Guilty Secret

Rockin Robbins · 09-08-10, 10:12 AM

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Originally Posted by Thrair

What I mean by eyeballing it is I get very close, look at the angle off the bow, and make a rough guess at the target's speed. I then use the torpedo spread angle to lead the target ship, and fire several torpedos at high speed with very slightly varying spread angles to increase the odds of hitting it. With a big enough ship, or if it's a convoy, I fire all my forward tubes.

You may think this is "sloppy" but it is also a very effective technique from short range! With practice, you can get to the point where you can sink just about anything with two or three "eyeball method" shots.

It also helps you when you graduate to more precise methods. When you've made some kind of mistake and entered numbers that just won't hit the target, your experience with eyeballing will tell you your solution is garbage. Instead of wasting torpedoes you'll rework the solution.

Looks to me that you're doing things just right and just looking to put more tricks in your bag. Stuff that bad to the breaking point and then you'll start pulling out the best trick for every situation.

Please note that in my "Bag of Tricks" thread (link in my siggy below) I don't put up with people who say they're posting instructions and substitute simple brags. My test is that a set of instructions must completely spill the beans so that you can read the instructions and end up shooting just as well as the author. Substitution of simple bragging for pretended instruction is beneath contempt.

I'm afraid that on occasion I've stretched Subsim rules to the breaking point in exposing these frauds. It's not as if they haven't deserved it.

Now if you use one of the methods in the thread and want to post a "brag post" about how great a skipper it made you, then that is totally allowed! We WANT people to encourage each other by bragging on their accomplishments there. Anyone can learn to manually target. It's easy and it lends a whole new dimension and sense of accomplishment to any of the Silent Hunter games.