Learning manual targeting

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Originally Posted by hatemf90

Well no.. I didnt fire stern and bow torps, i fired 4 from the bow, repositioned then fired another 4, non of them even reached the ship, and the plotting wasnt that far off. I guess it was just a really unlucky moment.

For learning manual targeting, I recommend the Admiral Christie dream settings - Turn dud torpedoes off in the options. Once you learn manual targeting methods, and there are a number of different methods to learn, you can go back to frustrating yourself and seeing how frustrating (and deadly) it was for the actual skippers. But wondering if your technique is correct or if it's something in the game isn't helping you.

I also play the game with the assumption that I'm the captain, and the other crew on board aren't there so we can have a good game of poker or shuffle board. A number of real skippers made a point of having others handle the details of the attack including making the periscope observations -- Mush Morton being one of these using O'Kane to make observations.

However, other posters are correct, that we have too much "accurate" information. For example, O'Kane on Tang consistently greatly overestimated ship sizes which would have thrown off his periscope range and speed estimates (if speed was determined by successive periscope observations). But he was very successful - it seemed that he estimated speed from sonar noises and bow waves. Again not as accurate as we can, but generally accurate enough for the attacks he made (distance, angle, and spread).

Tom