Do not get overly concerned about ship ID. The main thing is to recognize the major ship types so you know a destroyer when you see one and get pick out the most valuable merchants as targets. The main reason for ship ID is to get the range, which is the least important of all TDC data. I take the average mastheight for each type of ship and enter that number on the TDC dial for purposes of using the periscope to estimate the range. I do that to simulate what a real skipper would do. However, a shortcut is to simply pre-set the range in the tdc to the distance that approximates the range at the time of firing .Thats up to you . I have also prepared two sheets of average mastheights (one for warships and one for merchants)to go with the printable recognition manual, if you are interested send me a pm and I will send them to you. I have sent them to someone else whom I hope will post them on this forum so everyone can copy from there. For some reason I cannot post attachments, anyone know why? I hope this helps, Joe S
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