Originally Posted by Corsair

1. If the ship makes zig zags, it's either the helmsman is completely drunk (happened in real life - like the Exxon Valdez or a container ship whose name I forgot and which beached on the Normandy coast after luckily going at night through the Channel Islands - but is not imho modelled in SH3) or they know you're there. Which means you've done something wrong before...

Originally Posted by CaptainAsh

It s not realistic but it works fine in SHIII...
- As it was said, even if zigzaging, it s a cycle... so, first, take the time of the cycle.
- then, on the global heading of your target, put some marker at cycle time... its giving you the relative speed on the direct trajectory...
- now it s the trick, you must check with your computer to get a range for which the torpedo's time will be a full multiplicator of the cycle time, so your target will have the same angle when you take your shoot and when the torpedo actually impact.
- go to that range
- Enter the range, the wanted angle on bow and the relative speed in your computer. (It s important to enter the relative speed and not the real speed).
- wait for the wanted angle on bow. Fire!


It s not realistic because I guess a real ship is not going to respect a cycle...
Still, it works fine... it s just like the ship is doing warp jump at cycle time :)

Originally Posted by High Voltage

Jeezus Christ, my head hurt just reading that. It's like Star Trek mathematics or something...Cycle times and warp jumps - why don't you just fire up your Dilithium Crystal, engage your cloaking device, and nail the bastard with a facefull of photon torpedos!!!

If you need help deciphering the above, just refer to this:
http://www.jumpstation.ca/recroom/trek/techno.html

and no, I'm not a geek...

Live long and prosper.

Originally Posted by CaptainAsh

Not necessary... sometimes you can pick a nice isolated target and being behind his trajectory... so you can t reach him underwater. So you go flank and surfaced. If you can t use the deck gun you gonna have to use torpedo...
Speed is important though because he is giving your position right now :yep: