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Old 02-03-16, 04:32 PM   #27
De Ruyter
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Originally Posted by dashyr View Post
In fact you must do exactly what you do but from the target' POV. The AOB is from the target, not you. if you got a perfect 90 angle on a enemy as an example. Following your logic the AOB would be 0. But from the target it would be 90. the correct aob in this scenario is 90. Another example if youre right behind the target ship AOB isnt 0 but 180

AOB must be understood as being at wich angle you would see you sub in relation of the bow of the ship if you were one of the poor souls of the target ship.
Right, if the ship is dead ahead of me, I get that I would set AOB to 90. Perhaps my math logic does not hold. Perhaps in the 330 scenario, I should set AOB to 60. That actually seems like it would make more sense, subtract the difference from 90. I don't know, I will have to work out the trigonometry of it. That may only hold if we are approaching at right angles. Considering that I am studying engineering, trig should not be that much of an issue.
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