[Rockin Robbins]

1. The U-boat TDC and the American TDC are different. Trying to shoehorn your understanding of the German TDC into the American one is a futile exercise. The American TDC must be understood on its own merits and not by comparison. You don't have to be locked to send bearing and range. Bearing and range are always sent together, except from the sonar.

The Position Keeper, which is part of the genius of the American TDC, demands that the periscope not be hardwired to the TDC. However the real German periscope had no such hardwiring as SH3 has. Bearings were entered manually. The advantage of the postition keeper is that after it agrees sufficiently with reality you could even submerge to 99', hit the fire button and a ship explodes and sinks. That's not possible with a German TDC.

2. Deck guns are stabilized in the game. Attempts to destabilize it and have it roll with the sub have had poor results. I have such a mod and it's fun to play with but I can't say it works very well. Since that attempt by a modder who wouldn't even volunteer that the idea was his, no further attempts have been made to rectify the deck gun. And that's appropriate.

As Sam Dealy said "I don't care whether the deck gun is mounted bow or stern so long as it's on wheels so I can roll it overboard." Sub captains had no use for deck guns aside from its usefulness in drying laundry.