??:subsim:

I would suggest at 1400 yards to hell with anything but your brain. :har:Mk14's at 1400 yards traveling at 46 knots ...

46 knots = 52.9358547 mph
1400 yards = 4200 feet

The fish will travel 1400 feet in in roughly 1.089 minutes unless I have had to much to drink.:smug:

Set the fish to high speed, depth lowest setting, contact or no that is your choice but I would have already had this set long ago.:nope: Lead the target by 5 degrees looking through the periscope.:up: Fire a spread of four fish You sink the ship:yeah: ... now hide and wait for depth charges.:woot:

I need another drink ... :arrgh!:RUMMY?!?!?!:arrgh!: where's my swill???:rock:

It's served in the bilge. You'll be served swill until you can't take anymore.
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