5 years old but I found this to be exactly what I needed. Thanks!

Thanks for the thoughtful explanation! I understand it far better now, what a clever little tool! I bet you didn’t think 7 years later people would still be using this video as a reference for SH3!

I started playing SH3 last week and I really appreciate the insight

Just found your site and again thank you. For targeting, I use the quasi- Rich O'Kane / RockinRobbin's method were you only need to know the target course and speed to set up an intersection with lead degree. AoB and range are not important so it saves a lot of possible error. Technically, its the law of congruent triangles. But, that's me (and Richard O'Kane). Good Luck and Good Hunting!

Man I really do understand the historic value of leaving the written language in the Uboat on the panels and such but ... I don't read or speak German/Deutsch (my apologies in advance for not being sure which one it is). I really wish I could get my panels to have English tags on them like yours do. I use the GWX Onealex mod and my panels are really unreadable to me. I pretty much know what is what but I really wish I could read them. I am new to that mod so hopefully someone comes along soon and says hey man, you can actually change that. it would make my dang day! Awesome video as well. Thanks for taking the time for putting it out here. Hope all is well your way. Take care.

Thanks for the tutorial, very helpful.

I just started 2 days ago and this helped me a lot.

I have been looking for this explanation for days. It took the first half day just to figure out that the damn dial was called :P

I was just informed by Papasmurf, that the extra mark on the right side of the RAOBF wheel is for minimum magnification. It should be noted that I found it more accurate for Ahnanerbe version.

hey bstanko appreciate these videos this is actually helpful to me on sh5 wolves of steel, I was curious however im running gwx on sh3 and you have tdc dials at your attack periscope and I really like that how did you set that up?

Great video. Just a question. Do you have to be in X12 view do use RAOBF? At close range, the target fills the entire scope in X12 view making it extremely hard to figure out how many horizontal tick marks. Also, wouldn't it be a better idea to estimate speed first then range and AOB? speed usually stays constant, but AOB and range changes pretty fast.

A video on how to engage a zigzagging target would be nice.

BY far the best tutorial on this wonderful tool. Very many thanks for the straight-to-the-point, short tutorial. PS: Any reason for Otto Ites being your profile pic? (Just like to know why, my personal favourites were Topp, Suhren, Schnee)

Hi, what GUI and/or super mod has this scope/tdc set up? I currently have Greywolves 3.0 Gold and Conus widescreen and don't really care for it. I like this more 'grungy' look and all tools at hand.

I wonder how you managed to get that 4:3 ratio to extend across the height of your screen, or is that a recording thing? I've tried desperately to get it just so, with and without DxWND, but to no avail. The only way to keep the game from stretching across the entire widescreen is to turn off fullscreen mode, but then the game window stays at 1024x768. I just can't get it as big as my vertical resolution. I don't want to use those widescreen mods, they don't work on 16:10 either, I want the original 4:3 ratio, that's perfectly fine for me, that's how I've been playing Dangerous Waters for ages, but Dangerous Waters allows me to have 1,600x1,200 which is just high enough for my vertical resolution. I used MaGui F, it's supposed to be 4:3, but of course it's also just stretched across the entire screen, which makes it just as completely useless. I had to give up on this game. Sad, but there was no other way. SH5 offers normal screen resolutions and formats. No one ever seemed to bother updating SHIII in this regard, you can't even set a damn window resolution. Such a bummer. Well, I've come to terms with it and consequently thrown SH3 in the bin. There is no way to manually target and navigate properly with egg shaped gauges. But then I stumbled across... this... your video. It looks like I wanted to get it to work too. 🤔

i never understood manual targeting, for example: if you lock on the target it will track it and update the aob as you follow it, so then why you have to manually set the aob in the tdc if the tdc already tracks and knows the aob?

Don't have the wheel, but saw another dude give a solution using the nav map and a protractor. I use grey wolves expansion.

The X mark is for calculating torpedo lead angle.

Thanks for the tutorial. But I have some trouble understanding the AOB. What if the ship is at bigger AOB than 90? For example a ship at AOB 135. SO in the ring I will see 45 angle? (45+90=135) Am I right?

Thx

Hello friend, it is me again :D I have a question If I may - if the ship is going away from you - how do you add or subtract the degrees and to what value 90/180 or something else for port/starboard, also if you have not ideal ticks for range and for AOB what do you use - before or aft the end of the ship (regardless if it is bow/stern). I give you example - the Academy and the ship that starts around 270 degrees (opposite of the tanker direction). If I go manual on Speed and on eye on AOB I can hit (all of the ships) - almost always (unless he goes left and right etc.). With this tool - I basically never hit - it always misses and it miss for to-slow (the torpedo lags behind the ship - and this is in condition that I even release it at the front part). Yes I open the doors before I go for the firing solution and yes - I do it at full stop from the initial position - that means that the torpedo have to make a left turn, to go to the target. And even if you put a salvo at the target - for example 1 and 4 with 1 degree spread - both go behind the ship. It looks that closer you get - the bigger the error - the stationary ship that is a bow from you - it is actually very close - what readings the wheel gives to you? Even as distance?

Sir, the disk which you are using appears very similar to OLCs disk made for GWX @ 1024x768? Would you know a mod for or containing just that periscope disk for 1080p? Thank you!

Hello. Can you tell me, please, how to add Raobf and Atack disk in my SH3? I use GWX Gold edition 3.0, but there is no options. Maybe I need to install some mods? If yes, what mods? And my periscope screen looks different with yours. How to do the same? Thank you a lot for you videos and helping!

Wait, so if this GUI lets you zoom in to 12x, does this mean for 6x zoom all the tick mark measurements have to be halved?

I am playing on WAC5.2 and it keeps giving me non-sensical answers, like less than half of the real range value...

What's the name of the documentation ? Do you have a link ?

hi，why I could not use the RAOBF in the Magui F mod,,,need any fix?

Where can I download RAOBF separately?

Good day Bstanko6 Can I ask what is the mod that you have in this clip? thank you André