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Originally Posted by h.sie
Thanks for the pictures, mate.
What I don't understand: What is that dial for? I never missed it.
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hello H.Sie
track angle dial is for showing you the angle between torpedo's run course and target's course .
when you are positioned for a 90 degrees attack(angle between your course and target course is 90) ,the track dial has no use as you can achieve a 90 degrees impact angle shot when your gyroangle shows the 0 degrees (as this is the most common attack set up ...that is why track angle has no interest and many players never 'missed' it)
the ideal is this angle (torpedo track or impact angle) to be always 90 degrees for many reasons.this dial(track angle dial) comes to use when you are not set uped for a 90 degrees attack .some senarios for this may be that you didn't have the time to get at a 90 degrees own course attack run or maybe there also another target coming with a different course than the one you positioned for. to aim to that second target without changing your course is where you need the track dial.
you setting up your tdc based on second target's data (course ,speed ,aproximate range) and then you are not looking at gyroangle dial anymore but you are looking at track angle dial and waiting to show you 90 degrees ...that will be the moment to fire.
the 90 degrees impact angle is very important for many reasons .three main reasons are : 1) becuase of the detonators the torps had back then ,there was the possibility for torp not to explode if this angle were greater than 90 +- 20 degrees (so good track angles are 70 to 110 degrees)
2) the distance that torp has to travel for a 90 degrees impact angle is minimum and this is reducing the possibilities for torp to miss becuase of some not so acurate target's data(distance-speed-course)
3) when torp is running on a 90 degrees impact course ,is 'looking' the full length of ship so target looks 'bigger' looking through torp's ''eyes'' and this ,also, reducing the possibilities for torp to miss becuase of some not so acurate target's data.
now, if you are asking me if it is neseccery to import this dial in game i will say to you that the answer is NO ! that is becuase we can calculate with our mind(and plotting) the gyro angle that we need to have in order to set the torpedo to a 90 degrees impact angle course run so this dial is there just to make our life easier and nothing more than this.
and another reason for this dial to be imported is becuase it was there on the real thing
...so if we can get it in-game ....i say ...why not ?