Constant Bearing Method, with TDC

[Rockin Robbins]

Originally Posted by Pacific_Ace

RR sez:
"Now lets take the situation where you shoot after AoB 90 and the torpedo is approaching from astern of the beam. Here, if the target turns left, he turns broadside to the torpedo, presenting a much larger target to hit, thank you very much, he has suddenly made his situation much worse and BOOM!"

I sez: I'm thinking this through in my head and coming up with 'thats only valid if he's turning into the direction the shot came from'. If he turns away, he is showing you his stern and reducing cross-section.

That's true, but in this situation he would have to turn right to do that. I've already positied a rule that Japanese merchie captains turn left when they see a torpedo.

It seems to me that if there were a merchie rule, I'd make it that if the torpdeo approaches from aft of the beam you turn away, if from forward of the beam, you turn toward. However, I was working from the theoretical rule that frederf put into his post, just to illustrate that just like in real life we could anticpate habits of the enemy and turn them into sinkings.

Unfortunately, I have seen very few habits other than the dragster behavior when torpedoes are sighted.