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Old 11-24-09, 09:54 AM   #10
irish1958
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Originally Posted by Snestorm View Post
Steve is right, and has it right (as usual).

Remember that Course and Heading are not the same thing.

One holds a specific Heading while conducting a torpedo attack.
The only Course of interest, is that of the target(s).
I never said Steve was wrong. I said that if you maintain a particular heading, you won't get to where you want to go. How would you model this in the game? The only (easy) way to do it, in my opinion, is to have the boat wander a bit and require periodic corrections. Otherwise you would need a supercomputer to crunch all the data.
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