Help a Wolf kill his Prey

[A Very Super Market]

Are you using manual targeting?

[bigboywooly]

Dont forget to open the bow caps before firing
Q on the keyboard

[Captain Birdseye]

Originally Posted by A Very Super Market

Are you using manual targeting?

I'm not sure sorry. All I know is that I line the boat with the 0 point on the periscope, then fire torpedos. They definatley exit the boat as i have seen the gas trails.

Could it be because I am using the black and bronze torpedos

Thanks

[mookiemookie]

Originally Posted by Captain Birdseye

I'm not sure sorry.

When you look at a target ship in your periscope/UZO, is it identified for you? Does the range measurement automatically change as the ship moves along? If it does, you're using auto targeting. If not, you have manual targeting on. Knowing this will help us diagnose what's going on here.

[Captain Birdseye]

In that case, it is automatic.

The ships type and speed are shown when I look at it with the periscope.

It also has a Gyro heading below, what is that for?

thank you.

[A Very Super Market]

Do you open your torpedo tubes?

Use "Q" to do that.

[Captain Birdseye]

I just had a go at pressing Q, and it worked great. I used the TI instead of the TII's. It worked great. I sunk a merchant.

However, I can't get the tubes to close again by pressing Q.

One last thing, the radioman always reports a message recieved, but when i ask for messages, he says no messages recieved! How come?

[Sailor Steve]

Originally Posted by Captain Birdseye

I just had a go at pressing Q, and it worked great. I used the TI instead of the TII's. It worked great. I sunk a merchant.

However, I can't get the tubes to close again by pressing Q.

One last thing, the radioman always reports a message recieved, but when i ask for messages, he says no messages recieved! How come?

'W' closes the tubes, but they close automatically after firing, or else the crew couldn't reload them.

When the radioman reports a messaged recieved, press the 'M' key. This will take you to the message screen, where you can read them.

[mookiemookie]

Originally Posted by Captain Birdseye

In that case, it is automatic.

The ships type and speed are shown when I look at it with the periscope.

It also has a Gyro heading below, what is that for?

thank you.

Here's a nice little diagram explaining exactly what's going on in a torpedo attack:



A gyro heading is the direction the torpedo will travel in to reach the ship you're shooting at. That would be the heading of the torpedo track in the above diagram. Those are the three numbers below the notepad in the game. If you're shooting from the front tubes, you ideally want that number to be between 355 and 005 degrees. That means the gyro angle of the torpedo is small, meaning it doesn't have to turn much once it leaves the torpedo tube. the greater the gyro angle, the lower the success rate of the torpedo attack.