[REL] Easy AOB

[Rockin Robbins]

This is a pretty big deal. It restores a lot of reality to our TDC. In the real thing there was no send button between the input cranks and output dials. Everything was a real time operation. This mod produces that functionality. I never could understand the crazy send buttons!

Then it introduces direct input of range, again with no necessity to hit a send button. This is another feature that was part of the real TDC but mucked up in the game. AND we can still directly input from the stadimeter. (none of the dials is called the stadimeter. The stadimeter is an angle measurement device in the periscope, matched to a calculator that changes that angle into a distance measurement.)

So we lose nothing but gain a lot of convenience. Good show!

Our next very large deficit in the way the US TDC worked is that we don't have the direct link between periscope and TDC that the real boats did. Just like the U-Boats, the US Boats could do the Fast-90 attack, where the periscope bearing automatically altered the AoB in the TDC. Dick O'Kane did it and described the process in one of his books. He would let the periscope update the TDC while he aimed ahead of the target, shooting as the target crossed the wire. He could only do that with a direct periscope/TDC link.