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Originally Posted by Rockin Robbins
...It's a bogus technique that has for some reason, taken on a life of its own in Silent Hunter....
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It's not bogus, it's scientifically sound. It's just historically unrealistic. Well, for US atleast. Since the intelligence about those ships could not be trusted, or the Officer using it. BTW, the Germans did have special functionality in some of their periscopes ('Feste Linie im Raum', tr.: 'fixed line in space') to keep a gyrocompass-synchronised vertical line in their view. (
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Ahum,
In another post (I think it was the recently resurrected 'Clear the Bridge! Dick O'kane method' thread, ... yup it's post 7) you said:
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In order to run, you must first learn to walk. And it's great if while you're only walking you can do some interesting things, like blow up enemy shipping. Just please make an agreement with me. After you learn to run, don't make fun of the people who are still walking. Don't make fun of simpler methods as "unhistorical" or "shortcuts." There are plenty of runners who still use the Dick O'Kane and John P Cromwell techniques to their profit. And some of those walkers, like I'm goin' down, will be passing you in skills in a month or two!
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It works, 'fairly' quick, at least usually quicker than 3 minutes
, it's (can be) precisely defined how to, and it's simple. What more do you want?