What am i doing wrong? (manual targeting)

[Hondo314]

Originally Posted by Nuoz

Also when i hit F6 and try to manually change settings i get no digits whatsoever, help please.

I'm not sure I understand what you're referring to exactly here. Are you saying you are unable to adjust any of the settings manually because the dials won't turn? Please clarify.

[fair_weather]

AoB...that was the one thing I had trouble with...however...I did what all skippers do...use what I have available.

I thought to myself, what is angle on bow really? It's an angle...duh...do we have anything onboard that calculates angles...

...how bout the protractor!

Fairly easy. Go to the nav screen, find your target ship, grab the protractor and if the ship is moving slow enough, click on the bow of the ship and go down the length of it until you reach the mid point of it, then click again and finally drag the final point to your subs position.

Tada! Angle on bow! And it worked the few times I tried it.

[P_Funk]

You can figure out AoB mathematically or by visual estimation.

AoB = (Target Bearing due North - Target Course) +/- 180

This works well for attacking convoys that you've observed enough to get the course down accurately. However for lone ships estimation is your best bet when you cant take good measurements of target ocurse.

[Nuoz]

Originally Posted by Hondo314

I'm not sure I understand what you're referring to exactly here. Are you saying you are unable to adjust any of the settings manually because the dials won't turn? Please clarify.

I meant there is no actuall figures around the knobs but i figured that out. I'm still reading the rest of the replies