Illustrations For Beginning Ship Tactics

Here is my illustration of some basic ship to ship tactics.. for you captains who are just geting your feet wet. Consider visiting our teamspeak server to learn even more!

Here you see the positions of two ships "crossing the T" - however please remember the terms narrow, long, wide, broadside, forward arc are all relative to which ship you are, and which ship you are targeting...

In both cases below you will notice between the white lines there is a narrow zone (ship width) for your shots to land in even though you may be facing the targets broadside or the opposite is true. Shots CAN and WILL fall short, long, wide left or wide right...

Notice how difficult it is to hit moving ships with torps? Consider one classic example shown below. You are on patrol and an enemy ship slips closer to you out of the fog and you begin running parallel with a small headstart..



If the enemy ship tries to turn right or left, you would simply reduce the angle from 60* to 45, 30, or less depending how severe he tries to turn away or towards you, and fire another. Use a spread of torps for more chances to hit in either case if you can afford to. If he turns hard enough, he will either no longer have his full broadside of 5inch guns firing at you, or he will lose speed and fall behind. Either case will help you evade.

disclaimer: for this calculation we rounded off the speed of the torps and ships which may or may not be 100% accurate, and always subject to change in future patches, but this calculator came in handy from this link.. http://www.csgnetwork.com/csgtsd.html

Beginning captains looking for ship vs. sub tactics can never start too early.. since subs in ERT are highly popular, and ship captains are going to need to be the best they can be..

Here's a basic example of how depth charge runs will work on subs.

Wow a surface captain...I'm glad to see I'm not alone up there. Nice pics skipper. Just a small detail, your tactics for subs doesn't implement the fact that in Enigma torps reload really fast and you never get your first attack by behind. And most of the time if you don't hit your sub on the first run you know that your in for a long fight.

For surface the problem is your crew handeling the guns. They never get the first shot....well maybe sometimes on merchant ships.

Did we start somewhere else a surface tactic topic somewhere?

Well good hunting!

Donoby - thanks for the compliments, these are "short films" - longer films come with drama, music, voice acting, and bodacious bombshells awaiting your safe return.. lol

I cannot implement everything in an animated gif and keep it small enough for 56k modem users..

Just remember, youre going to be fighting an unpredictable enemy in multiplayer, and you dont KNOW anything about what kind of fight you're in for, until you've been had or survived. The most outspoken, brash, largest squad on the "other side" can still be defeated when you make it a point to train, train, and train some more with teamwork as the focus. When enemies die, its sometimes not your elite skill, but their stupid mistakes. And it goes both ways.

(the following story credited to and taken from uboat.net)

ASDIC, developed through the work of the Anti-submarine Detection Investigation Committee , from which its name is derived, was the primary underwater detection device used by Allied escorts throughout the war.

The first versions, crude to say the least, were created near the end of World War One and further developed in the following years by the Royal Navy.

How it works

The ASDIC, known to the Americans as Sonar, was basically a transmitted-receiver sending out a highly directional sound wave through the water. If the sound wave struck a submerged object it was reflected back and picked up by the receiver. The length of the time from transmission until the echo was received was used to measure the range, which was shown as a flickering light on the range scale. By mounting the transmitter head so that it could be directed almost like a searchlight, the bearing of the target could be read from the compass receiver.

read the rest of the article http://www.uboat.net/allies/technical/asdic.htm

CLICK THIS LINK TO HEAR ASDIC PING - DONT WEAR EARPHONES TOO TIGHT - MAY HURT YOUR EARS.. CHECK YOUR VOLUMN SETTINGS FIRST. http://home.t-online.de/home/sgaertner/9son1.wav

The following story credited and taken from http://webhome.idirect.com/~jproc/sari/sarintro.html

From Asdic, the more modern term SONAR was borne, which means SOund NAvigation and Ranging. SONAR is an American term dating from World War II and is now used universally to describe all underwater detection equipment. In the Royal Navy, the term was not formally introduced until 1964. (read the rest of the story here http://webhome.idirect.com/~jproc/sari/asd_gen.html

A problem with early Asdic's was their limited search ability as the oscillator projected its cone shaped beam at an angle of 10 degrees from the horizontal. Below the beam of acoustical energy was a considerable amount of dead space that would permit the target to elude Asdic. If the enemy escaped detection, depth charges had to be dropped by estimating the target's position. Wartime experience showed that this dead zone was even larger than envisioned because submarines could dive far deeper than was originally thought possible. As a result, a clever submarine commander could often manoeuvre out of harm's way. Once contact was lost, it was very difficult to re-establish.

