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Originally Posted by beartooth91
Experienced player here, but my first time using the Dick O'Kane targeting method. I fired three torpedo's and missed!
Target was a freighter, course 280, speed 8.5 knots. My course was 10....stern tubes facing. I chose a lead angle of 15....AOB was set to starboard 75. I pulled the stadimeter triangle all the way down. Firing bearing was 165. Anyway I shot at 900 yards...all three...bow/middle/stern and missed. It was night with rough seas and I didn't see whether I missed ahead or astern.
I figure one of two issues....firing bearing should've been 175 not 165 (?) or AOB should be set to 180 - lead angle when shooting stern tubes (?). I've never seen that in any instruction, so, maybe I'm overanalyzing.
What did I do wrong?
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If you were on course 010, then 180 degrees from that would put your torps on 190. Target was traveling 280 which with your course, would have put it on a 90-degree tack... so if you had the sound guy, calling out info on the target... am thinking you would have wanted to pop off your 1st fish, at... the call of target at bearing 168, the next at bearing 170 & the 3rd, at bearing 173 call from the sound guy. That, I believe I have them right, would be the proper torp fire points...
Now, as it goes, am not sure what the pin point fire call is, for the gyro settings... or imputing the targets speed... since I am more used to auto targeting with SH4... SH3, it was fairly easy to slips into a 1/2 & 1/2 pin point procedure for not using auto targeting but still having the weap's (sorry, for the uninitiated, that'd be weapon's officer or 2WO) to identify & set up the torp attack on the TDC... leaving Me free to pull the trigger for them to fire them... leaving Me free to keep situational awareness, especially if there were escorts with the convoy/s. Same procedure if the targets were warships, in a task force.
Any rate... I believe I have the fire points figured right... & that'd be with the speed on the fish, set on low... btw... on high speed, I'd figure... 170, 173 & 176 call on target from the sound man...
Am looking forward to someone more, used to doing man targeting, to confirm or refute My... estimation computations...
M. M.