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Old 12-21-07, 03:32 PM   #9
Munchausen
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If you're trying to intercept the standard map contact (outside of visual and sonar range), it will most likely be more than five nautical miles away. Since your boat still travels in knots (same as in SH3), your intercept geometry should be the same.

If you're trying to set up for an attack on a visual target, your projected offset distance should be in yards (unless you plan to fire your fish from the safe distance of 5nm). Although they aren't exactly the same length, yards and meters are close enough so that, if you fired at 1000 meters in SH3, you should do just fine firing at 1000 yards in SH4.

If you're worried about visual detection range ... well, it could be inside or outside the cutoff between nautical miles and yards, depending on the weather and time of day. Ergo, it's a bit of a turkey shoot.
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