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Bothersome · 04-01-14, 01:29 PM

Thanks Dread Knot that's good to know.

Thanks guys for your info and input on the attack.

One question eers75,
Do you have a general procedure for attacking the two ships simultaneously that is using manual targeting? For instance, if you knew the speed and the distance apart, do you have certain setups that you fire at per-determined angles or do you have to re-calculate and set up the TDC for the other target? Taking the time to set up the TDC is what I'm trying to avoid because by the time the set up is done, the firing is late.

Here is my MAIN beef with SH4 fleet boat targeting... When you send a new bearing to the TDC, it changes the direction of the ship. In real life, when the captain give you a bearing to set the TDC to, you don't change the ships course setting too. But in the game, that setting is being changed, so I have to constantly go back and reset the AOB/ship course setting to fix it back to the ships heading.

When playing the German side, this is done automatically. So you can shoot multiple targets pretty easy. If I shoot a ship at 45 degrees AOB, when I move the bearing to 10, the AOB changes to 80, keeping the ship on the same course. US side, the ship course would change to 35 degrees port which then has to be reset. Very annoying.

This is why I was thinking there might be a better way. To have per-determined angles to best fire at for multiple targets that have known properties.

04-01-14, 01:29 PM	#5
Bothersome Planesman Join Date: Mar 2010 Posts: 194 Downloads: 64 Uploads: 0	Thanks Dread Knot that's good to know. Thanks guys for your info and input on the attack. One question eers75, Do you have a general procedure for attacking the two ships simultaneously that is using manual targeting? For instance, if you knew the speed and the distance apart, do you have certain setups that you fire at per-determined angles or do you have to re-calculate and set up the TDC for the other target? Taking the time to set up the TDC is what I'm trying to avoid because by the time the set up is done, the firing is late. Here is my MAIN beef with SH4 fleet boat targeting... When you send a new bearing to the TDC, it changes the direction of the ship. In real life, when the captain give you a bearing to set the TDC to, you don't change the ships course setting too. But in the game, that setting is being changed, so I have to constantly go back and reset the AOB/ship course setting to fix it back to the ships heading. When playing the German side, this is done automatically. So you can shoot multiple targets pretty easy. If I shoot a ship at 45 degrees AOB, when I move the bearing to 10, the AOB changes to 80, keeping the ship on the same course. US side, the ship course would change to 35 degrees port which then has to be reset. Very annoying. This is why I was thinking there might be a better way. To have per-determined angles to best fire at for multiple targets that have known properties.