Tma

[Christophertar]

TMAing seems to be a very time consuming task, and when you have multiple objects in the water around you, becomes rather confusing and difficult. My question then is, is it better to let the auto crew do the dirty work at the TMA station? I seem to get it more accurate, but I have to keep pausing to do so, and as I say, it gets very confused in the heat of combat! One last question, how often should you be updating the TMA tracks?

[Molon Labe]

TMAing seems to be a very time consuming task, and when you have multiple objects in the water around you, becomes rather confusing and difficult. My question then is, is it better to let the auto crew do the dirty work at the TMA station? I seem to get it more accurate, but I have to keep pausing to do so, and as I say, it gets very confused in the heat of combat! One last question, how often should you be updating the TMA tracks?

There's no shame in letting the aTMA take care of things when there are a lot of contacts around, especially if you're pressed for time. A common technique is to let aTMA take care of most contacts, while manually tracking contacts of interest (e.g., possible targets).

How often you update a track depends on how interested you are in the contact and how close it is. For most contacts, there is very little utility in updating the track every two minutes, since they aren't very close, they aren't going to shoot you, and they're moving in a straight line anyway. On the other hand, if you're parked barely 10nm off an enemy warship and trying to hold that position, you'll want to know if he turns into you right away so you can stay out of his active sonar. Similarly, you'll want to frequently update tracks on targets trying to evade your torpedoes so you can resteer quickly; and, you'll want to frequently update tracks on incoming torpedoes so you will know when they have been resteered.

There's no shame in letting the aTMA take care of things when there are a lot of contacts around, especially if you're pressed for time. A common technique is to let aTMA take care of most contacts, while manually tracking contacts of interest (e.g., possible targets).

How often you update a track depends on how interested you are in the contact and how close it is. For most contacts, there is very little utility in updating the track every two minutes, since they aren't very close, they aren't going to shoot you, and they're moving in a straight line anyway. On the other hand, if you're parked barely 10nm off an enemy warship and trying to hold that position, you'll want to know if he turns into you right away so you can stay out of his active sonar. Similarly, you'll want to frequently update tracks on targets trying to evade your torpedoes so you can resteer quickly; and, you'll want to frequently update tracks on incoming torpedoes so you will know when they have been resteered.