Is 1-2 big ships per patroll good?

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Originally Posted by AVGWarhawk

Convience for sure. Think about it. You at the scope calling out the AOB, speed, course. Your TDC man making the adjustments. In the this game you cannot not call out the figures. So the lock acts as the voice command. This is why I use weapons officer assist so he can dial in the figures. It gets to be to much without assist.

Everytime you click on the checkmark on the notepad, it will (unaudibly) call that info to the TDC. The "lock on" feature is independant of this.

The periscope is "wired" into the TDC and will update the "bearing to target" in real time... again, independently of wether your "locked on" to something or are just swiveling your periscope around pointing at thin air. Here's the magical part: as your "bearing to target" is updated in real time by swiveling the scope around, the computer recalculates the AoB setting to compensate for your changing viewpoint. For this said recalculation the computer assumes that whatever your looking at is in your crosshairs. Speed is maintained constant and distance is unfortunately not recalculated in real time, so you might want to "call out" updates on that one... but be sure to clear the notepad of all other information, otherwise it will most probably screw up your AoB (the value leftover on the notepad was valid at some point, but not anymore, and clicking on the notepad with that value still there will force said bogus value in the TDC)