Aiming points on recon manual
 

Hi guys!
I was performing a surface "coup de grace" attack on a C-2 yesterday, and when looking through my UZO, y actually found out that on the recognition manual, on the image of the ship, I had signaled the "vulnerable" spots, three of them actually, fuel bunkers, kiel and engine compartment.
I've never seen that before nor was I able to reproduce that, so, question is, do you guys know how and why I was able to display that? I don't do that many surface attacks so maybe it's always on the UZO?
Thanks!

If you are within 1,000 meters, with an AOB somewhere around 90 degrees plus or minus 20 degrees, with a bearing of zero degrees plus or minus approximately 20 degrees (in other words, ideal positioning) the vulnerability areas will appear.

Great, thanks! I thought it might have had something to do with it, I should have specified my location relative to the target.
Thanks mate!!!

And if you lock the uzo or periscope and click on one of the boxes, the torp will hit that spot :)

This is great information. I never knew this before. I'm going to post this at the "hints and tricks" thread.

Also make sure to open the tube (Q) before firing, or the delay can cause it to miss the sweet spot.

Those zones in the Recog Manual, don't mean squat if you're using GWX 2.0 (or other version of GWX).:rotfl:

The vunerable zones are still there but you will not get a critical hit from targeting those zones.

And close it after, otherwise the torpedo crew will get their feet wet :know:

Thanks guys! As per which version I'm currently running, well, I'm on stock SHIII, is my first campaign, so, I'm not playing DiD neither (yet):oops: .
I am on manual targeting though... a great way to do things!

I never noticed it and will check it next time. Mostly I have no time to check these things during a 90-degree AOB situation as in a regular convoy attack you are pretty busy making sure that all targets will be hit in sync as much as possible.