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Originally Posted by eers75

WOW, definitely a misconception. Im shocked to be honest. I ordered "Clear the Bridge" the other day but its not here yet so ive been stuck trying to find snippets of war patrol reports from the web until it gets here. Ive become fascinated with Okane since returning to subsim as I never really tried to learn anything in depth years ago when I was here.

So I will look this up but why is it called the "Okane" method? Was it just something that Rockin Robbins really just made up? Im asking because I really thought that this method was one of the reasons that Okane was so successful.

Im not too proud to admit this is what I thought and im glad you pointed this out because that would have been my story

Don't feel bad. I'm sure many had thought the same thing.

RR developed his method and wanted a better name than XYZ method. I don't think he picked O'Kane for any particular reason.



O'Kane is my favorite, too. If you like Clear the Bridge, you should also get Wahoo.

O'Kane mainly used the TDC in the way it was meant to be used. That is, to it's full scope of functionality. By this, I mean he didn't rely on 'canned' approaches, where one must approach, or fire at certain angles. He had a little trick where he spread the torpedoes by putting the scope reticle on another part of the ship, so the crew would recompute with the new bearing. (As opposed to using a specific angle spread.) I don't know if he was the only one to do this or not.

Something else O'Kane did. He used model ships on a turn table to practice calling out Aob angles, and honing his skill in this regard.
[I believe he describes this in Wahoo.]