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Old 03-15-16, 08:12 AM   #20
palmic
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Default Two Historical Firing Methods (Hit What You Are Aiming At Without AOB or Speed)

I am glad to tell you these works even in SH5 TWOS, right now i hit Cimarron tanker from his starboard by the second moving bearing method (the less accurate one) with critical hit.

Its awesome because with this you can hunt ships even if you was spotted (and they returned to some course then), or if you have not ideal position and even if you are slightly behind and submerged (and much slower than target because of that).

Scenario was:

I was spotted by aircraft near of Cimarron escorted by some corvette at April 1940 in south-west approaches area. I was informed about target about 3 days ago by radio from luftwafe, it was coming from somewhere about Liverpool.
I met them from south, but then aircraft suddenly spawned just near of me flying directly on me (bull**** - sorry, but i was very slow in about 10m wind waves, i was invisible for aircraft without radar, it could spot me by some flying around, but not before i hear it and just 10 minutes after emerging).

So my target changed its course and it literally made circle clockwise.

Then i was catching him up from west, his course was about 185 degrees, just like my.
I changed my course to somewhat 125 to be for about 60 degrees angle on track.
Then i was just waiting and going full at 15.5 knots emerged.
His escort started firing on me from about 7km away, but it stayed before the tanker, to not letting him alone, so i just submerged and stayed in my way to shooting position.
After some 20 minutes, i was there - about 110 degrees AoB as you can see roughly by eye, about 6000m away as you can see at RAOBF (his mast height is 30m as you can see - 6km at RAOBF is 60 left - at 30 which is his mast height).

Then i've just done Auswanderungsverfahren (Change in Bearing of Target Over 1 Minute), added all to TDC, moved periscope cross to him and fired one magnetic 2 meters under the keel just in the middle of bow and one with impact pistol on the front.. (the second image of link above).

The Eels was travelling to 6km, so i set it to medium speed (max distance 7.5km) and waited for about 3m time.

I play at full realism without external nor effect cameras, so i was just able to hear the torpedos and tanker in hydrophone, everything seemed accurate..

It was about 20% of time left to impact and suddelny it happend - Torpedo trefa!
(so he was just about 5500m away...)

the first magnetic torpedo exploded somewhere bellow him and broke him in the middle. Then we was just about to see beautiful fireworks of full Cimarron tanker
Second one had ran around somewhere before him...
After short show, i was sneaking away before escort sprinting to my position....

This all was about 4hours operation in real life time, no special TC, i was maneuvering to his position, then closing up... so i enjoyed the hit a lot
UPDATE: And after lets say 10 minutes, listening sinking Cimarron, unplesant distraction came over me

Last edited by palmic; 03-19-16 at 03:10 PM.
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