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jimmie · 12-21-07, 03:38 AM

Not that I know of.

BTW, it's interesting, in the linked post he aligned the horizontal crosshair to the horizon (which is same to waterline in the case) but not to the waterline on the target ship.

Yeah, the mast is already very hard too see in SH3, and things get tougher because finding the waterline on the target ship is very hard, too, when the target is above 4km for the damn haze.

I wonder how they in history estimated the range with binoculars even without reference marks... (and the bearing, too. I don't think you can do "Ship spotted at 246!," you're not even holding a compass (and even then it must have been not that accurate) so I guess it must have been much more rough and inaccurate value in reality)

12-21-07, 03:38 AM	#2
jimmie Lieutenant Join Date: Apr 2005 Location: Japan Posts: 259 Downloads: 0 Uploads: 0	Not that I know of. BTW, it's interesting, in the linked post he aligned the horizontal crosshair to the horizon (which is same to waterline in the case) but not to the waterline on the target ship. Yeah, the mast is already very hard too see in SH3, and things get tougher because finding the waterline on the target ship is very hard, too, when the target is above 4km for the damn haze. I wonder how they in history estimated the range with binoculars even without reference marks... (and the bearing, too. I don't think you can do "Ship spotted at 246!," you're not even holding a compass (and even then it must have been not that accurate) so I guess it must have been much more rough and inaccurate value in reality)