Wish rec manual had length

[Platapus]

(3600)(length of ship)/observed time in seconds/1852m=target's speed

So this method does not require knowing the range?

[Jungman]

Originally Posted by Tonnage_Ace

I used to get speed in SHIII by putting the length of the ship and time it took for the ship to pass my vertical reticule to get the speed but the length of ships isn't listed in the rec manual. The speed function doesn't seem to do anything for me(it doesn't go above 0). The TDC in general is pretty lackluster in that I can't manually set the gyro, for say, firing at multiple targets in a convoy if I'm 90 degrees off their course. Hope some kind of TDC similiar to SHIII is included in a future patch...

Since th game engine is from SH3, I was able to do the same thing but only with Auto-TDC on I tried this out. I was able to lock the target, but then unlocked it for fun, when I moved the scope ahead to shoot a torp, it ran in that direction just like in SH3. That way I was able to shoot at different areas of the ship in front of me.

Of course, I think it may or may not work if you are shooting at target way off to the side. I never checked.