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!

90 degress ummmm port okaaay - why he neeed to stutter than asking "okay?" who he ask? and what if its not okay?

Very helpful for all SH3 players who want to ramp up the reality level close to or exactly at 100%. Thanx for the detailed explanation!

When is the release date for this game?

Hmm on my attack disc I cannot move the "ship" disc any idea why?

But dont' you have a problem with the ships angle too? If it's not paralell the reading will be wrong.

confusing as hell :p didn't understand jack shit. Maybe do examples with top down view of your uboat and the ship you want to attack and then show how you turn the disc?

In a way my favourite scene was the most hurt wrenching one. When all the chaos happens upon return to port, crew dying and all, the captain is locked onto the boat. He mortally injured but it’s like he only truly lets himself give up when he sees that thing fall beneath the water for the final time, after all they’ve been through together and the fact it was an extension of himself. When the boat died he died. The captain went down with his ship if you will. We the viewers see this through the pov of the pov character, and he even seems taken aback watching the captain end in this way. Such a powerful scene.

There has never been a flight sim cockpit setup even close to the sheer nerdissimo of this control room.

Great news. You mentioned wwi subsims. Apart from shells of fury, i can't find any. Can you recomend another ?

That is pretty slick. I have played the vanilla SH3 for a lot of years and I can honestly say I am one that does not to this day know how to use any equipment properly. I just opened tubes and let'r rip tater chip! I have recently decided after almost 20 years that I wanted to get more into it and actually learn. I am now using GWX the last couple days and WOW! It is a whole new world. THis here piece of equipment is pretty slick. I like the ease of use. Quick, easy explanation. Thanks! On a side note, I am struggling horribly bad to identify ships. I see so many folks on YT open one of the many many books available and know exactly where to go and what they are looking for. DO you happen to know where a guy can go to find info on identification strategies for GWX and all them books it has? Thanks for your time and hope all is well your way. Take care!

0:20 ...🍺🍺🍺🍺🍺👍

It's been a title I have had my eye on for a while. It looks pretty great.

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.

I once had a situation where a destroyer stopped its engines to listen. Now i couldn't use the hydrophone to identify him and know he's there because he was at 180° behind, which SH3 considers an area where you cannot hear anything. So there i was coming up silent, i come to 12 meters pop up my observation scope and start looking around slowly (zoomed at 6x). That's when my view was blocked by a splash and im starting to rotate my scope like crazy until i saw him dirrectly behind me. Thankfully i was 90° port of him and a bit far so he couldn't start rolling ash cans from his K-guns and racks immedietaly

What is your discord?

Thnx dude you gained a new sub.

Why does your SH3 look different to mine?

You did it, Sir. Now I will try to learn to shoot manually. Never tried before. Seriously, thanks for the clarification. Oh, by the way, imaginarily mathematics if applied with the proper discipline, its real to me. 😉

Sorry, out of the loop. Where would you use a factor of 1.94 in SH? edit: oh it's m/s to kn.

It is good to see you again! 1.94 is not working good in SH3 (I always miss from long distance) but it works in Wolfpack for me even from long distance like 3-4.5 km. I don't know why. So when I play SH3 I use your calculation methods.

So my boats orientation relative to the target doesn't matter. I put it in my crosshair, calculate distance, aob and speed. Then I put it into the TDC and lock it. Assuming nothing changes, if I keep the crosshair on the target as the target moves ,the TDC then at all times feed the gyro angle to the torpedo and I have but to take the shot?

Big mistake!!!! It should be multiplied by 1.944, not 1.852. Why?. Very easy, we multiply by 3.6 to transform m/sec into Km/sec, and we divide by 1.852, to convert it to knots, which are miles / hour. 3.6 / 1,852 = 1.9438

I'm very late to the party and I'm very much a odd ball here. I first fell in love with submarines when I was exposed to DSV Deep submersion's vehicle that was a TV series in the 90s. I don't have a favourite new boat so I'm actually not familiar with them. I play you most and I think I'll play other submarine games. Hard core mods ...

Thanks for posting, even 4 years old, this is great. I'm a newbie Uboat player and I've set it to hard core mods.

