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Originally Posted by Vaux
While I'm convinced that my deck gun crew, despite having high numbers in the "Guns" category, couldn't hit a stationary aircraft carrier from 500 yards even if it was painted bright orange and loaded with magnets to attract the shells, I've never had a problem with my helmsman not keeping the course I've ordered. That goes for stock 1.5 as well as TMO 2.0.
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I would never trust my crew with such a delicate, complicated task.
What I meant by not steering is this. If you decide to change course, say to 055 deg., and you click on the HUD compass dial, unless you are very good at it, you may be off 2 or even 3 degrees. If you keep trying (or get lucky), and the helmsman repeats "course 055", you must still wait for the rudder to reach 0, and check. More than once, I've found that they will then report 054 or 056 deg. Then you would need to manually adjust the course yourself and check again........ This is a lot of trouble in my opinion.
Even when they report 055 deg., this only means you are within half a degree. This has been a major irritant to me as I like to have an accurate plot before I shoot and also I was trying to use the celestial navigation mode of play, which puts a premium on accurate dead reckoning.