question on gyro angle and moving periscope to target front of ship

[Stormflux]

Originally Posted by Major Johnson

While we're on this targeting topic...........I use auto targeting.......I was in a battle with sub chaser the other night and I found that the sub chaser was able to aviod my torpedos, so I wanted to lead it a little more. To do this I wanted to lead him out past where the targeting indicator stopped blinking. When I fired, my torp just went straight. I'm assuming this is because I didn't use the lock function first?

Yeah, with auto targeting you can't do this directly. The crosshairs have to be touching a target when you fire, or the torpedo will not have a target. You can adjust using the Spread angle if you want: if the target's at 020 and you want to shoot at 030 instead, adjust +10 degrees on the spread angle.

With manual targeting it's a lot easier. The TDC uses the mast height of the last target you touched regardless of where the scope is actually pointing. Then you just click ahead of (or behind) the target and if your other data is correct, the enemy should zig zag right into your shot. (My problem is I never know whether to aim ahead or behind, I want to say if he's turning toward you, aim ahead and if he's turning away aim behind, but I could be wrong).