That's hardcore man! The only way to play! The experience you want to have is decided by YOU and only you.
Ok so I (finally) started a campaign in NYGM3. Much different than GWX3 I must say, but so far I'm really liking it.
There's only one issue I have to bring up. I was tracking this merchant vessel for a good while, probably an hour or so. I spotted him when I was in a favorable position anyways, so I didn't need to track him longer than that. I took range/bearing estimates with the UZO at about 9000m off his starboard bow, and then turned to a heading parallel to track him. At the correct intervals I took my estimates with the UZO until I was satisfied and locked him in at 9 knots.
I also estimated his course to be about 015. Now with this I could spring ahead and get into an attack position. Confident about his speed and heading, and detecting no evasive maneuver, I got into position about 1500m off his course line. Not ideal, but good enough. I did all my final torp preps and setup battle stations. I took another reading through the periscope, and determined him to be on roughly the same course line 015. With that I used my formulas (which I've tested time and again, they're correct), to figure his AOB. He was properly ID'ed as a small merchant. With everything set, AOB and speed pre-factored, now all I had to do was one more range, lock it in, and shoot....and miss. There were no evasive maneuvers that I could tell. I tracked this guy for a long time and no variables changed, even up until the time I took my shot. Frustrated, I surfaced and put him under with my deck gun. Not my cleanest kill, but I still got the end result.
Now to the drawing board... What went wrong? What changed? What variables did I miss/mis-calculate? Up until I took my shot, I confirmed all my parameters and found them to be accurate. Could he have made just a slight course or speed change? Is the stadimeter broken? Anybody have any ideas?
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