[REL] U-boat Historical Specifications (UHS)

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Originally Posted by jwilliams

Thanks for the quick reply...

It's not that the uboat doesn't get the correct range. It's that the earth in SH is much larger the further north or south you are compared to real.

e.g. Breast, France to Boston, USA is over 10,000 Km in Silent Hunter, but is only about 6,000 Km along the real life Great Circle.

This is because SH is played on a Mercator projection of the world, where the shortest distance between two points is a loxodrome, or a line of constant heading, however the shortest distance between two points on the surface of the earth is a Great Circle. This results in increasing map scale in SH as you go further from the equator.

Interesting information, I will do some furthers tests and verify the changes....