Calculating enemys course
 

Hi felow Kaleuns, do you know other quick method to calculate the enemys course rather than the 3:15 rule?

What's the 3:15 rule?

That method is for speed in knots, not course, I think, mate.

You can also determine the course with the ruler tool using this rule :nope: but i want to learn a more effective method.

i guess and its usually right :smug:

Can someone answer my question please?

its has mate

I forgot to mention that im not using contact updates on map.

The 3.15 prooved to be the most effective methods that I ever used. I've modified it to be rather 6.30 method or even 13.0 method, though it's still the same one, regardless it's multiplied. It's deadly accurate/precise and very easy to use (after you learn it ang catch the skill).

Additionally with no map contact update on, i also play with no sub icon on map so the 3:15 rule doesnt really suits me well. :huh:

I see, but in fact you don't need the icon, even if you are moving. If you manage to set your course quite parallel to the targets one before you start precise plotting, it's very easy to do the calculations - you just havr to make an additional plot marking your position avery 3.15 minutes. As you know your course and speed exactly, that's not a problem.

Its not that simple if you are not seeing your sub on map in real time, but i think my best only option is to set an aproximate parallel course with the target and calculate this way wich will eventually led to many errors :-?

I guess you have to accept the fact that when you raise the difficulty it makes things more complicated. Since I also use manual navigation I miss also more shots, but in a way that's what I have been looking for. If you hit 100% of the time, it gets a little boring after a while...;)
I still use the 3'15" method and work it the other way around. Once I have plotted the target estimated course, the reverse bearing and distance give me the estimated position of my sub and I plot my own course from there.
The point is that all these are now estimated positions, and if your estimation is off the mark, you're in for a miss. But that's what they had to work with at the time...

You don;t need the icon, man. :) You don't even need the map, to face the truth. All that's important is the RELATIVE course, you can plot it on a blank sheet of paper, on a black board or on the floor with a piece of coal... Just anywhere. :) Just think about it.

I second that...:up:

Yes this is much more difficult now but with navigation chart i took from the community manual maybe i will plot a decent targert course now ;). Will see later.

To do the Wazoos manual targeting while moving he instructs you to mark a position on the center of your sub an then to start moving at ahead slow, past 3:15 minutes you put another mark whre you sub is at the moment, so if you have no sub icon you have to consult the speed charts to plot where you are past 3:15 minutes it envolvs much more calculation an difficulty to the targeting that viewing your sub all the time, i suggest you try it to see.

Yes, sure, I know it makes it a bit harder, but:
- see, what Corsair said about making things harder. Wise words. :)
- you can mark your starting position and the next position AND even the 'nexter' position anytime. You certainly don't have to wait till the 3.15 passes and then plot all the marks at the same moment. So you have plenty of time to mark your future position with really good precision.

man! I must admire you for playing without seeing your sub on the chart... I suppose you have 100 percent realism on? and how do you find the contacts position? with stadimeter?

Use this http://www.paulwasserman.net/SHIII/WazooNomoModBig.rar. The nomograph lets you pick up speed and course in just 30 seconds.

Well, really just for speed and range, but if you pick up two ranges in 30 seconds (more time better), you get the course.