<r> Alan, thank you very much for taking the time to post so comprehensive a reply to my questions about the fifth midget. <br/>
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<r> Alan, since you have extended an invitation to discuss the points made in you book, I should like to hear more about the conclusions you reached with regard to the fifth midget submarine.<br/>
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You participated in the mammoth thread dealing with this subject on the j-aircraft board, and I ...

<r> Ah "Scholl"… no, on second thoughts I'll not respond to your vacuous rehearsal of the obvious, as it will only encourage you to descend to the personal abuse in which you engaged in the "SLC = 15K VP" thread.<br/>
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@Big B: You can find quite detailed information about all the kaibokan ...

<r> John, you are right to chide me for over-simplifying. And I take your point about the rate of increase in sequential hit probabilities. Nevertheless, the larger the number of weapons an ASW ship can put in the water on a single pass, surely the more effective its attack is likely to be? <br ...

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cantona going on a honeymoon...................until August 7th!<br/>
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<r> <QUOTE><s>[quote]</s>ORIGINAL: JWE<br/>
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This is NOT THE ALGORITHM. It is an UTTER SIMPLIFICATION, but it might give you some idea of what's involved. A slot might have Num of 2, 3, 4. Think of 2^Num and you get 4, 8, 16. Think of that as a % chance to hit with that slot. Now make a slot ...

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I don't think you really read what is said....<br/>

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Just mod it and give them historical numbers...and see ...

<t> Fine, but that leaves unanswered the question of what historical capability is being achieved. The Japanese C- and D-gata kaibokan had the historical capability of firing 12 d/c launchers on a single run. Their game equivalents only have a capability of firing 6. That is somewhat counter ...

<t> Rather than engage in a wide ranging discussion about what was good and bad in IJN ASW, I would like to get back to the specific changes made to the data in this version of Big Babes, and the underlying reasons for them.<br/>
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The starting point was the perception that "there's still some ...

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In fact, all adjustments are being made to Babes according to the stated paradigm. You just ...

<r> Having now had an opportunity to take a good look at the changes wrought to ASW-capable ships in the current version of Big Babes, I'm sorry to say that I have reservations about whether overall they are a Good Thing, as they stand.<br/>
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I think I understand the argument that the later ...

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I once posted (maybe in WITP) about a book, I think its AFTER PEARL HARBOUR, The story of the IJN attack pilots after Pearl Harbour.<br/>
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KNIGHT OF THE ...

<t> Of course, another relevant factor was design detail such as the squared-off corners of the holds and accommodation hatches that provided stress concentration points at which cracks were likely to start. A consideration that seems to have eluded the designers of the de Havilland Comet. [:(]<br ...

Chinese Lancasters Remember it well... Whoops!

<r> I probably over-simplified by referring only to the metallurgical properties of the steel used, since low temperature seems also to have been a significant factor, both in initiation of the crack and the ability of plates to arrest it. Obviously the presence of welded seams was also a ...

<r> Some of those SSC reports are a bit deep for me, but SSC-52 and SSC-63 are eminently readable - Thanks, JWE!<br/>
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<r> The implication of your post seems to be that the structural failures were the direct result of the widespread applicsation of welding to construction of the Liberties. I think that may be misleading, since from what I have read the problem arose not from the adoption of welding techniques but ...

<t> If the original artwork was created @ 1000 ppi then a 200 X 60 pixel image would only have been one-fifth of an inch in width, which is much smaller than the correct size. How did you re-scale the image to 96 ppi, and in what art package? In what way does such re-scaling affect the original ...

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Dairen and Port Arthur were different places. Dairen was a city, known as Dalny to the Russians, and Dalian to the chinese. Port Arthur was a port known as Lüshun to the chinese. The characters for Lüshun pronounced Ryojun in Japanese (but I ...

<t> Blimey, this thread's just taken rather a discursive turn! [:D]<br/>
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John, thanks for the tip about the ship types that can take part in a bombardment. Something I ought to gave known already, but the alphabet soup of some of the small types can throw me.<br/>
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For ASW training, I ...