Does this guy know how to party or what?!

Thank you for your knowledge. I have pinned this comment to be at the top for our viewers

justlaugh87 there's nothing wrong with sharing knowledge and having a discussion. After all there were indeed mistakes in this tutorial and he pointed them out. The uploader is way cooler than you to pin this msg to let the viewers know what could have been done better.

Am I the only one to see there were 4 minutes elapsed and not 5? Anyway, it would be nice to see the actual procedure written or explained clearly somewhere, Lord of Thunder's comments are a bit murky, and after that I'm not sure what I can trust in the video either. Some parts are obvious, but how the TDC should be handled is definitely not entirely clear.

Lord of Thunder pretty much has no idea what he's talking about... The gyro angle is he angle the torpedo needs to turn in order to hit the ship. The gyro DOES NOT have to be at 0!!!!! If the gyro is lets say 10 degrees the gyro in the torpedo will cause the torpedo to turn the 10 degrees to intercept the ship. When the gyro angle is at ZERO that just means the torpedo doesn't have to turn and will just run straight and go directly forward, not performing a turn. Torpedoes turn just fine, but due to the position of the ship and geometry being what it is... firing at a 90 degree angle on the ship with the torpedo heading directly perpendicular to the target ship means mistakes in the solution are minimized at that position. Also impacting at 90 degrees reduces the chance of a deflection. I could make a video explaining that if you want. If your submarine is not in a perpendicular angle to the ship then you are not going to want to shoot when the gyro angle is at 0, but instead at the angle in which the torpedo will arrive at a 90 degree angle to the ship. You also don't need to lock your scope onto the ship when firing. It is typically a good idea if your firing a single torpedo though. If your torpedo solution is "Correct" then the torpedo should strike the ship where the vertical line, of the crosshairs, is on the ship. Since it's locked on the center it should hit the center. You can unlock and do a manual spread of the torpedoes... aiming one at the center and maybe one more towards the front and one more towards the rear of the ship. It depends on how much you trust your solution and if you want to do a spread or not. You can do spreads automatically in the torpedo computer as well instead of doing a manual spread. Spreads are used because computing a solution is complicated and prone to human error. Getting it exactly right is difficult and gets better with experience. It's not risky to change the speed in the TDC while locked on with your periscope as stated above. The TDC is designed to take input and all you're doing it changing inputs to get a proper firing solution which is what the TDC is calculating. You should put your torpedoes on the fastest speed that has the range to get to your target. If the target is close you want them going FAST as that reduces errors in your solution and can turn a miss into a hit. Steam torpedoes allow for various speeds, but they produce bubble trails that are a give away to the ship that a torpedo is coming. If they see the trial they will perform evasive maneuvers to avoid the torpedo if possible. So typically in daylight, like in the video, you fire electric torpedoes as not to give away your shot especially distant shots. If it's a close shot and they won't have time to react a steam torpedo in the daylight can be fine. Electric torpedoes are slower and therefore more sensitive to errors in your solution though... they're harder to hit with because they're slower. So you have to decide what you're going to do based on the scenario. I, for that reason usually have steam torpedoes in tubes 1 and 3 and electric torpedoes in tubes 2 and 4. Here is a video I made explaining why to choose fast torpedoes. kzfaq.info/get/bejne/p95za9OG16yRhXk.html

+stabiz85 Correct! Thanks for mentioning this, I thought it was obvious but I should have mentioned it too

Fuzti13 glad to see it’s still useful!

+Shampoo Wow thanks!

How did you do this? I know this is old but I have the steam version, dl wos, and when I load game nothing has changed

No problem man. unfortunately I won't be doing any more videos as I don't have the time. I just got accepted to the Hawaii EMT program so I'm going to be pretty busy

Hawaiian_Hero Well that's a fair reason not to be able to. Congrats on your success.

+We'llAlwaysHave VALIS thanks

People who need this level of explanation shouldn't be playing a sub sim. They've got something wrong in the wiring in their heads, and should be on land at all times where they're safe in times of war. :P

wow nice to see somebody who is receptive to new players...Everyone needs to start some where, Otto Kretschmer wasn't born with knowing what AOB is. This is a very niche type of game/sim and it could use new players. As for anyone that reads that comment, ignore people like this and don't give up It can be very challenging at times and you'll miss allot just keep watching videos like this and real the manuals and eventually it will click like it did for me.

this way of calculating AOB was much easier for me than what was shown on the video. thanks for the tip.

And how do you move map when a tool is active?

I'm not sure :( glad to see that people still refer to this video tho! lol

oh i think you can use the arrow keys to move the camera

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+Munky332 kzfaq.info/get/bejne/psumhrl62NPcmKc.html

@@hawaiian_hero3293 That link no longer works. Could it be EQuaTool - Elite Quality Map Tools for SH5 by AvM? www.subsim.com/radioroom/showthread.php?t=175050

Gran Torino this is why you pass all the data to tdc. it will manage the angle of attack of the torp, so that it will intercept the target on the given time

Precisely. This guy doesn't know what the fuck he's doing. He's trying to calculate a firing solution 'manually' whilst using keyboard shortcuts and using the TDC to calculate the firing solution in the end anyway. If you want to learn how to calculate a real firing solution there's some great WWII tutorials out there used by the Royal Navy that give you a break down of the math. It's not a useful skill in 2017, but it's damn fun!

This is basically how it is done, some people do it differently, if I am not mistaken there is one way where you just need aob and speed then use the attack disc and enter it to the TDC. The "Torpedorichtungsweiseranlage" as its know was not a "computer" as such more a calculator....It doesn't know the speed, AOB and range of the enemy ship and torpedo speed, you have to tell it that, but before you do that you have to find out what these variables are.....and how do you find theses variables...one way is with trigonometry like this video. www.tvre.org/en/acquiring-torpedo-firing-data Please enlighten us how your suppose to use the TDC without this info then? As for the original comment, simple you tell the TDC what speed the torpedo is going to be traveling at,its pre set here and there are only 2 setting for speed you just select which one.

@Jogn Galt PS: Im sure your tutorial is much better ;)

Schmitty there is a button with the letter "M" or "I" setting for torpedoes.. and M stands for manual but I stands for what, do you know... thank you

@jason mule just press the crew member that is the radio man and click the phonograph.

+Haz Mat Sorry I dont understand the question. I'm using the mod called Wolves of Steel. SH5 is the base game.

+Haz Mat It is the Wolves of Steel mod which requires both the JSGME mod program, the GenericPatcher program, and the full mod (you should see Wolves of Steel 1.05 1 -> 5

This is a highly modded version of the game. The vanilla game is a lot simpler.