Gyroangle Insight

[Nukesub]

Ahoy Kaleuns!

I am currently practicing quite a bit with H.sie's version of the ACM reloaded GUI. (it has a range and AoB wheel incorporated into the periscope)

Most of my practice is with the Torpedo and Convey Attack tutorials.

One thing I notice is that, no matter how well I THINK i take the range, speed, and AoB; if I shoot at a gyroangle far from 000 my shots almost always miss.

Does anyone know why this is? I suppose I should just always angle my boat so that I can shoot from a 000 gyroangle.

Appreciate input in advance!

[u crank]

The larger the gyro angle, the more the torpedo has to turn after leaving the tube before it begins it's straight run to target. This increases the chances of a miss because it adds a greater variable to the solution. Therefore the smaller the angle, the better chance for success.

[Aktungbby]

http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Torpedo_Data_Computer

[BigWalleye]

If you are going to quote Von Clausewitz, you should at least quote him in full:

"Everything in war is simple, but the simplest thing is difficult."

When quoted in its entirety, it makes sense.

[Jimbuna]

Originally Posted by u crank

The larger the gyro angle, the more the torpedo has to turn after leaving the tube before it begins it's straight run to target. This increases the chances of a miss because it adds a greater variable to the solution. Therefore the smaller the angle, the better chance for success.

Originally Posted by BigWalleye

If you are going to quote Von Clausewitz, you should at least quote him in full:

"Everything in war is simple, but the simplest thing is difficult."

When quoted in its entirety, it makes sense.

Agreed.

[Nukesub]

Does anyone have a rule of thumb for firing within certain Gyro angles?

Just from the torpedo and convoy attack tutorials I think a safe bet is +/- 5 degrees from 000. Anything in that tolerance

Anyone a fan of huge hook shots?

[Aktungbby]

Originally Posted by BigWalleye

If you are going to quote Von Clausewitz, you should at least quote him in full:

"Everything in war is simple, but the simplest thing is difficult."

When quoted in its entirety, it makes sense.

True enough! The quote is so well known I took some liberties. Partly as I believe Von C. was putting it Dryly himself... as with Napoleon Bonaparte, Clausewitz was a decided land animal and only finished Book One-my well thumbed-dogeared Howard/Paret translation on my shelf-before dying of cholera, 1831.; His wife cobbled together the rest of his notes-seven more books- and released it as ON WAR-1832 and lived off the proceeds?. As with Napoleon, who lost strategically to Lord Nelson at Aboukir and Trafalgar, ending any hope of domination world-wide in 1805, ON WAR never grasps the necessity of control of the seas... as per Mahan's Influence of Sea Power on History -1890. "Clausewitz's thinking was based on his experience as a Prussian war planner/observer concerned with how to use popular forces in an insurrectionary struggle against the much-superior French forces which occupied Prussia after 1806—how, in short, to wage a "Spanish War in Germany." That his treatise, while an important study, can have been tied/cobbled to the plans of a (Prussian) nation state (von Moltke) for two world wars involving a losing offset-warfare U-boat campaign against greatly superior forces on the strategic seas, while conducting a two front tactical land war, is the great travesty and complete waste of the 20th century. The von Schlieffen Plan: of the 'last man on the right's sleeve 'sweeping the channel coast' in WWI failed to properly consider the control of all that water to the right (ADM Jellicoe-1916)...to be articulated twentyfive years later more simply: Operation SEALION- "And Hitler was unsure of the operation from the beginning. He confided in Admiral Raeder, "On land I am a hero. At sea I am a coward."" As with Bonaparte, this outlook cost Germany the war for the second time... If "warfare is a continuation of politics by other means"-(von C's other quote of note) it helps to have the means (a lot more cents?) and not make the same mistakes twice!! imho