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Originally Posted by commandosolo2009
He did! And in the entire book, the TDC he used was to generate a range and bearing, (ie to check the accuracy of input) since he had to water-lap and dunk the scope alot of times, in order to not risk being spotted. He extensively used it at Honshu (fourth chapter and patrol)
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So what exactly is the issue?
There was a page in O'Kane's book I was trying to mimic where he was overriding the position keeper and holding the bearing to target constant. I could find it if I have to (I know I've quoted the page number here before); but I'd have to check his book out again from the library. I don't think anyone is suggesting the guy didn't know how to use the TDC as it was intended.
Frankly, I was trying to intitiate a Fast-90 attack in a US fleetboat, but the PK/TDC doesn't allow for adjusting the AoB while panning the scope (aggravating). I noticed that O'Kane could do something with his TDC that I couldn't do in the game and that irritated me a little. ...did my best with what the PK/TDC allows in this game and this method sorta fell out of it. This game models a position keeper PK and TDC as if they are forever joined, whereas I think the full contraption in the fleetboat had both a PK and a TDC and they could somehow be operated seperately, but I don't know that for sure, I just suspect it was the case from what I read of O'Kane giving various commands.
I didn't really have any idea what to call the technique, except that Fast-90 seemed inappropriate because the TDC doesn't have the same whiz-wheel qualities of the U-boat TDC. RR came up with the idea to give the nod to O'Kane... seemed OK to me, and less heady than calling it the RR or AB technique. I mean I guess if I were to try to accurately classify it, I'd call it the "No TDC" method. You're basically disabling the TDC and pointing the nose of the sub where you want the torp to go. Not quite as fun as what you can do in the u-boat but it gets the job done.
Incidentally, I recall reading that the fleetboat PK/TDC seemed to be an adaptation of a battleship targeting computer. My take on the u-boat vs. fleetboat method of targetting is that it seems to be oriented to the types of attacks. The US fleetboat seems better equiped for single target tracking and stealthy ambush, complete obliteration of single target. While the u-boat seems better equipped for setting a generic course for lots of ships (convoys) and then popping up and unleashing hell on several targets quickly.
I like em both.
