Targeting ships that are changing direction

[Rockin Robbins]

Originally Posted by Armistead

In this game actual course changes are rare in a group, although TMO does use them about 10 nms. What happens is if you're spotted, then zig zag along the same course and almost always slow down, sometimes they all scatter at different speeds which is more realistic. I just get speed, course for AOB and shoot a spread of 3 front to stern unless a capital ship...shoot them all. With practice u can sort of time the zig if close enough and you learn to shoot by the wire guessing where it's gonna be.

But once you are sighted then zigging becomes random and frequent. The convoy will scatter and your job becomes to decide whether to fill the water with torpedoes to ensure a couple of hits or just to wait the 30 minutes or an hour for them to calm down, reform the convoy and let you be more efficient with your torpedoes.

That's why my deal is that waiting an hour is better than schlepping two weeks back to port for more torpedoes. Yes, you can do spreads and hit them but the cost just doesn't make sense.