<r> <QUOTE><s>[quote]</s>Naval Fire Control Systems WW2..(The size of the gun is not always better). <e>[/quote]</e></QUOTE>
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Generically speaking...bigger is almost always better. A BB has better optical fire control system than a CL (for example). The directors are wider. Wider mean better ...

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<QUOTE><s>[quote]</s>ORIGINAL: jwilkerson<br/>
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If you look in the editor - for both WITP and AE you will see that this is true. Accuracy is very much inversely proportional to gun size.<br/>

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This might be true in absolute terms if you bolted a 6" and ...

<r> Brady, we all know the game mechanics allow the Strike Force to remain on station for 5-6 days. Why are we having this discussion? I thought it was to determine whether it was historically feasible. The answer is a qualified YES. Qualified by the historical weather/sea state on the night of the ...

<r> [font="arial"]<SIZE size="4"><s>[size="4"]</s>The bottomline (as I'm seeing it) is that they had enough fuel to launch/recover a 3rd strike, and still make it to the tanker rendevous with a comfortable margin for error. If they stayed and launched attacks on the 8th, they could have made it to ...

<r> <I><s>[i]</s><SIZE size="4"><s>[size="4"]</s>Interesting bit of useless trivia from a tanker TROM;<br/>
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"<e>[/size]</e></SIZE><SIZE size="4"><s>[size="4"]</s><B><s>[b]</s>Summer 1941: <br/>
Enroute to Los Angeles to load a cargo of oil, KENYO MARU stops at Kwajalein, Marshall Islands ...

<r> Dan Bowen hit it right.&nbsp; Any ASW assets you tie down in the rear, are assets that aren't being used at the front.&nbsp; What was the point of having long range I-boats that could carry midgets, if you didn't transport them long-distances?&nbsp; Then using the midgets against the most ...

<r> <I><s>[i]</s>"I think its prety clear they did."<e>[/i]</e></I><br/>
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"On hand", is NOT the same as "in the destroyers bunkers, ready to be burned".&nbsp; Historically, they had enough fuel, in the capital ships, to remain on station.&nbsp; Historically, the DDs had to be refueled ...

<t> Doesn't matter how much fuel was aboard the tankers or the capital ships, the problem was getting it to the destroyers in a timely manner, under combat conditions.&nbsp; <br/>
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Real life isn't a computer game.&nbsp; In the game, unlike real life, refueling isn't interrupted by weather/sea ...

<t> No doubt to late, but tie the unit report screen to unit morale/disruption/damage levels.&nbsp; Maybe below certain levels it's greyed out, or the stats could be off +/- accordingly, and highlighted.&nbsp; i.e. a unit that just got the crap kicked out of it, retreating in disorder, etc., it's ...

<r> <I><s>[i]</s>"If we see ridiculously frequent instances of this sort of thing, I'll become concerned and take action."<e>[/i]</e></I><br/>
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Just as in the surface combat routines, PT boats, Zero's, A to A, etc. etc. that people are discussing, this is <B><s>[b]</s>exactly the correct ...

<r> <I><s>[i]</s><B><s>[b]</s><B><s>[b]</s><B><s>[b]</s><B><s>[b]</s><B><s>[b]</s><B><s>[b]</s>"3 April 1943:<br/>
Moewe anchorage. Boeing B-17 "Flying Fortresses" of the Fifth Air Force's 43rd Bomb Group attack moored AOBA. The big bombers skip-bomb from between 75 and 250 feet with delayed-action ...

Field artillery battery wagon, not a limber/caisson I think.

Guy in the center looks like he's wearing a dirk on a wide belt.&nbsp; SNLF?&nbsp; Something odd in the pic, can't put my finger on it...CRS kicking my butt.

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It's a&nbsp;"strategic level war game" covering a war that has been described as a "Battle of Logistics"...kinda oughta&nbsp;actually involve&nbsp;developing a logistics tail.&nbsp; Boring and non-sexy though that may be.&nbsp; When I consider some of the really pointless crap we&nbsp ...

Type 38 12cm Howitzer
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HK, maybe?

<t> One piece of the solution IMO; Use port/transportation units to modify the port cargo handling speeds and storage capacities.&nbsp; Give each port size (based on the size of the base unit present) a baseline cargo loading/unloading speed, ground "diffusion of supplies&nbsp;via roads to connected ...

<r> [font=arial]<SIZE size="4"><s>[size=4]</s>Found the photo on-line captioned as <e>[/size]</e></SIZE>[/font][font=arial]<SIZE size="4"><s>[size=4]</s><I><s>[i]</s>"An F4U-1A Corsair of the Blacksheep Squadron VMF-214, taxiing for take-off on Vella Lavella in 1943"<e>[/i]</e></I>.&nbsp; <e>[/size ...

Frankly, it looks like a model diorama of a Corsair, with a picture background.&nbsp;

<t> I think you're confusing the end result of years of intensive, more or less non-stop&nbsp;construction with what they started with.&nbsp; The original runway was low and wet.&nbsp; Period movies/stills of it show the planes taking off/landing through standing water, sending up sheets of water ...

<t> Adak actually illustrates&nbsp;my point to my thinking.&nbsp; IIRC, the lagoon/tidal basin floor was firm flat ground (i.e. "decent terrain"), the initial work was diverting the water and laying matting down to support fighter ops.&nbsp; Fairly straight-forward brute force engineering, although ...

<t> IJN air units not my thang, but I thought Zuikaku was re-equipped with Mod. 22s between Coral Sea and Jan/Feb '43?&nbsp; What was the camo/paint scheme on the Mod. 21s you have a pic of?&nbsp; The light olive, or the dark green?&nbsp; Somewhere in that time frame is when they transitioned over ...