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Originally Posted by Pisces
I just realised, you can't even set the target speed manually that accurate. You can do it at best in 0.25 knots intervals.
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0,25 knots is just accurate enough. Assuming a range of 6000 meters and torpedo speed of 30 knots (torpedo running time 6,5 minutes) a 0,25 knot difference in target speed means a 100 meter difference in hit location. So each 0,25 knots covers 100 meters of target at that distance. If you get the speed set to the nearest 0,25 knots and aim at the center of a 100 meter target, you should hit it.
Of course, there is still the problem of measuring the speed and AoB accurately enough from that distance. The fixed wire method will give accurate enough speed, but AoB pretty much requires plotting, unless it's a convoy. With convoys you can get accurate AoB easily by maneuvering either exactly in front or behind a column or to the side of a row, because the columns lie exactly on the convoy course and the rows are exactly perpendicular to the course.