Again, I appreciate the straightforward side of the approach, but you are still dismissing the parameter that these "too many players" who are letting the devs get away with it, are also the equivalent of 9 players out of 10. So maybe, just maybe, they are a bit entitled to their positive opinion ...

I understand where that comes from, but still - it doesn't detract from the fact I mentioned earlier, that you did not comment on: nearly 90% of the opinions are positive, out of 3000+, in a system where unhappy buyers are more bound to post an evaluation than satisfied done. That's a lot of people ...

but not very playable.

Opinions might vary on that one. In many cases it is a fairly functional product, let's not get ahead of ourselves.
Overall, development is a messy business and apples are better not compared to oranges.

As for the rest... I suppose the overall ratings of the game on steam ...

Well these are the codes of the Fleet Command genre, they knew who they were talking to. After all, legend has it that FC was by far the best-seller of the Sonalysts line under and outside of the Jane's label IIRC - there's a reason for that.

A good portion of people potentially attracted by naval ...

Just for fun, I took one of the Sea Power missions (small British group centered on Invincible vs. small Soviet group centered on Kiev) posted in YouTube...

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=7VxEWDJq3r8

...and roughed up a Command: Modern Operations version. I got very different results. I played ...

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Some time ago this picture was leaked. It was taken from a Swedish signal intelligence plane flying well inside Swedish air space.<br/>
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P.S.: Having gone a little further in the text it has some unexpected conclusions on the Japanese army leadership and the soldierly behaviour on various levels. Against this, the Chinese lower-rank soldier is ranked higher.
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<t> Wasn't really. They make for too obvious targets. Pre-war everybody on each side agreed that torpedo attack planes would suffer horrendous losses, and we're talking single-engine planes there. Anything bigger was deemed to be naturally vulnerable, save for some speed advantage making them ...

<t> Actually the article is not so much about actual computers aboard ships, than it is about situation awareness at the Flag decision level. When the author says "analog computational power", in effect he simply means "brains" [:D] [;)]<br/>
(along with all the C3i questions that early 20th ...

<r> Here, this sums it up I think. As the others have pointed out, the tech used in a HEAT round makes it inefficient in all important aspects of naval combat: speed, accuracy & damage.<br/>
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Here's the example of what a modern 120mm (which is pretty much the diameter of a 5 inch gun) HEAT ...

<r> <QUOTE><s>[quote]</s>ORIGINAL: Wuffer<br/>
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What did they know what we didn't know? <br/>
It makes no sense, neither for China nor Italy to risk their ecconomy and their powerbase etc. for... 'just-a-flu'. <br/>
The big decision came after decisionmakers get in touch with normal mortals ...

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Oh, Chickenboy. The graphics. The graphics. Oh, the humanity!<br/>
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Tom Hanks is such a great actor. I think he produced or directed this. I wish he had insisted upon realism and hadn't settled for anything less. Oh, for something ...

<t> Zero is ice cold, 20 is the usual ambient temperature in a protected environment (aka a lab, a classroom), 30 is a hot day in summer and in most countries without generalized AC schools, companies & all would be kindly asked to close around 37, which happens to be around the temperature of the ...

Rest in Peace Bill

Very interesting, thanks!

<t> Interestingly it is actually the adaptation of a manga. It is to be taken with a grain of salt naturally (humor is very much around, don't take it as a war drama!) but it is a nice depiction of the overall folly that lead the IJN to war and destruction, with the Yamato as the central symbol of ...

<r> <QUOTE><s>[quote]</s>ORIGINAL: Chickenboy<br/>
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Remind me not to take Fuchida's word for it when I get his BDA report, please. [X(]
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Haha, true that [:D]<br/>
And it could be worse though - imagine a "PTO historian simulator" where he's the only ...

<r> Oh well, it seems we're in the same boat here, all the way down to the current location and international sanctions <E>;)</E><br/>
A good way to access battle report is Fold3 - and it's free for the first two weeks or so, so you can really check if there's something of interest. Naturally, this ...

<r> Jags,<br/>
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If you want to keep on asking your smaller questions without flooding the forum and risking to come across a grumpy old timer the wrong way, I suggest you to head over there [;)]<br/>
<URL url="https://www.matrixgames.com/forums/tm.asp?m=4669391">https://www.matrixgames.com ...

<t> This movie has a lot of research embedded in it. Make no mistakes - Emmerich loves the topic and he went to great lengths to inject some flavor. Some stuff that was asked to the Midway Roundtable and the fact some of them over there served as advisors is a very good thing. Bombs and flight gear ...