damn ... my computer rebooted alone when I just finished to post some additionnal informations here
grrrr
So I will be short :
In fact, in DW, you must not exactly use the highest mast, but the highest structure !
Don't ask me why, but I'm sure it is like this in DW (tested hundreds times)
If you use the highest mast, you will always have shorter value than expected (except if the highest mast is as high as the highest structure ...) because mast are usually a bit higher than the structure, and sometimes MUCH higher
About use of stadimeter :
The smaller the ship, the closer to you he should be to work at stadimeter
sounds logical hey ?
But what I mean is you better work when your target is quite big in your scope.
Example : with a super tanker, you could work at very large distance, find an accurate range at 15 miles.
But if you work at a perry, you better wait to see her quite big at scope, or you will have real problems to find a correct range.
On a perry, you are going to find correct values at around 9 or 8 miles, and accurate values only from 7 miles.
Before that time, you will have at least ~30% of error, or more.
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If you want to do it old school style, you can forget about your sonar and just use some old fashioned uboat tactics
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you better use the TMA station here :
To have a nice target trajectory, take 3 or 4 photos, use stadimeter each time on them, then go to TMA station, and you could do here a VERY accurate TMA on your contact in less than 30 seconds : the easiest TMA you could imagine, same as with active contact (each track have a specific range you calculated with stadimeter, you just have to put the tick marks of the ruler on them, no range to find, you already calculated it !).
Even with only 2 tracks you could make it, but you better take 3 or 4 to have a more accurate course for your target.
For the KILO, using stadimeter + TMA gave you a fantastic combinaison to find very easily and very quick the course/speed of your target.
And it's way more easier than WWII old school !
Last thing : for the OHP, on the opposite of other platforms, the best mark to use is not the highest structure, but the black platform of the CAS radar, the highest mast.
Again don't ask me why, this is empiricism, I made tests to estimate the best I could the range of this supposed manned platform.
But except on OHP (...) on most military ships, the best upper mark is the highest structure.