Post by felixg91 on Dec 5, 2016 8:53:18 GMT -6
Hi Jim,
I am new as well but welcome aboard buddy- from a former jarhead. I completely agree about modern Naval Arcade gaming, your observations were 100% correct. I was playing Victory at Sea by Mongoose, its OK- but shallow and very arcade like. Mr. Miller the site administrator, owner(?) and a really decent human being to boot, recommended to me Atlantic Fleet (since FS is not easily played with new OS' a shame to be sure and after Christmas I am planning on trying to throw money, time and effort to see if I can get it to work- its well researched database convinces me I need it) Atlantic Fleet is like $10 on Steam, and it is ridiculously fun (he was 100% right so Thank You's to him big time), it is mostly all Royal Navy (including HMS Lion and USS Washington is there too)and Kriegsmarine (with the H class battleship and Type XXI U-boat included) but the graphics are exceptional, the gunnery model is different and entertaining and takes effort to master making it difficult and fun. Give it a shot Jim, for $10 bucks I got my money's worth in the first night, now they just need to do a Pacific Fleet or expand this one and add American, Japanese, Italian and French ships! They made Pacific Fleet for tablets I guess but why not PC...baffling! So while I wait for RTW2 (Steady, steady) and I ruminate on getting FS to work (it may be beyond my limited technical acumen) at least I still have Victory at Sea and Atlantic Fleet.
As for that piece of Yamato's Armor in the Navy Yard....it is from the Shinano I think I heard(?), and when that was done post war, the plate was suspended at an artificial angle (not the angle it would have been on the actual vessel had it been installed) and the shell was fired into the plate at point blank range....so the result is not indicative of a real possibility in combat from an impact by a 16/50 caliber 2700LB MK8 AP shell. That said, Yamato's armor was rather low quality and she was a massive, powerful, amazing but primitive warship, I think an Iowa class could take a Yamato, if well captained, and I KNOW a Montana Class could have, and if the turrets were impenetrable, the rest of the vessel was not and its TDS was badly flawed. I digress.:-)
Action Stations!
thanks.
Chris
I am new as well but welcome aboard buddy- from a former jarhead. I completely agree about modern Naval Arcade gaming, your observations were 100% correct. I was playing Victory at Sea by Mongoose, its OK- but shallow and very arcade like. Mr. Miller the site administrator, owner(?) and a really decent human being to boot, recommended to me Atlantic Fleet (since FS is not easily played with new OS' a shame to be sure and after Christmas I am planning on trying to throw money, time and effort to see if I can get it to work- its well researched database convinces me I need it) Atlantic Fleet is like $10 on Steam, and it is ridiculously fun (he was 100% right so Thank You's to him big time), it is mostly all Royal Navy (including HMS Lion and USS Washington is there too)and Kriegsmarine (with the H class battleship and Type XXI U-boat included) but the graphics are exceptional, the gunnery model is different and entertaining and takes effort to master making it difficult and fun. Give it a shot Jim, for $10 bucks I got my money's worth in the first night, now they just need to do a Pacific Fleet or expand this one and add American, Japanese, Italian and French ships! They made Pacific Fleet for tablets I guess but why not PC...baffling! So while I wait for RTW2 (Steady, steady) and I ruminate on getting FS to work (it may be beyond my limited technical acumen) at least I still have Victory at Sea and Atlantic Fleet.
As for that piece of Yamato's Armor in the Navy Yard....it is from the Shinano I think I heard(?), and when that was done post war, the plate was suspended at an artificial angle (not the angle it would have been on the actual vessel had it been installed) and the shell was fired into the plate at point blank range....so the result is not indicative of a real possibility in combat from an impact by a 16/50 caliber 2700LB MK8 AP shell. That said, Yamato's armor was rather low quality and she was a massive, powerful, amazing but primitive warship, I think an Iowa class could take a Yamato, if well captained, and I KNOW a Montana Class could have, and if the turrets were impenetrable, the rest of the vessel was not and its TDS was badly flawed. I digress.:-)
Action Stations!
thanks.
Chris