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Originally Posted by Drakken
the damn stadimeter. :p
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That's nice compared to some of the names I've called it. I understand in SH3 the line should be at the waterline, but in SH4 it does not matter. After all you aren't superimposing the masthead on the line, but on the waterline. That angle stays the same no matter what part of the field of view the waterline is in. Your horizontal centerline doesn't have any part of the calculation.
You can't use the attack map to check your setup? I use it all the time in TMO and I can't imagine RFB is harder. There is a line showing the lead angle of the shot. The end of that line closest to your target and extending ahead of it on the target's course (if you're set up right that is!) is the impact point. I don't have RFB installed so I can't check it out right now.
Did Dick O'Kane use the Dick O'Kane technique? Aaronblood and I have done enough research to know that he COULD have. What we do know from
Wahoo and
Clear the Deck is that O'Kane would follow the target around with the PK on making sure that the PK and the target were in agreement. In SH4 parlance, he switched to the attack screen and adjusted target range, course and speed until the PK perfectly tracked the target.
Then he sighted ahead of the target, turned the PK off, sent that bearing to the TDC and fired as juicy parts of the target "passed the wire." He mentioned approaching at 90º to the track also. Put all the pieces together and you get something very close to the Dick O'Kane technique.
The funny thing about it is that Aaronblood, gutted and I invented the technique first and then fished around for an appropriate name. Aaronblood was reading
Clear the Deck and connected the dots. Although he may not have used the precise technique, it is appropriate that we named this devastating procedure after the master of the Torpedo Data Computer, Dick O'Kane.