Why 3 instead of 5? Any particular practical reason?

+Yuri Janssen I'm glad to hear that, and thank you for the comment.

Thank you very much for the kind comment and advice. If you look at some of my later SHIV videos, I have indeed adopted that method. Another helpful commenter here taught it to me, and it has made my world a lot easier. For example, check out the longest shot I've ever made, and ignore that I'm shamelessly advertising myself. Silent Hunter IV, Dick O'Kane Method (8,600 yard attack), Part 1

***** That was impressive. Incredible.

Thank you very much.

I appreciate the kind comment. It's actually not as difficult as it may seem, and the distance/time measurements can be made a lot easier as well. For example, plot a point, wait 3 minutes, then plot the target's second point. Divide the yards between the two points by 100, and the result is the target's speed in knots.

+antuan734 I adopted this method a few years ago, and love it as well.

It is just converted from meters to yards. 2900m = 3171yd

Which video won't play? And, I'm not sure what more you want me to do. I kind of thought the videos were fairly step-by-step already.

If I recall correctly, it's with the w and s keys. The a and d keys control side to side movement as well.

You're welcome, and thank you for the comments on my videos. I appreciate you taking the time. Now, to answer your question, if I recall correctly, no, you cannot use this against military vessels (Unless you're so close, and firing so immediately that their reactions won't have any real effect, but at that point, why even bother with the ping?). Further more, I believe if you even use it -around- military vessels they'll start searching for you. Why the merchant vessel doesn't react, I can't say. I imagine it's just a gameplay conceit.

So, at first, when I set up the compass to make a circle, it didn't have a particular distance I was putting it out to. I just was getting the circle ready while I waited. After I got a sonar ping off of him, I adjusted the circle's size so its radius (With my boat at the middle) was the distance away from me. Then, I used my protractor to determine the angle away from me the ship was, and I was able to plot a more or less accurate location for where he was when I pinged him. It was shown in part 1 Manual Torpedo Targeting with Sonar (SH4) I hope that helped. If not, I'd be happy to try and help more.

If you also get the u-boats missions expansion, it patches the game from 1.4 to 1.5, I think. The tools themselves, however, should still work exactly the same. I have no mods on this. It might be that weird little green thing (I think that's a magnetic compass) above the other tools. It gives a 360 degree bearing around the tool's cursor. If that's not it, and you have the same version of the game as me, I'm afraid I have no idea what else there is.

No. You could of course look up the conversion rates, but the easy little numbers will not be the same.

John Ratcliffe It's what I look like to. Probably would blow your mind.

Actually I was quite fond of the character, but just wondering if it is a regional accent I may have not heard much of? :)

John Ratcliffe Well, I always assumed I had that generic sort of newscaster accent. I guess I don't, though. I'm from Colorado, but I can't tell if I have an accent. Sorry, man. I can't help any more than that.