[rdblan2]

Hello folks! First of all, this place is amazing. I may have tossed the game into the trash after that silly manual shows me how to do next to nothing! Been reading as much as I can and am learning a lot! You folks have some excellent tutorials here.

I'm running 1.4 stock with no mods thus far and realism probably at 0 until I get a hang of things.

With auto targeting, I hit the L button and lock on my intended victim at say 1K yards directly in front of me. I'm all locked up and have a nifty green triangle. I occassionaly miss. When I lock up on the target, the scope swings to the middle of the target. If I unlock the target and move the scope say to the bow of the target am I then "aiming" at the bow? Meaning if I lock up, then unlock, move the scope to the stern of the target, fire, move to middle of target, fire, and move scope to the bow and fire again, are my shots actually "aimed" at the stern, middle and bow and hopefully impacting in those 3 places? Or, am I just wasting time with this tactic? I'm hoping to walk my shots down the target and hit different compartments.

Or, do I need to lock up and use the offset angle for the salvos?

I must say my favorite thing thus far is actually getting a hit. Watching that external camera and hearing that sound: Ba - BOOOOOOOOM! I just want to hear it a little more often. One of the things that helped me the most was learning that I needed to open outer doors. That drastically reduced my missed shots.

Thanks for any help you kind folks can provide and I hope I've explained myself accurately!