Small but important request for the rec. manual in SHV.

[Hitman]

That sounds very good , but I hope that despite that we can input directly the mast heigth we want to use. Because real life captains estimated them quite more often than using a recognition manual, and anyway they could input mast heigth in the stadimeter.

The ability of the IWO to give you an estimate of distance to the selected target -and not simply of the "nearest visual contact" like in SH3, as it was there an unfinished feature- is also essential. We can practice a lot but after all, judging distance in the real sea is already difficult enough, let alone in a 2D screen

[KeptinCranky]

Hitman, I have no Idea, the version they showed us did not have a working stadimeter yet.

keep in mind that the dev working on this only came home this morning around 1am, from the subsim meet so he'll have today off, I'm guessing.

[karamazovnew]

Great info Cranky... That the captain wouldn't have his manual in his hand while rotating the periscope, but call out important features so the WO can narrow down the possible id's seems very logical. It was a good decision by the devs, as expected.

The fact that they haven't yet finished the periscopes is also good news, we should underline the importance of having scopes with split prisms and AOBF while we have time (at least as upgrades). If we have those, iI doubt that they won't allow us to input ship mast manually, as we already can through mods in SH4

Hitman, from your pictures of the TDC I couldn't help notice the Ship Length dial (at least on that version)... Was it linked to a time dial to calculate target speed? Considering that the sub's own course and speed are known to the TDC, a mecanical computer like the TDC could calculate the target's speed for any bearing and at any speed I know that this question might be better suited for the TDC thread, but we're talking about Id manual, and as we know, the manual in sh4 did not include the length... If it is true that the germans had made such a feature for the TDC, that would also mean that the germans put a lot of faith in that piece of info.

[gutted]

Originally Posted by Hitman

The ability of the IWO to give you an estimate of distance to the selected target -and not simply of the "nearest visual contact" like in SH3, as it was there an unfinished feature- is also essential. We can practice a lot but after all, judging distance in the real sea is already difficult enough, let alone in a 2D screen

another pain in the butt is trying to get the sonar guy to follow the correct contact. all he seems to know is nearest ship & nearest warship.

[KeptinCranky]

You're right, unfortunately, we got no info on that, it may not have been built yet....

[Hitman]

Hitman, from your pictures of the TDC I couldn't help notice the Ship Length dial (at least on that version)... Was it linked to a time dial to calculate target speed? Considering that the sub's own course and speed are known to the TDC, a mecanical computer like the TDC could calculate the target's speed for any bearing and at any speed

Nope as far as I know. The TDC was mainly an angle solver and the speed inputs for target and torpedo are considered from a static point of view (i.e. length of the sides and not true motion of objects). What the TDC does is just tell you the lead angle for torpedo and target vectors intersect point, and also the resulting track angle at which they will intersect (And if the U-Boat is not aiming already at that lead angle, it will set it as Gyro Angle for the torpedoes and make the proper parallax correction). There is no actual input of "time" there which could be coaxed into providing a speed result.

[Sailor Steve]

I like Gutted's original suggestion: Have the manual subdivided into ship types, so you can just leaf through "Large Tankers" or "British Destroyers".

[KeptinCranky]

Steve, I don't think you'll be disappointed