Realism of the Map and WO-generated Fire Control Solutions

[Blood_splat]

"It would be awesome if in SH5; the quality of your map depended entirely on how rested and well trained your crew was -- a poorly trained bridge crew that's tired would plot an attack map that bore no relation to reality -- ships misidentified, ranges wrong, bearings wrong; and slow to update."

Yeah but during combat wouln't adrenalin kick in and make your crew focus on the task at hand?

I don't think being tired would cut it with most sub commanders for an excuse.

[Apocal]

Just wanted to see how many others are interested in a feature like this. Because I am.

[VirtualVikingX]

I'm with you on this Apo.

[sayaret]

i get your point, but as somone said already, things like experience or being tired in reality wouldnt affect map plotting at all. These are two diffrent things.

[Ragtag]

Another thing is the way of "knowing" your crews skill. When you know your crew ain't experts, you definatly know that the solution you get will be wrong 90% of the time. Due to this you know that you will miss unless you check for a solution yourself. It kinda makes a feature like this useless. It would be cool with a random feature like this but i don't think it would work well gamewise.

[Leif...]

Even if the crew isn't experienced in real combat, they should be well trained and fully capable to what they where trained to do, even on their first mission.

[Hitman]

I simply assume that it's my crew that's taking down the bearings from the guy manning the periscope and plotting them on the map.

But in a real WW2 UBoat that guy was YOU as commander

When conducting surface attacks at night it was the IWO who gave the target data to the TDC operator, and the commander simply directed the uboat and payed attention to the tactical situation. But in all submerged attacks, it was the commander who did it all.

It would be awesome if in SH5; the quality of your map depended entirely on how rested and well trained your crew was -- a poorly trained bridge crew that's tired would plot an attack map that bore no relation to reality -- ships misidentified, ranges wrong, bearings wrong; and slow to update.

A plot was conducted only in surface during daytime when doing an end-around a convoy or fast ship. In those cases, it was again the commander who conned the boat and gave to the navigator bearings and ranges to make a plot.

Likewise; when I lock onto a ship and tell my Weapons officer to give me a bearing to fire in SH3; I wished that the accuracy and speed in which he generated a fire control solution depended on his experience.

That would be absolutely correct in historic terms