Hello. I'm Rockin Robbins and I...............hate ........ the stadimeter.
A stadimeter you can see perfectly is still subject to error. They're just nasty ways to determine range. A sonar or radar range is very preferrable to the stadimeter. I think sometimes a Ouija board would give a better answer.
That's why the U-Boat Fast-90 and the Fleet Boat's Dick O'Kane methods are so good. They put the blasted stadimeter in the garbage where it belongs unless there is a darn good reason you can't put your boat in position for a right angle attack. I say that in spite of being pretty good at conventional US targeting procedures.
Kraken has a stadimeter dart board in officer country.