Alright you Wiz Manual Targeting Kids!

[Monica Lewinsky]

Originally Posted by jfarrow

I find that more than 90% of the time I'm using the Dick O'Kane attack method. Was a natural transition for me since I always tried to get a 90 degree angle even on auto.

I, too, have been a Dick O' Kane method fan @90 in auto, FIRE!

Good News !!!!!!

I got this manual targeting down straight after 3-4 tries. I used the Training School to work out the basics.

MY FIRST REAL TRY:
Then I used my last saved game as a testing ground. Made an approach to an escorted convoy. Lined things up and FIRED two fish! Lowered the scope.

Within 20 seconds, BOOM - Torpedeo Impact, another 5 seconds - BOOM! Had external camera and event camera OFF. Raised the scope - was saying to self - "what was that? Them fish should have take 90 seconds to get to the target".

Looked in the scope, WTF? I was not aiming at that - an escort - Sinking fast - she raised herself perfectly up & down going down stern first real fast. My intended target, a freighter got off Scott Free. Fired two more at the freighter. Same thing Boom!, Boom, - Target destoyed! WTF!!! Sunk yet another escort. Man something is wrong. I am hitting stuff ... but not at the target I intended.

So back to the drawing board. Watched one more time this:
http://www.subsim.com/radioroom/show...83&postcount=8

Then it dawns on me. I have been setting the AOB WRONG!!!! Not the number [or degrees] ... the idiot here [me] was setting the Port vs Starboard the opposite of what it should be!!! What a dip stick! I got it right now.

If you are shy, about asking questions on how to determine AOB, this flick:
http://files.filefront.com/SH4+Fleet.../fileinfo.html

took the hardest thing to understand and made it SO SIMPLE!!!

Today ALONE, I have sunk one 20-ton cruiser and 3 freighters on my first maunual targeting only patrol. Right now I am cheating - SORRY. Got the event camera and external cameras on so I can see what mistakes I am making.

Bottom line:
Auto Targetting is for girls.

Finally understanding this has put a new and exciting dimension to this game.

I just downloaded the GWX 2.1 update, gonna switch to manual targeting in that game too!