First experience with manual navigation in GWX

Kumando · 01-12-07, 04:31 PM

Corsair if one has land on sight (i mean you can see land from your binoculars) can we simulate that the navigator would be able to fix your position using the ctrl click?

Corsair · 01-12-07, 06:41 PM

Well I am not the navigation guru to allow things or not.

I just explained what I was doing, you do it like you feel... Personnally as long as I see land and I know what part of land it is, that's enough to know where I am and give a bearing to the helm crew...

Kumando · 01-13-07, 06:18 AM

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Originally Posted by Corsair

Well I am not the navigation guru to allow things or not.

I just explained what I was doing, you do it like you feel... Personnally as long as I see land and I know what part of land it is, that's enough to know where I am and give a bearing to the helm crew...

Thanks thats what i thought

What is really troubling me is that when i find a merchant or a destroyer and im forced to leave off course and if its bad weather im not going to have a clue where i am afterwards

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Sailor Steve · 01-13-07, 11:40 AM

That's a real-life problem; in bad weather there is nothing to take a sighting on. Dead reckoning sucks.

Kumando · 01-13-07, 01:55 PM

Im enjoying a lot manual navigation i think its definitely adopted

but till now only good weather lol.

Corsair · 01-13-07, 05:20 PM

In bad weather you just have to draw your course on the map with the ruler every time you change heading and estimate the distance you sailed on that course, knowing your speed and the elapsed time since last mark. If you do it seriously and watch the drift on your compass when surfaced, you should never be very far away from where you think you are....

Kumando · 01-13-07, 06:19 PM

What about the 3 minute and 15 rule? I was chasing a lone merchant and he was deviating is course constatly and with the 3 minute rule i would try to estimate is course but without knowing my real position its kind of tricky, what do you do to calculate is course?

01-12-07, 06:41 PM	#2
Corsair Ace of the Deep Join Date: Nov 2006 Location: Toulouse France Posts: 1,140 Downloads: 51 Uploads: 0	Well I am not the navigation guru to allow things or not. I just explained what I was doing, you do it like you feel... Personnally as long as I see land and I know what part of land it is, that's enough to know where I am and give a bearing to the helm crew... __________________ NYGM 3.4A / Living SH3 V5.1 + SH3 Commander

01-13-07, 11:40 AM	#4
Sailor Steve Eternal Patrol Join Date: Nov 2002 Location: High in the mountains of Utah Posts: 50,369 Downloads: 745 Uploads: 249	That's a real-life problem; in bad weather there is nothing to take a sighting on. Dead reckoning sucks. __________________ “Never do anything you can't take back.” —Rocky Russo

01-13-07, 05:20 PM	#6
Corsair Ace of the Deep Join Date: Nov 2006 Location: Toulouse France Posts: 1,140 Downloads: 51 Uploads: 0	In bad weather you just have to draw your course on the map with the ruler every time you change heading and estimate the distance you sailed on that course, knowing your speed and the elapsed time since last mark. If you do it seriously and watch the drift on your compass when surfaced, you should never be very far away from where you think you are.... __________________ NYGM 3.4A / Living SH3 V5.1 + SH3 Commander

01-12-07, 04:31 PM	#1
Kumando Commodore Join Date: Sep 2005 Location: Portugal Posts: 639 Downloads: 283 Uploads: 0	Corsair if one has land on sight (i mean you can see land from your binoculars) can we simulate that the navigator would be able to fix your position using the ctrl click?

01-13-07, 01:55 PM	#5
Kumando Commodore Join Date: Sep 2005 Location: Portugal Posts: 639 Downloads: 283 Uploads: 0	Im enjoying a lot manual navigation i think its definitely adopted but till now only good weather lol.

01-13-07, 06:19 PM	#7
Kumando Commodore Join Date: Sep 2005 Location: Portugal Posts: 639 Downloads: 283 Uploads: 0	What about the 3 minute and 15 rule? I was chasing a lone merchant and he was deviating is course constatly and with the 3 minute rule i would try to estimate is course but without knowing my real position its kind of tricky, what do you do to calculate is course?