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Originally Posted by Collin Dougherty
Because sometimes the AI acts like a freaking idiot and misses shots it really should not be missing.  |
I'll agree that they sometimes seem to just close their eyes and hope for the best. On the other hand, naval gunnery is probably the most imprecise of all war sciences. The average hit rate for WW2 was somewhere in the area of 7%, with the rate for shots fired under 5000 yards being about 12%. The target is moving, the boat is moving, there are no gyroscopically stabilized guns.
Author Peter Padfield, in his history
Guns at Sea, likened it to shooting at a golf ball rolling across a fireplace mantle with a pistol, while sitting in a rocking chair being randomly rocked by someone else.