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I'm not poseing this question to the guys out there who have Naval experience, because you have an unfair advantage. Do you think with the knowlege we have from playing SH4 that we would actually be able to track and successfully attack a ship?
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As I said before, I believe we would know enough from the game to have a general understanding as to what the real crew was doing around us and why it was happening. I don't believe we could actually perform it.
Why? Here is one example .... the game doesn't take into consideration the difference between
grid azimuth and
magnetic azimuth. You plot your intercept solution on the map ... and then use those exact figures to set up ... in real life ... epic FAIL. You will miss every time because you didn't convert from grid to magnetic azimuth or ... you didn't account for magnetic declination [All military maps have the magnetic declination difference located in the legend of that map, many times it is a difference of up to and sometimes exceeding 14 degrees. If you are trying to put one under the smoke stack an aiming error of 14 degrees would be rather significant! Just imagine all the fun you would have if you made several measurements from real observation and plotting on a grid map and then back again. That would spell F-U-N in a big way!
]. That is just one example. But do you understand what the real crew is doing? Sure you do.
Could you do it yourself and hit? Not without real life experience and further training.
