[doulos05]

Another note is, even if you aren't ready to use Manual targeting, you can 'error check' yourself by setting up a Dick O'Kane or John P. Cromwell attack using the technique explained in the videos and the using the Auto Targeting for the shot itself. Measure the speed and course, jot down what you came up with, and then set up your approach for those values. Then, compare your guess with the TDC values when you finally lay eyes on her. If you've got it right, then you have confirmation that you knew what you were doing. And if you didn't, the auto targeting will adjust for you. It allows you to learn their techniques with a bit of help to make up your mistakes. It also teaches you good approach, which is 90% of the shot (probably the hardest 90% too). I took down a boat with auto targeting on last night that I couldn't see at all. Heavy precip, Heavy fog, visibility of less than 200 yards. But because I had an accurate speed measurement (verified 3 times) and course (similarly checked) and range (I was pinging him constantly, thank goodness merchants can't hear) and I got right down to the arming distance before firing to minimize errors (I fired from 550 yards), I was able to fire ahead of him when the sonar man reported him on a given bearing and hit him right beneath the stack and bagged a Ryuun Maru without ever laying eyes on it. Same night, same storm, I bounced a torp off the hull of another maru, I drifted in under 400 yards... But I would have hit just head of the screws...