A diagram of ten degrees from horizontal....

Has anyone told you that your like helping every single scrub in here. We needed you a while ago m8

Thanks Fragger, Ive been here for awhile and at subsim.com for a lot longer.. try to join our voice chat server listed below - you may like working with the TRITONS fleet.. 8)

Here's the next in a series of graphics showing hints and tips for new captains developing their naval strategies..

Oh. Just wondered what Tritons were ,, was it Hellenic mythology ?

Were they all female ?

Sirens were .

By the way , it was highly inauspicious to call a ship ' The Titanic' . As the Titans were enemies of the Gods , including Poseidon !

I would not have embarked on it ! I don't think an ancient Hellenic would have either !

Note * Greece is a more modern term for part of the lands of the Hellenes , and known as Hellas .

But y'all with be familiarised with all that , when ' Alexander ' hits the cinemas next year ! After Troy -( known as Ilion by the way _)

Prepare yourself for a huge interconnected story which the folowing quotes represent some of the key points of items that may amaze and interest many of you. (Each of the following quotes copied from various websites using google)



Triton (son of Poseidon, also known as King Neptune)

Triton (the moon of icy blue planet neptune, the moon which has mysterious evidence of ancient wars, devastation, catastrophe amongst the solar system- a fitting symbol for a fighting group)

The moon Triton, with its elongated and retrograde orbit around Neptune, also can only be logically explained as a result of a cosmic encounter or collision in the remote past. A team of Cal Tech scientists, including ...ancient star wars
Bode's Law predicts the orbits of the planets ..

The planets all seem to fit remarkably into this formula with relative precision. Could the deviations that exist be due to the influence of cosmic encounters and collisions which occurred earth in the history of the Solar System? In particular, could the vast and unexpected deviations of the orbits of Neptune, and especially Pluto, have been caused by such celestial encounter and massive conflict? And could the remains of the "asteroids" between the orbits of Jupiter and Mars be tell-tale evidence that formerly a planet did exist there, but was destroyed subsequently in an incredibly violent cosmic event?

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Or did it become that way due to some ancient cosmic event, which could have included a collision with another celestial body, such as a massive planet with an elongated orbit, such as that of a comet?

http://www.students.sbc.edu/albanis03/Bern...untainscopy.htm
Bernini?s last major commission for Pope Urban VIII, was the Triton Fountain.? It was created to be placed outside of the Piazza Barberini, the family palace of Pope Urban VIII.?? To pay tribute to the patron of the fountain, Bernini has included the papal insignia and the Barberini coat of arms on a cartouche that is placed on the dolphins tangled tails.? The Triton Fountain completed between 1642 and 1643

King Neptune was a Roman God and the king of the sea. Neptune could control all of the sea. Before King Neptune was god of the sea, he was king of the streams. King Neptune was the son of Saturn and Ops. King Neptune supposedly had a three pronged spear as his weapon. King Neptune got married to Amphitrite and then had a son named Triton. Triton was half man and half fish. Many ancient and modern seascapes feature King Neptune, Triton, and Amphitrite. King Neptune was a very powerful god. There are many tales told about King Neptune.

The legend of Neptune says that this Roman god was King of the Sea. Carrying his trident, a three-pronged spear, Neptune would drive in his dolphin-pulled chariot over the waters, calming the waters wherever he went.

A fantasy story on the web with mentions of Triton..

Altlantica

Planet Neptune Photo - Triton and other moons
Astronomers had identified the Neptunian moons Triton in 1846 and Nereid in 1949. Voyager 2 found six more. Triton circles Neptune in a retrograde orbit in under six days. Tidal forces on Triton are causing the moon to slowly spiral towards the planet. In 10 to 100 million years the moon will be so close that Neptunian gravity will tear it apart, forming a spectacular ring to accompany the planet's modest current rings. <> Voyager 2 completed its 12 year tour of the solar system with an investigation of Neptune and the planet's moons in August 1989. The spacecraft swept to within 4,850 kilometres of Neptune and then flew on to the moon Triton.

Anime Myth Website http://www.anime-myth.com/bssm/neptune.html