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Originally Posted by Snowman999
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To clarify, I'm not talking about taking three bearings, the way to angle tool works on the map requires three clicks in quick succession. Like I stated the first click out in front of the target along it's projected course, another click at the target bow and the last click on your sub will draw an angle on the map which represents the AOB (at least roughly). In my limited experience a decent way of getting an AOB value in a relative hurry at a single point in time when you have a pretty good idea of the target's course (map updates on, or through visual contact, or sonar contacts over time).
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What I don't get, and maybe I need the game to understand, is why, if you already have a course auto-plotted, you're even worrying about determining AOB. If you have the course AOB is already determined. Doesn't the game send the AOB to the TDC while it's giving you the course for free? |
@seth: it won't make much difference in your accuracy, but the angle's vertex should be in the middle of the target and the angle extend to the middle of your sub to be technically correct. It's easy to demonstrate that doesn't make any difference in shooting accuracy though, so I'll only fight you if the I have an unfair advantage.
Here I am replying before I have read the entire thread. Generally I am getting fixes on the target with radar, connecting two fixes six minutes apart to estimate average course and speed. I use the average course to set my AoB and my solution will remain correct so long as I have taken a true average zig pattern. Plotting the course line and points that predict where he will be at six minute intervals along the average course let me determine changes in course or speed that I need to compensate for. By the time he comes into sight I have a good idea what he is going to do and how I will react to it. I try to wait at a right angle course to the track about 700 yards off the track, at periscope depth and ½ kt running silent.
Lately I have been coupling the above with what we are calling the Dick O'Kane attack method. Although O'Kane was a TDC/PK wizard, he preferred not to use the contraption for its intended purpose! What's the saying that no device is so perfectly designed that it cannot be perverted into doing something useful?
I'm curious. Could you two real sub guys check out
http://www.subsim.com/radioroom/show...6&postcount=67 and let me know if you ever did anything similar? Also, this will give you some feel for how the game mechanics work. You might be interested in MoBo, the Electronic Maneuvering Board and Dead Reckoning Tracker at
http://www.subsim.com/radioroom/show...79&postcount=1