Target speed calculation made easy

[Hitman]

None of you torpedo gurus commented further on this, is this true? TDC overestimates Mk14 speed on high setting?

We didn't think it was necessary as that was fixed in the 1.2 patch long ago

[OlegM]

Originally Posted by Hitman

We didn't think it was necessary as that was fixed in the 1.2 patch long ago

Ah OK thanks. I do still get weird results with manual targeting sometimes - I don't know if it's due to me being an idiot, some game mechanics that I do not understand, a bug, or historic faulty gyroscopic guidance on torpedos (simulated by the game).

[NefariousKoel]

Mr. Mastruko-
The gyros have a little bit of play in the Mk14s in-game. I believe the depth keeping has a small variable to it also. Not to mention the extremely small chance that one will circle around back at you.


Also, if you're using the Imperial system, a couple things are still calculated in Metric such as the Stadimeter and torpedo depth. This is the biggest problem maker for me.

[RedHammer]

Hi all



After the new release of the SH4 Addon Uboat Missions. I believe I am experiencing what I hope to be just a nightmare in my sleep: Target speed again rendered useless...

and even if it did work.. its not like normal sh4 after it was fixed.. anybody got a clue on how to get it working?

Sincerely Yours

RH

[Rockin Robbins]

I'm afraid you're not in Kansas any more.

[Wilcke]

...that screen shot looks vaguely familiar.....

[DevilThorn]

It does not work like it did in sh3. But it works just like in the american subs. Get two range calculations and then hit the get speed button.

[LukeFF]

Originally Posted by DevilThorn

It does not work like it did in sh3. But it works just like in the american subs. Get two range calculations and then hit the get speed button.

And then you have to enter in the AOB.

[RedHammer]

Yeah I figured it out, the settings of the TDC was different, so that`s why I messed up, one look in my SHIII manual cleared it all up for me

Thanks!


Sincerely Yours

RH

[commandosolo2009]

could you be kind enough to make one for the metric system. And please explain what is bearing change.

[Pisces]

Originally Posted by commandosolo2009

could you be kind enough to make one for the metric system. And please explain what is bearing change.

Yards are about 1/10th shorter than a meter. So take the metric distance in meters and add 10% to find the line in the table.

A bearing change is the difference in the viewing direction through the periscope (or TBT, hydrophone sensor, etc.) of 2 moments you point it at the target.

Imagine standing alongside a road with a car approaching from your left. As it comes closer, the direction to it(=bearing) slowly starts to drift to one side of you. Once it passes you, the direction moves at it's quickest. (Be careful not to strain you neck ) As it has passed you, the changing of the view direction slows down again until it is at the horizon. The table assumes you measure this view-direction change while he is passing the moment when the AOB is 90 degrees.

[yubba]

1ft/sec = 0.592kt works for me.

[Daniel Prates]

Originally Posted by Pisces

Yards are about 1/10th shorter than a meter. So take the metric distance in meters and add 10% to find the line in the table.

Interesting issue since few people in this forum are used to metric system. I just happen to live in a country were metric system applies to everything, so it's feet and miles and knots that makes things weird. But you get used to it.

So what's a yard? It is legally defined as beint exactely 0.9144 metre. That is the weird translation to it, since it is so much uneven. But it is also legally defined as being 3 FEET, or 36 INCHES. So it is a unit that belongs to the anglo-american system.

[Platapus]

Perhaps one of these decades the US will go metric.

If it were not for the drug trade, our kids would never learn the metric system.

[Rockin Robbins]

The sizes of metric measurements just don't fit the world, people or the things in it very well. When designing environments for humans, using measurements derived from basic human characteristics is appropriate. That is why the metric system will never be adopted in the US.

However, for dimensions having nothing to do with human beings, astronomical measurements, microscopic measurements, atomic physical properties, etc, there is some justification for using the metric system. In any event there is no decent excuse for any one not having a decent understanding of the metric system.

That doesn't mean that measuring my height in centimeters or weight in kilograms or the size of a room in meters isn't utterly ridiculous. Dimensions for tools and environments for use by man should be based on measurements and proportions of man. Base 10 is inappropriate, as physical properties are based on multiples of small prime numbers. Hence the common 12 units, 6 units, three units and other non decimal ratios in the English measurement system. You thought they were arbitrary? Think again. They are natural.

I know! Let's decree that the ratio between the diameter and circumference of a circle must be 10 for ease of calculation! Since when is ease of calculation justification for the destruction of natural truth?