Lenght of ship

[Rockin Robbins]

Where's all that rain I can drop on your parade? Oh, here it is, lurking above me!

First of all, determining target speed by timing target length by the wire is a technique that nobody used during the war. Why? Because we didn't know what the length of the target was. In SH4 our recognition manual has precise information about every single ship on the ocean. The real thing? Don't make me laugh. When it did have information it was often wrong. When it was right, the captain chose the wrong target anyway.

The majority of targets sunk during the war were misidentified. There was never any attempt to measure target speed by calculating from target length. It's a bogus technique that has for some reason, taken on a life of its own in Silent Hunter.

So using that is gaming the system, taking advantage of unrealistic information, just as those who know that by sonar you can hear screw sounds exactly two degrees to either side of the real bearing and then there is a sudden cutoff. They game the system to get an exact bearing to target by passive sonar when in real life the width would not only be wider, but the width would vary with conditions! Passive sonar bearings were about half as precise in real life as they are in SH4.

OK now that your parade is wetted down I'll let you get back to obtaining advice.