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It should be labeled "metric, imperial, automatic" instead of authentic. The authentic setting just simply picks imperial for the US subs and metric for the German subs.
I would suggest playing on metric for U-boats and imperial for fleet boats, in other words "authentic" and forget it. I'm pretty sure the numerical readout from the sonar range is always in the correct meters or yards but the dial itself is only for meters. |
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Being Canadian, I chose 'metric' but then I noticed once the game started that the crew called out measurements in metres but the speeds were still nautical miles. Why didn't that get converted too? Kind hard to play in metric if one of the references is still 'imperial'.
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Even in modern navies (and aviation, for that matter) speed is still measured in knots. That's just the way it is: neither metric nor imperial, but nautical. Originally in the US a nautical mile was considered to be 2000 yards, or 6000 feet. The International Hydrographic Convention of 1929 set the nautical mile at exactly 1852 metres, or 6076.1155 feet. The US didn't adopt that standard until after WW2.
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Even in WWII, the nautical mile wasn't exactly 2000 yards. They used 2000 yards to the mile for estimating and for easy calculation. The error was much less significant than errors in measurement, so calculations worked fine in practice. There's an exhaustive discussion of that in Edward Beach's Run Silent Run Deep Trilogy.
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I'd go imperial units for fleet boats and metric units for u-boats...
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