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As my surface attacks (at least between '39 - '41/'42-ish) are on the surface, I use the UZO for bearing and range measurement. However, since my attacks are also almost always within 1,000 meters, and frequently as close as 300 -400 meters, I simply can't use the UZO for range measurements, as the magnification is so high I can't bracket waterline and mast height. How do the others here get around that?
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The UZO was not designed for range measurements, nor equipped a range fidning device. Distance was simply estimated by naked eye, and in fact if you are shooting that close and with little Gyro Angle (Which you will sure do, since you will be pointing your sub at the target to minimize the silhouette) range is irrelevant for the solution. Use it simply as bearing line transmitter, i.e. as aiming tool and that's all.
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What I'd like to see is, instead of ship classes in the recognition manual, is simply mast heights. Perhaps, for instance, every five feet (meters?). If I've already visually (and hopefully, correctly) identified targets, I should know their mast heights. Then it's a simple matter of clicking the book and choosing, for example, '25 feet', then taking a final range/bearing, and firing, then shifting to the next target, clicking the book and choosing that one's range, etc.
Coupled with that would be a way of actually printing out the recognition manual, so one could have a manual that could rapidly be thumbed through, and even dogeared and pre-marked.
Is something like this possible?
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I know for sure someone added to the recognition manual a set of fake ships with the only purposes of having a set of mast generic heigths available. I just can't remember who it was right now
RE the printable manuals, there are lots of them around in PDF format, and yes, it's much better to browse quickly through it. In any case, the best way so far of determining target data is to estimate it based on some knowledge about ships. I do it with good success in SH3/4, and rarely I'm much off.