Simultaneous Targeting

[kylania]

I just did this tonight, had a perfect setup where all four lead ships in a convoy were gonna get hit at the same time. I made one mistake... I fired early at the last ship (the one i was closest to) and hit it first instead of at the same time. It was the lead ship for the convoy, so as it slowed down, EVERYONE slowed down. This meant that the far ship didn't get hit since it slowed before the torpedo got to it. The third one was just barely hit.

There's a really great gif animation somewhere that shows this concept, I'll try to find it.

Found it!

The blue line is your course, the green line represents your shoot bearing. As the target crosses the shoot bearing, no matter what his range, he gets tagged. Neat, huh?

Words thanks to Rockin Robbins and image courtesy of gutted.