[REL] 3D TDC and Radar Range Unit

[Nisgeis]

Originally Posted by sergei

Some Feedback:

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Originally Posted by sergei

Loaded up a single mission (TMO+RSRD) that had me patrolling just south of the Bungo Suido in late '42.

Target 1:


My initial 5 marks showed him going vaguely SSE, but I wasn't sure if maybe he'd made a turn at some point or was zig-zagging.

That plot looks like a definate zig to me. You were lucky, as the zig legs aren't massive and I think if you'd left it much longer the target may have zigged away after you fired. I wonder what the average zig length in RSRD is. There are all sorts of rules about when to fire e.g. if the target hasn't sizgged in the last 15 minutes, wait until it does zig and then fire and all sorts of stuff like that.

Originally Posted by sergei

Once I was close enough to get a stad reading I activated the PK and would watch the attack develop on the TDC (occasionally taking another range reading to keep it updated).

It's very important to remember that if you update the range and bearing then, due to a bug in the TDC which does not update the AoB as if the target had moved along the track, you must update the course to what you measured it as, or the TDC will be tracking a different problem.

Originally Posted by sergei

A thought: whilst switching off the radar between readings may make it easier to use because it remembers your last range and bearing, doesn't that also switch off your air search radar? Or is it always on regardless of the state of your surface search radar?

A question: my Gato had listed in the equipment screen an early SJ radar with a range of 20,000 yards. However, I was getting contact out to about 40,000. Is that to do with this mod, or have I FUBARED my game again?

I don't think you can turn off the air search radar, only the SJ.

I think I used the stock setting for ranges, but I may have been drunk when I did it, or sober, or both! Any of those could have caused me to screw something up.

Originally Posted by I'm goin' down

I attacked an Akita Maru with map contacts on, but I plotted the readings. I have given up on manual speed calcs. I used the TDC for that. However the TDC course determinations were inaccurate.

You can't blame the TDC for vastly wrong course and speed, as it's only going off what you tell it. I still can't work out how you managed to get a target going over a 100 knots as that would mean a massive reading or plotting error - are you sure you aren't manouvering between reading and plotting.