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Originally Posted by CptGrayWolf
Holysmoke does this really work!? http://www.jg52.com/gutted/sh3/Animation2.gif
Sounds like something that should work in theory, but what about practice?
Maybe one of our resident U-boat experts can tell us if this method was ever used. |
This works like a charm, I use it myself with great success. It's simple geometry after all. When you fire your torpedoes at the same angle at several targets the distance the target travels from that point to the torpedo running vector is proportional to the distance from the target to your boat. As long as all the targets and your torpedos travel at the same speed they must intercept eachother on the 0 angle bearing. The distance measure for a 0 angle shot is therefore of no importance whatsoever. Took me a little while to get my head around that one
I only bother with updating the range to a target when I want the correct running time.
As for RL use - well, I doubt convoys where as regular as they are in SHIII, even a little zig zagging would make hitting the further targets much more difficult. And as far as I know, except Kretschmer and a few select one would probably launch more than one torpedo per target, thus making a perfect 4 hit wonder salvo less probable.