Coastal Artilley

[chuckfourth]

HI Don
Can I say great to be working for you on this one.
Couple of Questions before I get stuck in,
Why do you want me to check that all indirect fire class 10 Naval guns with accuracy of 60 have firecontrol and Rangefinder values of 0?

Before I look at Coastal guns could you give me some definitions? heres mine see how yours compare(as they relate to coastal guns).
Accuracy; the muzzle velocity of the gun.
Rangefinder; Value determined by the presence and use of some type of rangefinding device (0 for none?)
Firecontrol; Quality of the optics, for tanks etc but for coastal guns maybe use of bracketing by guns in the same battery, use of naval type target predictors and radars might be relevant?

Ive had a look around to give myself a bit of background on RA nd FC values before I dig into the OOB's, heres what Ive found so far thats relevant to the two guns Ive used as examples.

http://www.museumscenterhanstholm.dk...es_1945/_PRINT
"Battery Hanstholm 1, four 17 cm guns, emplaced in 1941. Manned by 1/118 MAA. Casemated, field of fire 335o to 235o. Range 28,000 yards. Two searchlights, radar set. Old German guns (1902) from ships. Eleven-meter range finder"
Now the 88 with a 1m Rangefinder gets a rangefinder value of 8 so do you think the 17cm guns 11m rangefinder value of 6 looks a little low? and Maybe the Firecontrol of 6 looks low also as the gun may have a radar in attendance as well.
Search the article with "range finder" Youll find that nearly all the largere calibre guns have a large naval type rangefinder in attendance.
For the iItalians I found this,
http://www.1911encyclopedia.org/Telemeter_Range-Finder
"For naval and harbour defence purposes the Barr and Stroud range-finder is very largely used throughout the world. In Italy a Barr and Stroud instrument, with the large base of 5 metres, was in 1908 under trial for coast artillery.
So in all likelyhood the 305mm gun had at least a 5m rangefinder, again the current rangefinder value of 6 may be a little low.

One last thing before I begin, could you please tell us why AP rounds have been removed from the coastal guns in-game?
Thanks in advance Chuck.