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Elmer Kosterman · 03-31-08, 01:50 PM

You've certainly put some work into this, Joegrundman. Can you say something about how well these tips work on other ships? I haven't really studied it, but I'd have guessed that different ships have different spaces between masts, cranes at diffeent angles, different pilothouse-face-ratios, hull curvatures, etc. This could limit the applicability of some of your tips across different ship-types.

Thanks a lot for the tip about apparent ship-length being one-half at thirty degrees. I always thought it was at forty-five degrees, but you reminded me of high school geometry and tangent 30° = 0.5.

This leads me to questions about AOB when a target is maneuvering evasively. Has anyone noticed if the period of swerves is constant in game, and if so, how long it is? When's the best time to fire a torpedo at a swerving target? So that the programmed AOB matches the actual AOB at torpedo impact? Or maybe so that the programmed AOB matches the average actual AOB while the torpedo is in the water?

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Elmer Kosterman A-ganger Join Date: Jul 2007 Location: München Posts: 71 Downloads: 3 Uploads: 0	You've certainly put some work into this, Joegrundman. Can you say something about how well these tips work on other ships? I haven't really studied it, but I'd have guessed that different ships have different spaces between masts, cranes at diffeent angles, different pilothouse-face-ratios, hull curvatures, etc. This could limit the applicability of some of your tips across different ship-types. Thanks a lot for the tip about apparent ship-length being one-half at thirty degrees. I always thought it was at forty-five degrees, but you reminded me of high school geometry and tangent 30° = 0.5. This leads me to questions about AOB when a target is maneuvering evasively. Has anyone noticed if the period of swerves is constant in game, and if so, how long it is? When's the best time to fire a torpedo at a swerving target? So that the programmed AOB matches the actual AOB at torpedo impact? Or maybe so that the programmed AOB matches the average actual AOB while the torpedo is in the water?