Try the Fast90 approach, it works great!

Here's a wonderful post, it's based on SH4, but works for SH5. Just ignore the screenshots and PK stuff (which you don't use anyway) scroll down to the yellow part that starts "Edit: some have asked for a drier, step by step update." and read from there. Let us know if you're more successful this way :)

http://www.subsim.com/radioroom/show...6&postcount=67

Just one quick question: when I set target range, the value remains the same, even though the target closes in. Is this a bug? While AOB is correctly calculated and updated automatically, range isn´t.

My question: So should I set range to the actual value, or to the value that will be the correct one at the point when I fire the torp?

Thanks for answers,

Cheers, AS

AS, if you're doing the "Fast90" method range won't matter really, just set it at the point where it'll hit. Since you're firing at a point rather than at the ship, kinda. :)

My addition to the video tutorials can be found here:

http://www.subsim.com/radioroom/showthread.php?t=167045

Nice thread, thanks :up:

I really wish I could read better German: http://forums-de.ubi.com/eve/forums/...5511009548/p/1

That's the most fantastic tutorial PDF I've ever seen! It's beyond what an official guide should have been. :)

Here's the direct link for it, but again it's only in German: http://www.filefront.com/15947687/He...rpedoangriff_1

Great help,Thank You!!!

Manual targeting is way more fun than automatic, and with a TDC mod it's crazy easy to set up an attack.

I use a variation on the "Fast 90" approach. Here's how I setup my attack:

http://img25.imageshack.us/img25/5358/attackplot.jpg

• Step 0 is getting ahead and to the side of a convoy.
  
• Step 1 is checking speed. Mark the bow of a ship and start your stopwatch. After 3 minutes and 15 seconds mark where the bow is again. Measure between those two points. That range divided by 100 = speed in kts.
  
• Step 2 is to use those marks to plot it's course out past in front of you. I repeated this for the first three ranks of the convoy since I was going to attack all three.
  
• Step 3 is getting into place. I'll move forward till I'm 800m away from the end column. I measured this in Step 4 which should have been Step 3! heh
  
• Step 4 is where I measured my 800m attack range from the edge of the convoy.
  
• Step 5 I draw out a 2800m range so I can tell how far my electric torpedoes can reach. Not quite to the 4th column.
  
• Step 6 is turning my scope to the right, about 10 degrees, so the Gyroangle reads 000.
  

I'll fire as the ships in the first three columns pass my scope's wire. Due to the angle I've setup all my torpedoes will travel straight ahead, all three will hit at 90 degree angles and all three will hit at the same time.

Here's my TDC settings:

http://img31.imageshack.us/img31/6237/tdcy.jpg

Some might say this is "cheating" since I have map contacts on, and sure it kind of is. It's still more fun than connect the dots! It also prepares you for No Map Contacts since you're doing all the same steps.

its not so much getting the data, i actually found it harder to manually input it in the dials. at least with darkwraiths UI mod. probably should turn off dials :doh:

I "stick" this here, just in case I loose my bookmark again :/
[TEC]The four bearings method

New and improved version

So there is no Auto firing control like sh3 with the green arrow, is that correct? only manual targeting. Mmmmm that why i spent half a day chasing a convoy only to have every torp miss.

stupid question but what IS the TDC? i turn it on/off (rather tell my watch to turn it on/off ) but does nothing? =/

Torpedo Data Computer. If you're using a UIs mod you'll have TDC dials that you can set the data into.

OOOHHHH!!!!!!! @.@ ok.... i unno, i like eyeballing it, =D
connect the dots is fun :D

Not sure if this is the right place for this but it seems close enuf.

Could anyone post a tutorial on how to intercept a target? Like in the radio contact report where they tell you where the target is, what direction it is headed and at what speed. I used to know a method for doing that but can't quite seem to remember all of it; it involved cercles and angle lines and was real quick and accurate.