I always identify the ship first and do all my readings at full stop, that is I reverse then stop to be sure. The problem I have is at 100% realism I also refuse to use the WO which I never had a problem with until now when I'm forced to take shots at much longer ranges than I am used to. From these longer rangers I can no longer really 'eye' the distance and rely totally on the stadimeter. Using it on these distances I can get 4 readings in a row and have a disparity of 1000 or so between each.
This, among other things, is making longer shots nearly a matter of luck for me. I was completely frustrated this morning when I found a battleship surrounded by destroyers preventing me from getting to a close distance. I fired a salvo of 4 from, what I thought was, 3500km and all were well off. I marked the position on my map and waited til they had all passed then went to the spot myself and it was 5000km not 3500km.
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