Here's a very interesting tidbit. I've long maintained that when sighting a target, the commander should assume that the target is either in the recognition manual with the wrong masthead height, or not in the manual at all, or misidentified. In all three cases, which cover a majority of sightings during the war, the TDC and position keeper are useless because your range is wrong.
How to fix that? How about taking a single ping range at about 3,000 yards and then setting the masthead height manually so the stadimeter reads the right range? Then the rest of the action you have him pegged without the need to rely on unreliable information?
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2303.Echo ranging during the conduct of an approach must be used with discretion and with full consideration of many factors. If it is certain that enemy craft lack the equipment necessary to detect transmission from own equipment on the frequencies used, it can then be used with impunity. Under these conditions, when approaching an unscreened target, echo ranging can no doubt be used effectively for checking course and speed, for solution of the torpedo problem, and for own maneuvers in conducting the final stages of the approach. The importance of obtaining a single ping range at about 2500-3000 yards in order to accurately determine target masthead height with which to correct speed data is obvious. Under these same conditions, periscope observations are usually available, but when the masthead height of the target has to be estimated, echo ranges may be more accurate than periscope ranges.
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It seems my logic and assumptions, according to Admiral Lockwood, are locked on target! Unfortunately, our game TDC has no way to input masthead height in order to perform the "obvious" necessessity....another Ubi game fail.