Longest shot(successful)

[kranz]

when I saw OLC I said-nope, I'm too dumb for it so I came back to normal stadimeter. I see that I'm not a total noob at least-my average is 500-800m, longest-about 2k.

[Letum]

Originally Posted by kranz

when I saw OLC I said-nope, I'm too dumb for it so I came back to normal stadimeter. I see that I'm not a total noob at least-my average is 500-800m, longest-about 2k.

Have you seen OLC's tutorial video?
It might change your mind.

I put 4 eels into an ocean liner from 4700 m. A large target and fast torpedoes help. I like attacking the T3 tanker from some way out.

[Rommer69]

The farther one a bit more than 4 km, usually i prefer to shoot at nearer distances (less than 1500 m), but due to bad luck with the weather i´m used to shoot without seeing the target, just with the data from the hydrophones, nav map and manual input in the TDC.
i´ve reached the point that the sight of a ship through the persicope get me so nervous that makes me miss the shot:rotfl: :rotfl:

[kranz]

yeah-I did see it but I could even zoom-my mouse scroll didn't work...

I can't see anything well enough to positively I.D. it over about 4-5000m generally, except for some of the larger ships,and even if i can i can't keep a lock on it to determine it's speed with much accuracy using the notepad stopwatch, which isn't too accurate anyway.
To plot it's course and get it's speed from that i still have to be able to determine the range, which i can't do unless i've I.D.'d it, and managed to estimate the range with some degree of confidence (90% with external view but no stabilization, and i don't use pause cos they didn't in the war).

Furthest i've hit anything (on purpose ) is about 3000m, and that was the Auxillary Cruiser in Happy Times single mission.

I should add though that i've re-started a new career on 90%, am on the first day of the war, and am still practising my manual targeting on single missions before i start racking up renown ( or getting sunk ) cos if theres one thing i hate in a VIIB it's wasting precious torpedoes by missing the target.
Therefore i'm practising until i'm either a crack shot, or i get fed up with single missions .

As for night time attacks, since i can't see diddly squat, which precludes I.D.ing it, plotting a target course etc, i'm very reluctant to fire at anything at night, except at close range (less than 1000m).

[DanFraser]

I like to shoot from the hip at 400-600m single or convoys, lol. So much that that is the only way I shoot. I did perplexingly miss once, but got a ship on the far side of the convoy...

[Drakken]

Using manual targeting without the notepad, I just made my record yesterday when I sank a Russian troop transport ship in plain middle of a heavily escorted convoy with two eels under her keel from a 3700m distance.

Perfect calculation via the navigation map: speed 6,5 knots, AoB 142deg to starboard, distance 3700m, gyro angle 001. I computed it all manually, aimed the bow and the chinmey area in the middle, fired my eels, and immediately turned around at 80 meters deep in silent running to escape. Five minutes of wait in anguish while blinding following my torpedoes on the Attack Solution map, the target out of sight, and then I heard "Boom!-boom!". I knew that it were two hits. 8000 tons down the Black Sea!

We should do Subsim Olympics, with one of the discipline being long range manual targeting.

[Hartmann]

Yes !

In long shots, little errors in the fire solution are amplified by distance so it´s possible miss the target.

one time i did a perfect very long range sink, i fired a torpedo to a convoy with rain and heavy fog, but the torpedo don´t hit the target and continues until it found a scort in the other side, but i only heard the torpedo explosion.