Manual Targeting - Is There a Halfway-House

[banryu79]

Originally Posted by ParaHandy

I'm curious as to the effects the two separate boxes have. WO Assistance, and Manual Targeting. I can pretty much intercept a ship/convoy and get myself lined up to 90 degrees to the target almost without fail. How much of a stretch is it from here?

I like to keep WO on, just for confirm the identification of ships and I never use him to compute a fire solution.
I mean, I always do the ID process by myself and then, when I have choosen the target ID, I just ask for the WO "opinion" to know if I guessed correctly or not.
In this way I'm able to estimate my successful IDs rate and is something around 80%.

About manual targeting: I'm currently playing my very first war patrol (secondo patrol in GWX, starting in 1939) and I'm doing manual tageting.
I think it is no difficult, and indeed a fun part of the game.

The method mentioned by Nukesub, the "Fast 90° attack" is a good starting point.
Then you can read and learn about the "Straight shot" and the "Perfect shot" methods (you can find a document about them if you download hsGUI mod). Here is a post in which I talk about them.