No Map Contacts = Unrealistic?

Beery · 10-17-05, 04:58 PM

I don't know about WaW - I never used it.

I used to do it without any contact lines or anything. You don't need them. Here's what I do. I get a hydrophone contact and I approach it until I get a visual contact. I then dive and mark the position on my world map. If the target is heading away I do an 'end around', marking his position every few minutes until I get a good cours for him. If he's coming towards me I get an approximate course and dive and position myself to get a 90 degree shot. In both cases, once I'm in position I stop and listen with hydrophones. I make small corrections to my angle of attack and get to about 1000 yards off his projected course. Then I wait and listen until he's a few degrees short of being dead ahead. Then I pop up the periscope, take a Range reading, put in the angle (which should be approaching 90), and calculate the speed. This takes 30 seconds max. Then I update the angle to his present position and fire at least two torpedoes with a 5 degree spread.

10-17-05, 04:58 PM	#6
Beery Admiral Join Date: Nov 2004 Location: Silver Spring, MD, USA (but still a Yorkshireman at heart - tha can allus tell a Yorkshireman...) Posts: 2,497 Downloads: 0 Uploads: 0	I don't know about WaW - I never used it. I used to do it without any contact lines or anything. You don't need them. Here's what I do. I get a hydrophone contact and I approach it until I get a visual contact. I then dive and mark the position on my world map. If the target is heading away I do an 'end around', marking his position every few minutes until I get a good cours for him. If he's coming towards me I get an approximate course and dive and position myself to get a 90 degree shot. In both cases, once I'm in position I stop and listen with hydrophones. I make small corrections to my angle of attack and get to about 1000 yards off his projected course. Then I wait and listen until he's a few degrees short of being dead ahead. Then I pop up the periscope, take a Range reading, put in the angle (which should be approaching 90), and calculate the speed. This takes 30 seconds max. Then I update the angle to his present position and fire at least two torpedoes with a 5 degree spread. __________________ "More mysterious. Yeah. I'll just try to think, 'Where the hell's the whiskey?'" - Bob Harris, Lost in Translation. "Anyrooad up, ah'll si thi" - Missen.