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Originally Posted by CSGdesign
Thankyou for your explanation... however to my completely new-to-this mind you've just replaced one name "the wire" with another name "the firing point". What does a "firing point" refer to. I'm totally unfamiliar with all terminology, I've just picked up the game and started playing and teaching myself the history and terminology and techniques and such to get more immersed in role-playing the game...
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The terminology is so much fun to learn!
Firing Point- the point at which you fire. By doing all sorts of hocus-pocus with angles and speeds and target courses, you determine what point on the map you want to fire your torpedoes from. You then get the fun task of making sure your boat arrives at this point when the target is where it is supposed to be.
The wire- the vertical line running through the periscope view. If you set up the Dick O'Kane Attack (A method developed for manual targeting that lets you ignore range), you wait until the part of the ship you want to hit is crossing the central wire in the periscope. If you have it set up, the torpedo will hit that part, allowing you to aim for engines, fuel, magazines, etc.