manual targeting - speed

[Rockin Robbins]

If you are concerned about realism, OLC's GUI is authentic. However your perfect knowledge of ships' lengths and aspect ratios is not. The unpronounceable gizmo OLC GUI replicates was VERY infrequently used during the war because of the underlying imperfect length and aspect ratio data. That doesn't mean it wasn't an ingenious device. It just means that their database didn't allow them to properly exploit its usefulness.

When we are busily pretending we are playing on "high realism" I'm afraid we're doing nothing of the sort. Playing at "100% realism" is the perfect illustration as you toss your radar usefulness completely out the window to do so and most of your sonar info as well. It's like driving your car with a paper bag over your head: it's admirable if you survive, but nothing more than a stunt of skill.