Hi there! We've been waiting for you and cordially extend an invite over to the
Sub Skipper's Bag of Tricks thread. There you'll find all about my favorite family of attack methods: the constant bearing method.
It's called "constant bearing" because the periscope is pointing at a fixed bearing. When the target crosses the wire, you shoot and the torpedo will hit right where the crosshairs are on the boat. If they're pointing at the front mast when you hit the fire button, that's where the torpedo hits. As long as you are firing down the zero bearing line, there is another advantage to constant bearing attacks: range doesn't matter!
The periscope is pointing down the green line. The angle between the green line and the blue line is the lead angle. When the target crosses the green line, you shoot. No matter what the range of the target, he's toast. This works not just at 90º to the track, but an any angle, so long as you shoot with a zero gyro angle.
And that's why I sponsor a variety of constant bearing attacks. You can find written and video tutorials in the Sub Skipper's Bag of Tricks thread, along with some printable flash cards to remind you how they work. Learn the Dick O'Kane Technique, the John P Cromwell method and the Vector Analysis setup and you'll more than double your tonnage production or double your depth charges back.
But that's not all! Respond in the next 30 minutes and we'll include our
Slightly Subnuclear Deck Gun at no extra charge.
Welcome to Subsim!
