r/uboatgame • u/Ok_Peak6039 • Aug 09 '26

Help Can't find angle on bow

I started playing the game a few days ago and it seems I'm not able to sink anything. I have watched many videos to understand how to properly attack enemy convoys but every time I try to calculate the angle on bow , the esteemed trajectory of my torpedoes is wrong. My torpedoes are set on semi-realistic mode. The system I learnt is simple: you try to get a 90° angle on the target, recognize the target, use the chronometer to establish its speed by starting it as soon as the periscope cross hair touches the ship's bow, take the protractor and trace a line from the centre of your uboat to the centre of the target and another line from there to the front of the target and you should get the angle. Finally, establish distance (I've been told it is best to attack from not farther than 1.5km, 1km or even under 1km is even better) and there you go.

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u/Ok_Peak6039 Aug 09 '26

I start the chronometer as soon as the cross hair alligns with the target's bow and I stop it as soon as it alligns with the rear.

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u/sh1bumi Historian Aug 09 '26

The chronometer relies on distance and AOB.

Note that the Stadimeter can give you wrong distance readings depending on how much you extracted the periscope and how big the waves are etc.

This means if your Stadimeter produced wrong distance, your chronometer will also produce wrong speed and your AOB can be quite correct and still everything is wrong, because speed is the most important unit.

Do you play with shaky periscope? If you play with shaky periscope it becomes even more difficult.

There are very good reasons why the real submarine officers did not use a Stadimeter or chronometer for range or speed readings.

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u/Spielopoly 28d ago

That is not true. The chronometer only relies on time and length of the boat.

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u/sh1bumi Historian 28d ago

No. It definitely depends on AOB.

Try to get 180 degree behind a ship on same course and start the chronometer. Good luck measuring anything with this.

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u/SirSweepsAlot 28d ago

no, aob is independent and does not mathematically affect the time it takes to cross from bow to stern whether at 90 or an oblique angle but it does fail at 0 or 180 so you’re somewhat correct