perfected my convoy attacking....

[thegroo]

Great idea.

I'll have to try it.

Regards
Dieter

[kylania]

Wow! That's very very impressive!

[LoneTraveller]

I do that but only with the automatic targeting. Cause I admit that I can't shoot (even less mesure the speed of a ship) in manual targeting mode.

I admire you

The thing I'm working on now is how to attack a convoy (that is in a square formation) but from a diagonal angle through the square itself and shoot at the furthest targets (along the shootable perimeter) then the ones closer and closer. The idea is that the first column and row (like in a matrix) like be destroyed in one attack. I am working on it with a type XXI cause it has enough torps and reloads fast enough.

I wish there was a simple way to make correspond the knots speed, distance (in meters) and seconds so that all torps would hit at the same time :hmm: Anybody have ideas how to do this ?

[Dantenoc]

Brilliant ... shows what a person can do when he bothers to think out a problem a bit .

Just one thing, though... I take it you don't use any of the major mods? The reason I ask is that I haven't been able to use sound for determining speed since I modded my game (some modder thought it would be cool to change all the ship's sounds )... I haven't been able to figure the new RPM to speed convertions since

If anyone has info on this please share

[Emcon]

when they cross the 0.. watch the fireworks

LMAO

Very nice, Gutted!

[Sawdust]

Ditto what the others have said. Great idea. Nice video and animated gif file, too; both are well made.

Based on your idea, I was thinking that if you were to obtain an obtuse angle to the ships you'd have more time between torpedoes needing to be launched...but then the ships wouldn't be hit at the same time and the later ships might be able to change speed or course.

[gutted]

Originally Posted by Dantenoc

Brilliant ... shows what a person can do when he bothers to think out a problem a bit .

Just one thing, though... I take it you don't use any of the major mods? The reason I ask is that I haven't been able to use sound for determining speed since I modded my game (some modder thought it would be cool to change all the ship's sounds )... I haven't been able to figure the new RPM to speed convertions since

If anyone has info on this please share

i use the GW mod, but i replaced their hydrophone sounds with the original ones.

[CptGrayWolf]

Holysmoke does this really work!? http://www.jg52.com/gutted/sh3/Animation2.gif
Sounds like something that should work in theory, but what about practice?
Maybe one of our resident U-boat experts can tell us if this method was ever used.

[abel29a]

Originally Posted by CptGrayWolf

Holysmoke does this really work!? http://www.jg52.com/gutted/sh3/Animation2.gif
Sounds like something that should work in theory, but what about practice?
Maybe one of our resident U-boat experts can tell us if this method was ever used.

This works like a charm, I use it myself with great success. It's simple geometry after all. When you fire your torpedoes at the same angle at several targets the distance the target travels from that point to the torpedo running vector is proportional to the distance from the target to your boat. As long as all the targets and your torpedos travel at the same speed they must intercept eachother on the 0 angle bearing. The distance measure for a 0 angle shot is therefore of no importance whatsoever. Took me a little while to get my head around that one

I only bother with updating the range to a target when I want the correct running time.

As for RL use - well, I doubt convoys where as regular as they are in SHIII, even a little zig zagging would make hitting the further targets much more difficult. And as far as I know, except Kretschmer and a few select one would probably launch more than one torpedo per target, thus making a perfect 4 hit wonder salvo less probable.