problem with historic battle -- ships do not appear on map screen

I'm goin' down · 04-12-09, 12:48 AM

I played a historic battle from 1942. It involved a fleet of IJN warships returning from a battle where they inflicted heavy losses on US naval forces. I never observed nodes on the map indicating the locations of the various IJN ships. All I observed were radar lines running from my boat in there direction. I tried to plot the locations of the IJN ships using the Werner Sobe method of tracking by sonar, but it proved impossible because I did not know which ship the sonar man was identifying. Thus, I could not calculate the speed of the fleet, and could not set up an attack with the TDC, or use the Cromwell or O'Kane methods either. Basically, I was firing blind, guessing at the speed of the fleet, AOB, and target distance. I wasted a lot of torpedoes.

Does anyone have a solution to this problem?

04-12-09, 02:52 AM

if you never got a position fix then it sounds like they were too far out of range for you and you were just out of possition to attack, it happens.

I'm goin' down · 04-12-09, 03:49 AM

they were within range -- from 5,000 yds to 500 feet. Webster, you should sell your deck guns to commercial ships sailing near Somalia. You would be rich.

04-12-09, 12:48 AM	#1
I'm goin' down Ocean Warrior Join Date: Sep 2008 Location: Notify command we have entered the Grass Sea Posts: 2,822 Downloads: 813 Uploads: 0	problem with historic battle -- ships do not appear on map screen I played a historic battle from 1942. It involved a fleet of IJN warships returning from a battle where they inflicted heavy losses on US naval forces. I never observed nodes on the map indicating the locations of the various IJN ships. All I observed were radar lines running from my boat in there direction. I tried to plot the locations of the IJN ships using the Werner Sobe method of tracking by sonar, but it proved impossible because I did not know which ship the sonar man was identifying. Thus, I could not calculate the speed of the fleet, and could not set up an attack with the TDC, or use the Cromwell or O'Kane methods either. Basically, I was firing blind, guessing at the speed of the fleet, AOB, and target distance. I wasted a lot of torpedoes. Does anyone have a solution to this problem?

04-12-09, 03:49 AM	#3
I'm goin' down Ocean Warrior Join Date: Sep 2008 Location: Notify command we have entered the Grass Sea Posts: 2,822 Downloads: 813 Uploads: 0	range was not the problem they were within range -- from 5,000 yds to 500 feet. Webster, you should sell your deck guns to commercial ships sailing near Somalia. You would be rich.

04-12-09, 02:52 AM	#2
Webster Stowaway Posts: n/a Downloads: Uploads:	if you never got a position fix then it sounds like they were too far out of range for you and you were just out of possition to attack, it happens.