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Originally Posted by aaronblood
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Originally Posted by Munchausen
Visually, a 90 AOB is one of the easiest to identify ... especially if the ship has side-by-side masts. A skipper could approach at 120 degrees (as Tater said) and, as long as the TDC was set for 90, send a final bearing when the target looked to have a 90 AOB ... then fire. He could then reposition on another target ... again waiting until seeing 90 degrees before sending a final bearing to the TDC.
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I have to say though...
I'm not sure why it never dawned on me to try this before! 
...seems so obvious. 
RR you all might want to consider looking into this one and dubbing it the "Morton" with all appropriate credit to Muchausen of course. ...or dare I say it, a true Fast-90 for fleetboats? |
I think we have the seed of a new idea here. It could also take advantage of standard convoy behavior. You hit the first target, the convoy goes into St Vitus' dance, then settles back to the original course and speed. You wait for another target to present a 90º AoB, rinse and repeat. Often even with a convoy making 12 knots, the St Vitus dance period results in milling around essentially in place and you can reposition ahead for another shot if necessary.
This has a lot of potential and the "Morton Technique" name is a good idea. Munchausen, your name goes on it and aaronblood, as usual, your vision is 20-20. I don't want to muddy the central concept of the Fast-90 technique, which was the direct connection of the U-Boat periscope with the TDC, automatically recomputing AoB for changing bearing on the same target track. In reality fleet boats could do that too, according to Nisgeis, but it is not modeled in the game.
When my new power supply comes, hopefully Friday, this gets added to my already daunting list!