I asked a couple questions in older threads that haven't seen any action so I'm starting a thread where I can post any simple straightforward questions I have. If anyone else wants to use it that way too, that is great; sort of a "Quick Questions/Quick Answers" thread.
1. What is the range on a hydrophone?
2. Do "thermal layers" block hydrophone detection by destroyers?
3. How the hell does one use the stadimeter? (incredibly vague how to match up the two images)
4. Using the U.S. TDC, how do I get my aft tubes to just shoot STRAIGHT out? I've managed to get it to do it a couple times, but it often seems to want to curve the damn thing around 150-degrees as if I was aiming at something in front of me.
5. Assuming IDEAL circumstances (Hard difficulty), what are the exact steps one should follow to hit a slow moving lone merchant with a torpedo (and assuming you have already intercepted him and are a few nautical miles (nm) in front of him and 1/2 to 1 nm off of his projected course?
I've got better than 'random' with #5 (have probably sank 30 to 40 merchant men but that is from firing probably 200 torpedoes!
), but I still feel like surfacing and swimming circles around them at high speed and lobbing shells at them is an even better tactic (though risky). I've now managed to sink about 6 destroyers and about 4 of those were from deck gun fire, not from torps.
. . . so many questions . . . this is just a good start. Game is truly amazing. Needs to be expanded to include all naval warfare, not just subs . . . the naval gunnery thing is like Space Invaders on crack . . .
