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Originally Posted by desirableroasted
What's happening is that you are "losing lock", which will screw up your approach.
I would do things pretty much the opposite.
Let's assume calm, Academy weather... (there is plenty of advice about how to approach in bad weather on these forums).
0) Targets out there. Green means a good shot for impact torps, Yellow means very iffy, Red means impossible. (Magnetic pistolled torps are a different breed, stick to impact for now).
HOWEVER: the game assumes you are going to use tube 1, which is a forward tube. If you want to use tube 5 -- the rear -- click on it and the triangle will change accordingly. But see below.
1) Identify the target. It has a draft of 6 meters? OK...
2) Go to TDC. Click on Tube 1, set your depth to 3 meters, since you are going to make an impact shot. Set your I/M (Impact/Magnetic) switch to I. Set your Torp speed to the highest.
3) Hit Q to open your tube. This is very important; failure to do so delays your shot by several seconds, long enough to ruin your shot.
4) Angle the boat so that you are pretty much perpendicular to the target. We call this "AOB" and, again, there's pages of material about approaches here on the forum.
5) Go to your scope or uzo and "lock" the target. Fire (later you will learn to nuance your shots, but for now just shoot on lock).
These are the bare bones basics. Hope it helps.
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UPDATE: I followed the advice here and managed to sink a yellow target ship from the rear using torpedo 5 !
Thanks for that.
Many questions remain, however.
One: What do you mean by draft of 6m? And
Two: Why did you tell me to set the depth to 3? How was that number determined?
Three: When I did the Aob, I basically averaged it. I just temporarily put it on manual and twisted the ship to where it sort of looked perpendicular. Not very precise at all, but it worked somehow. Is this ok for now or should I delve into the complex intricacies of making it precise ?
