Really stupid noob Q about manual TDC

MikeJW · 04-12-07, 08:57 PM

I tried for the first time tonight to try manual TDC in the training mission. Wasnt as hard as I had thought and with the American TDC it wasnt too hard to guess AOB. Now for my dumb question: when do you know its time to shoot? In SH3 you wanted to fire when the gyros were within 005 and on easy TDC in 4 it's when the triangle turns green. What am I looking for with manual TDC?

AVGWarhawk · 04-13-07, 09:08 AM

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Originally Posted by MikeJW

I tried for the first time tonight to try manual TDC in the training mission. Wasnt as hard as I had thought and with the American TDC it wasnt too hard to guess AOB. Now for my dumb question: when do you know its time to shoot? In SH3 you wanted to fire when the gyros were within 005 and on easy TDC in 4 it's when the triangle turns green. What am I looking for with manual TDC?

You want to fire torps when you know your solution is as accurate as possible. The question is really, how close? I get to within 1500 yards are better. This will compensate for any slight miscalculation in your solution...this one usually being speed.

Egan · 04-13-07, 09:16 AM

Speed is the killer and AVGWarhawk is right, the best way to compensate for that is to be as close as possible. I usually hold off until I'm at 1000 yards or less and at that range, you can be a couple of knots of and still hit, (usually.)

AVGWarhawk · 04-13-07, 09:19 AM

Linavitch · 04-13-07, 09:42 AM

The Position keeper on the left of the attack screen has a graphical representation of the torpedo course on the lower of the two dials (the upper dial showing relative bearing IIRC)

So when the bottom dial shows a straight line shot that is when you should shoot. (and hopefully you top dial will show 90 AOB)

Sometimes the solution shows on the attack map too but recently I seem to have lost the torpedo line from mine.

EDIT- Scroll down the forum alittle to "Yet another TDC question" and there is a thread about this very thing.

04-12-07, 08:57 PM	#1
MikeJW Helmsman Join Date: Mar 2005 Posts: 106 Downloads: 0 Uploads: 0	Really stupid noob Q about manual TDC I tried for the first time tonight to try manual TDC in the training mission. Wasnt as hard as I had thought and with the American TDC it wasnt too hard to guess AOB. Now for my dumb question: when do you know its time to shoot? In SH3 you wanted to fire when the gyros were within 005 and on easy TDC in 4 it's when the triangle turns green. What am I looking for with manual TDC?

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04-13-07, 09:42 AM	#5
Linavitch Officer Join Date: Jul 2006 Location: Hull Posts: 239 Downloads: 170 Uploads: 0	The Position keeper on the left of the attack screen has a graphical representation of the torpedo course on the lower of the two dials (the upper dial showing relative bearing IIRC) So when the bottom dial shows a straight line shot that is when you should shoot. (and hopefully you top dial will show 90 AOB) Sometimes the solution shows on the attack map too but recently I seem to have lost the torpedo line from mine. EDIT- Scroll down the forum alittle to "Yet another TDC question" and there is a thread about this very thing. __________________ Like music only more painful http://profile.myspace.com/index.cfm...ndID=108090746

04-13-07, 09:16 AM	#3
Egan Admiral Join Date: Sep 2001 Posts: 2,020 Downloads: 15 Uploads: 0	Speed is the killer and AVGWarhawk is right, the best way to compensate for that is to be as close as possible. I usually hold off until I'm at 1000 yards or less and at that range, you can be a couple of knots of and still hit, (usually.)