"Port stern" or "starboard stern" would be PORT QUARTER OR STARBOARD QUARTER

Port and Starboard....omg....Starboard is the side that used have the STEERING BOARD (before rudders)----and because of the Steering board being on the right, when you docked in port YOU DOCKED THE OPPOSITE SIDE, THE LEFT, (THE SIDE WITHOUT THE STEERING BOARD) TO THE DOCK or PORT

My favorite scene is the test dive in the beginning

Hi bstanko first of all , your entire videos not just this one , are extremely helpful , and they are the reason I was able to learn and implement manual targeting in my careers. I have a few questions that if you could answer would be really helpful. I've been scouring the internet for information on this method but I was unable to come up with anything other than a vague " they used the scope granicule method ". Do you have access to any piece of writing that elaborates on this ranging method? I also have a question regarding the " magic " 0.22 number. Is it just a number you came up with while testing to reach the correct ( already known ) result , or is it a specific number that is discussed somewhere ? If it is discussed I would once again like to have access to it to read it myself. Thank you so much for your videos!

The X mark is for calculating torpedo lead angle.

Hey i would love to join your discord.

Hey man, you play Wolfpack?

Hi. If you seak for extreme realism, then you have to leave the pen in reverse... because you entered it in forward. Then, outside, you have to make a U-turn maneuver...

holy soul

Which mods/ submods?

Volume is too low!

How do you have a ship at 30 degrees with an AOB of 45 degrees? If 90 is straight in front and 0 is at 090 it would have to bare at 45 degrees if the AOB is at 45.

errrrh funny story...i fell asleep watching Das boot with my gaming headset on and i'd rolled over on the cable that had volume control buttons on it, I'd manage to crank the volume up so loud it sounded like i was actually on board the U-boat.....i was still asleep at that point until till the scene where they starting getting depth charged.......I got the quickest and most frightening awakening of my life, cos i awoke to hear this "ALAAAAARM!!!!!!" then light bulbs blowing up and pipes bursting and the crew shouting in a madden panic water rushing in and explosions popping off. oooooh boy i'd never jumped out of bed so fast but my heart was racing so hard i could feel my heartbeat in my head, once i realised what i'd done and stopped panting like a husky dog in a heat wave and sweating, i'd sat back down and once i'd finally calmed down i started laughing at myself but at the same time was feeling pretty damn sympathetic for submariners of this Era.....ooooh boy i don't want experience that again in hurry let alone doing it for real.

I prefer the Dick O'Kane targeting method. Much easier; distance to target doesn't matter. Need only target speed and preset AOB to 15 or 345 degrees. I've seen videos sinking a target at over 3000 yards and never raise the scope.

Have to admire dedication to the simulation. Years ago, I remember reading about someone implementing voice commands for SH3, when they were doing a 1:1 time mission and posted updates of their journey in the Subsim forums. Sounded awesome. All you need is a string of cured meats hanging above the monitor and you're golden. heh

Am I missing something, you say 22.7/5 is 22.75. But 22.7/5 is 4.54? How are you getting 22.75?

Been looking all over the internet for this formula, thanks

glad your still alive i left subsim after over 20 years but will catch up with you here

Good one. If your relative bearing to the target isn't changing you may put it in the TDC, as well as your own speed as the target's speed.

I'm playing the onealex GWX and it seems the scope multiplier @x6 is 0.2370 which means every tan(alpha) division on vertical scale of x6 scope is 0.0572953020554 degrees 🤔 doesn't seem right cus it should be something like 0.06 degrees per small division but the distances can be measured using the 0.2370 constant with a fairly good accuracy and upto 5 to 6km using range in meters = (Mast/(tan(alpha))*0.2370 nonetheless

Hey! You said that you regret getting medically discharged from the Navy at Groton because of a medical condition… man, you can’t control that! I know the what ifs and such, but you were there at least. You tried. I know I can’t even join the navy bc of my medical conditions. At least you went! You make the most out of what you have. All love

There is something about the feeling when you finally do the calculations manually and with no help from the WO in this game that is unlike anything else. It’s like making music for me. Thank you for this video!

My favourite scene in das boot was the failed attack on the destroyer.