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Originally Posted by Apocal
Did it ever work out that easy for you in real life? It never did for me. Theoretically, sure, but out to sea, lol, never.
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No, but it doesn't mean the mechanics of plotting are difficult. It means that there's a lot to take into account: wind, tide, own ship course and/speed changes, target course and speed changes etc.
But it again, plotting, the act of jotting down the dots on a plotting table and connecting them, is a, at least for a trained submariner, rather simple skill.
Hence my remarkt that: no amount of fatigue or inexperience should make him: blind, deaf or unable to hold a pincel, ruler and a pair of compasses.
Besides, even if a target or convoy were zig-zagging, as long as it zig-zagged at regular intervals, it would become predictable. And thus could be taken into account.