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Originally Posted by Bilge_Rat
spending more time with this. Interesting to see you can use the periscope marks to measure the range accurately like in SH5.
each mark represents 10 mils for a total of 100 mils from the waterline to the "10" mark.
on the UZI/Attack scope at high power (10x), the formula to determine range is:
(height of target in meters) x 4000 /(height of target in mils) = range in meters.
at low power (1.5x),the formula to determine range is:
(height of target in meters) x 600 /(height of target in mils) = range in meters.
for example:
target #1 is a "Coastal Merchant", mast height is 22.7 meters, target height in scope is 90 mils, so
22.7 x 4000 / 90 = 1008 meters.
map reading shows almost 1000 meters
target #2 is a "Small Tanker", mast height is 26.6 meters, target height in scope is 60 mils, so
26.6 x 4000 / 60 = 1773 meters.
map reading shows 1800 meters.
I have tried it on a variety of ships, it gives you the exact range within 10%.
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Thanks for that!
Now I can use the TDC with complete manual measurements and don't need the default SH3 tool in the upper right corner of the attack periscope.
But as I also don't like to use a calculator everytime (for realism reasons
), I've created some attack distance charts, smiliar to the charts you find in Wolfpack.
One version is for the default LSH x10 zoom and the other for x6 zoom for people who edited their cameras.dat
Distances are in meters!
