How realistic do you play SH3

12-20-07, 08:43 AM

I'm getting bored of running box patterns around merchants and sinking them with one torpedo. It's time to get GWX and increase realism.

Under the "No Weapon Officer assistance" option the weapons officer doesn't calculate torpedo solutions? Then what is he there for? Shouldn't this increase the realism from 100% to 110%? It is my understanding that the captain determined the target information, and the weapons officer used it to calculate the solutions.

Bridger · 12-20-07, 09:02 AM

Good post!, i often have the same dilema, lets take a real U-boat submerged attack:- the captain would be at the attack periscope passing target info down from the conning tower to the weapon officer who would input the info to the computer, and the navigator would be plotting the attack on the chart table, how is this simulated in the game? manual targeting on and wo assistant on?

Sailor Steve · 12-20-07, 12:10 PM

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Originally Posted by Kraut

I'm getting bored of running box patterns around merchants and sinking them with one torpedo. It's time to get GWX and increase realism.

Under the "No Weapon Officer assistance" option the weapons officer doesn't calculate torpedo solutions? Then what is he there for? Shouldn't this increase the realism from 100% to 110%? It is my understanding that the captain determined the target information, and the weapons officer used it to calculate the solutions.

Yes that's true, but the real weapons officer wasn't perfect, and the guy in SH3 is. He always has the solution instantly, and he's never wrong.

jimmie · 12-21-07, 08:03 AM

Another thing is the AI Weapon Officer can obtain target's speed information with only 1 observation and within 1 second.

There're a couple of methods to find out the speed but it's not possible to obtain the value with only 1 observation or no time. (Well, maybe he has an egle eye and his method to determine speed by ship's wake and smoke (don't forget wind effect) is state of art, he can do it)

The you have to manuver take to obtain the speed as a captain alone will usually force
you totally different approch (more step and time consuming) to gather all the information you need to plan final attack.

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12-20-07, 08:43 AM	#1
Kraut Stowaway Posts: n/a Downloads: Uploads:	I'm getting bored of running box patterns around merchants and sinking them with one torpedo. It's time to get GWX and increase realism. Under the "No Weapon Officer assistance" option the weapons officer doesn't calculate torpedo solutions? Then what is he there for? Shouldn't this increase the realism from 100% to 110%? It is my understanding that the captain determined the target information, and the weapons officer used it to calculate the solutions. Last edited by Kraut; 12-20-07 at 08:53 AM.

12-20-07, 09:02 AM	#2
Bridger Mate Join Date: Dec 2007 Location: Nottingham, UK Posts: 59 Downloads: 67 Uploads: 0	Good post!, i often have the same dilema, lets take a real U-boat submerged attack:- the captain would be at the attack periscope passing target info down from the conning tower to the weapon officer who would input the info to the computer, and the navigator would be plotting the attack on the chart table, how is this simulated in the game? manual targeting on and wo assistant on?

12-21-07, 08:03 AM	#4
jimmie Lieutenant Join Date: Apr 2005 Location: Japan Posts: 259 Downloads: 0 Uploads: 0	Another thing is the AI Weapon Officer can obtain target's speed information with only 1 observation and within 1 second. There're a couple of methods to find out the speed but it's not possible to obtain the value with only 1 observation or no time. (Well, maybe he has an egle eye and his method to determine speed by ship's wake and smoke (don't forget wind effect) is state of art, he can do it) The you have to manuver take to obtain the speed as a captain alone will usually force you totally different approch (more step and time consuming) to gather all the information you need to plan final attack.