To everyone that thinks manual targetting is too difficult...

Paulski · 06-14-11, 04:46 PM

it really isn't!

I started playing SH3 with fully automatic targetting, but this soon became boring to me, but when reading all the tutorials about manual targetting I found it too complicated. I then read about enabling manual targetting but leaving everything to the weapons officer. Well, after a while that started to become too easy (and thus boring) too...

Then I remembered that all those tutorials were about manual input too, and thus omitting the manual targetting as intended in the game, through the notepad! I do the data gathering, but leave to input to the "weapon officer" (I may be wrong, but in real life, didn't the weapon officer put in the data into the TDC?).

So this is what I do:

1. I plot the ship's course, and get in position at a 90 degree angle, around 600-700 meters from the ship's course (I've seen in a documentary that the average attack distance was 600 meters).

2. I identify the ship

3. I hit F5 and use the ruler to estimate the distance. then I go back to the periscope (or UZO) and get the range through the notebook, and click the tick to confirm, and once again to update the TDC.

4. Instead of estimating the AoB, I go to the nav map again, and use the protractor to measure the AoB. I then set it in the notebook, confirm it, and update the TDC.

5. All that's left is to measure the speed, wich is the easiest part (as long as you have a decent distance and AoB estimation). Update the TDC and there you go

In the attack map the course for the torpedo's may look wrong (as in too long range), but still all my torpedo's hit (except the duds offcourse). I also found that the closer you are to the ship, the less it matters how accurate your data is. But it will be more challenging, the further you are away from the ship. Also, you can leave the nav map out if you want a bit more challenge

This really changed my gameplay experience (together with disabling the exterior cams), and I advice you to at least try it, it's really not that hard!

06-14-11, 04:46 PM	#1
Paulski A-ganger Join Date: Jun 2010 Posts: 74 Downloads: 47 Uploads: 0	To everyone that thinks manual targetting is too difficult... it really isn't! I started playing SH3 with fully automatic targetting, but this soon became boring to me, but when reading all the tutorials about manual targetting I found it too complicated. I then read about enabling manual targetting but leaving everything to the weapons officer. Well, after a while that started to become too easy (and thus boring) too... Then I remembered that all those tutorials were about manual input too, and thus omitting the manual targetting as intended in the game, through the notepad! I do the data gathering, but leave to input to the "weapon officer" (I may be wrong, but in real life, didn't the weapon officer put in the data into the TDC?). So this is what I do: 1. I plot the ship's course, and get in position at a 90 degree angle, around 600-700 meters from the ship's course (I've seen in a documentary that the average attack distance was 600 meters). 2. I identify the ship 3. I hit F5 and use the ruler to estimate the distance. then I go back to the periscope (or UZO) and get the range through the notebook, and click the tick to confirm, and once again to update the TDC. 4. Instead of estimating the AoB, I go to the nav map again, and use the protractor to measure the AoB. I then set it in the notebook, confirm it, and update the TDC. 5. All that's left is to measure the speed, wich is the easiest part (as long as you have a decent distance and AoB estimation). Update the TDC and there you go In the attack map the course for the torpedo's may look wrong (as in too long range), but still all my torpedo's hit (except the duds offcourse). I also found that the closer you are to the ship, the less it matters how accurate your data is. But it will be more challenging, the further you are away from the ship. Also, you can leave the nav map out if you want a bit more challenge This really changed my gameplay experience (together with disabling the exterior cams), and I advice you to at least try it, it's really not that hard!