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Originally Posted by Wolfstriked
That is a freakin genius idea and yet so simple and easy to do that its BRILLIANT!!.  Is this done with 1.5x or 6x? |
In my experience it works at every magnification since the degrees scale as you increase magnification. Ultimately at any zoom a ship will still appear to be the same length if your instrument is calibrated to scale with the zoom changes, which every scope is, meaning it will appear larger to you but the degree marks will still be the same.
Really it makes perfect sense when you think about it. If you assume the scope is your own position and you measure that a ship covers 10 degrees from your own position then the spread angle works exactly the same way. If you drew 3 lines from your point of origin, one on your relative 0, meaning where your scope is pointed, then drew lines stbd and port of it you'd get a cone (2 sides of the triangle) going outward. If you set the spread to 4 degrees then it'll be 2 degrees left and right of the centre of your reticle, and so all you have to do is make sure that the target sits in that same range.
One of the simplest things I learned early early on years ago playing SH3. There have been many more than just melted my brain by comparison, but sometimes it eludes us cause nobody tells you this stuff, I don't think its really in any manuals here. Nobody ever really addresses salvo shots as far as I can tell. I'm gonna guess its cause everyone wants to be a hotshot like Kretschmer - "One ship, one torpedo".
Still hoping someone can answer my question.
EDIT. After thinking about it I'm just gonna draw a pic in PS to illustrate what I meant by the spread angle.
Thats how I always knew it. Now if I'm wrong, well someone feel free to correct me, I was never an expert on anything in this game, but that always worked for me. Bear in mind that max spread angle means you're going to be hitting the very tip of the bow and stern of the target (provided your solution is exact) so obviously you make the spread smaller.
Conversely you could make the spread wider than this by some if you thought your solution was particularly bad, but for academic purposes unaffected by immediate tactical considerations, that is how you determine maximum spread angle, as I know it. You either place the peri/UZO on the dead centre of the target and count the degrees from centre on Port and Stbd, or you place the centre vertical reticle for the peri/UZO and at both the stern and bow of the target and the difference in the two bearings is the max spread angle you can use.
Hope that helped.