SH5 Dick'O Kane (DoK) Tutorial

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Originally Posted by Aufklarer

The fact remains that i am demonstrating the DoK method of attack, the intricacies of which are immaterial, i followed his supposed method taking an arbitrary lead angle and managed to produce consistant results. It is possible to work out every detail to 8 decimal places, but this isnt required for me to sink ships.

If you actually follow the Rockin Robbin DoK tutorials... he picks an arbitrary lead angle.. then sets up the TDC for what the target would be AT that lead angle. This ofcourse because the U.S. AOB and Periscope are not linked in SHIV, so you just have to pick a point (using his method). But it's still using the TDC to figure out where to point the torpedoes.

That said, if the angle you pick does not result in a zero gyro.. you are still going to need the range if you want complete accuracy. Depending on how far away your are it may not be needed. The error will depend mostly on how fast the target is moving and how far away you are.

In any case though.. .it's just Rockin Robbin's preffered method with Dick Okane's name attached to it because he wanted to. Just like the same version of this when approaching a 45 degree angle he named it the J.P. Cromwell.

This is just common sense stuff and i will never call it those things.