THE THREAD!!!

[warspite1]

ORIGINAL: Grollub

ORIGINAL: Chickenboy

ORIGINAL: Grollub

Good morning friends.

Back in La Suéde. I see you have managed to provide some world changing material for me to catch up upon. Or, to put it more correctly, 28 pages of drivel for me to sift through . I trust content level is low as always [:'(]

La Suede, eh? I think I had a jacket made there once. Better than La Suede? Ultrasuede...ooh la la. [:D]

French La Suéde. I'm trying to be cultivated, you twat. [:D]

Warspite1

If I may make so bold, that was excellent use of the word "twat" Grollub sir. You are clearly a most fine and talented wordsmith [:D]

[warspite1]

Ohh a twat UNP [:)]

[BrucePowers]

ORIGINAL: USS America

Time to pack up the cooler and get ready for a long afternoon and evening of hockey tryout sessions and tailgating.  

The hockey season just ended Monday night[:'(]

[Apollo11]

Hi all,

Dear thread... I am stuffed to the brim... we had barbecue with our family... [:)]

Must not eat that much... must not eat that much... must not eat that much...


Leo "Apollo11"

[Mynok]

ORIGINAL: Terminus

Rainy Saturday afternoon tithe... If only I had something to pass the time... Oh wait, I do![:D]

That's a really cool looking mapboard too.

[Apollo11]

Hi all,

ORIGINAL: Terminus

Rainy Saturday afternoon tithe... If only I had something to pass the time... Oh wait, I do![:D]

Where are our screenshoots? [;)]


Leo "Apollo11"

[DuckofTindalos]

Here's a screen shot of the only two operational areas in which I have active boats as of the first week of January 1940, the North Sea and the Southwestern Approaches:




The big circle with the box in the middle is an operational area, where all the patrolling and looking for shipping is done. The small circles are Special Mission Zones, where minelaying and other stuff (like transiting between ops areas might happen). Most ops areas are linked directly, but others aren't (like you have to pass through the Gibraltar SMZ to enter the Med).

I've finished ops in the North Sea for this turn (there wasn't much), and am about to begin in SW Approaches, where I have all of three boats available. Yay me!

[DuckofTindalos]

Here's a screenie of the Loner combat display:



As you can see, Schütze in U-25 has encountered three targets this week: a British 3,000-ton merchantman, a French 2,000-ton ditto, and a Dutch 9,000-ton tanker. The markers to the left of the ships are the Torpedo Data Computer (TDC) solutions I have for each, which count against their defensive values ("3" for the tanker).

The U-25 has an Attack rating of 5, with a +1 for Schütze's status as an "Ace" skipper, and -1 for the currently poor German torpedoes. If this were a convoy, I'd have to decide whether to split the points of Attack rating amongst the targets, but because they're loners I can fire at full power against all three.

The mechanic is simple: you take the U-Boat's modified Attack rating, subtract the modified Defence rating of the target and roll the die. If you hit the difference or below, you've hit the target.

EDIT: All three ships were sunk. Yay Schütze!

[DuckofTindalos]

Okay, four ships for 18,000 tons sunk in the SW approaches this week, with no losses of my own, although one boat is going to RTB (out of fuel and/or weapons).

[Dixie]

If you get a chance, would you be able to give a quick description of the main convoy attacks?  I'm curious as to how they differ from Silent War.

[DuckofTindalos]

I'll take a screenie next convoy I see...

[Dixie]

Once again...

Political Pressure
With Japanese submarines torpedoing Yorktown, Wasp, Saratoga and North Carolina, the brass asks why American subs aren't performing similar feats. Submarines are ordered to concentrate on warships. For all OpAreas except Empire and China only contacts with TF results are used.

Stoopid war events...

[DuckofTindalos]

I think I'll wait until I get to War Period 2 before taking that screenie. Can't form Wolfpacks until then, and it'd be more interesting if I could show you a convoy being attacked by four or five U-Boats...

[Apollo11]

Hi all,

Thanks for pics Kristian!

Very very nice indeed... I didn't think this would be so "polished"... quite impressed BTW... [X(]


Leo "Apollo11"

[Chickenboy]

ORIGINAL: Terminus
Yay Schütze!

Isn't that a German dice game? [:'(]

[Apollo11]

Hi all,

Is this for real!?!?!? [X(][X(][X(]


"Vuelo Rasante del IA 63 Pampa"

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=eebBjs507Yc


Leo "Apollo11"

[DuckofTindalos]

About 2 feet off the ground...[8|]

[Apollo11]

Hi all,

Apparently it is real... this is in cockpit video of the same thing...


"Pilot's View of the Craziest Flyby Ever! Argentina's FMA IA 63 Jet 3 Feet Off The Ground!"

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=xDDxU5sB-SI


Crazy... absolutely crazy... idiotic... moronic... [X(]


Leo "Apollo11"

[DuckofTindalos]

That pilot should be flayed alive, shot, stabbed, drowned, court-martialed and then sacked.

And by "sacked", I mean stuffed into a sack and dumped at sea.

[DuckofTindalos]

What an asshole.