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Post by Adseria on Feb 4, 2022 16:09:09 GMT -6
"Gentlemen, I believe I should make my intentions for the battle tonight plain. As you know, we only have half a dozen destroyers available because the entire Grand Fleet is busy scratching their backsides back in Portsmouth, and it's 1902, so our torpedoes are about as useful as a brick wall in a wind tunnel (whatever that is). As a result, I have come to the conclusion that there is only one way to win this battle." "Jolly good show, chaps! Same time tomorrow?
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Post by seawolf on Feb 4, 2022 17:57:20 GMT -6
A log entry that reads "Torpedo Magazine hit" is recording a torpedo hit abreast of the magazines, not an unspecified hit to the torpedo magazines. Also, as far as I am aware, there is no hit location called a "torpedo magazine" in-game.
Your ally's destroyer sank the battleship by scoring a torpedo hit that detonated the main magazines, not by putting a 2" shell into the 'torpedo magazines.'
The reort in the Damage Log reads "Torpedo Magazine hit" without punctuation. "Torpedo, Magazine hit" should probably be stated. If a ship is hit by an 8" shell it will read "8" Magazine hit" not meaning a hit to the enemy's 8" Magazine, simply an 8" round has hit the magazine. Commas (or semi-colons?) would help in the description. This text layout applies to BE, TT, etc. for hit notations in the Damage Log. I'm not sure why the "mysterious" * doesn't show when the Magazine is penetrated for a detonation. That's a good suggestion for readability, but I would point out that every single hit in RTW is recorded Weapon_R ange_H it-type_( Firing Ship), with range excluded for bombs and torpedoes, so its pretty obvious that this was a torpedo hit using their standard format, as no shell type or range is mentioned. No * is used because only bomb and shell hits need to calculate whether it penetrated, adding an extra * for every torpedo hit would just be extraneous and might confuse a player by implying you can have non-penetrating torpedo hits.
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Post by Adseria on Feb 4, 2022 18:58:22 GMT -6
You know, some of these historical naval technologies could be mistaken for double entendres. Just a thought.
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Post by wlbjork on Feb 5, 2022 2:52:58 GMT -6
You know, some of these historical naval technologies could be mistaken for double entendres. <button disabled="" class="c-attachment-insert--linked o-btn--sm">Attachment Deleted</button> Just a thought. I blame the salty seamen for that - especially with the other rude names you can make for various characters.
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Post by director on Feb 5, 2022 10:41:48 GMT -6
Mae West - and just about any comedian - are proof that almost anything becomes a double entendre with the right spin.
Wait... you mean gate ISN'T obscene?
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Post by Adseria on Feb 7, 2022 18:56:57 GMT -6
I think the boffins might need to double check the fuse settings on our torpedoes. Or, should I say, the altitude settings?
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Post by Adseria on Feb 7, 2022 19:28:54 GMT -6
"Torpedo, torpedo, torpedo!" *Explosion* "Damage report!" "Electrics are down, sir! We're drifting!"
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Post by Adseria on Feb 7, 2022 20:01:42 GMT -6
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Post by garrisonchisholm on Feb 21, 2022 10:16:30 GMT -6
"Sir, that zeppelin is about 4 miles out now, I'm going to take my wing-man up and shoo him off."
"Oh non-sense Gilmore, don't waste the fuel, those things are notoriously difficult to shoot down. He'll get bored and wander away eventually."
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Post by attemptingsuccess on Feb 21, 2022 12:44:59 GMT -6
Unlucky hit!
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Post by Adseria on Feb 22, 2022 6:46:28 GMT -6
Or lucky, if you're German. Or normal, if you're Japanese.
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Post by attemptingsuccess on Feb 23, 2022 10:21:10 GMT -6
Yeah it looks like fueled aircraft contributed largely to the problem
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Post by stww2 on Mar 17, 2022 9:27:18 GMT -6
Not from Rule the Waves, but from the Steam and Iron North Sea Campaign, playing as the UK:
After destroying a German light cruiser force that had attempted a sweep in the North Sea, my forces were returning to their bases when I got a nighttime contact report from the French Dunkerque Nord coastal artillery battery which claimed to have sighted "2 BB 4 CL." Now, I didn't believe for a second that that heavy of a German force had made it that far into the English Channel; I already believed I had defeated the main German force for that turn and the nearest German bases in German occupied Belgium were only capable of accommodating destroyers. So I figured I was probably dealing with some light German forces, most likely destroyers; contact reports in SAI being notoriously unreliable after all (even more so than in RTW I think). I wasn't prepared for just how inaccurate the contact report ended up being...when daylight came and Harwich Force's cruisers and destroyers surged into the channel the German forces consisted of a grand total of...two 50 ton Armed Trawlers. One was easily taken out in a very one-sided engagement with a light cruiser and the other escaped back to a German base in Belgium.
Post-battle analysis revealed that there had been a third trawler which had been taken out by the French battery. But still...three 50 ton craft being reported as two dreadnoughts and four light cruisers...that has to be the most erroneous sighting report I've encountered in this franchise.
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Post by attemptingsuccess on Mar 17, 2022 15:51:35 GMT -6
Honestly not that insane. It isn't as bad as everything Kamchatka reported through her entire journey, If a costal battery is searching for dreadnoughts, then it is likely that they will report dreadnoughts no matter what they see. Maybe they were weird looking, and besides they might have been from the french artillery and thus might not have gotten a lot ship identification training.
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Post by director on Mar 18, 2022 13:12:34 GMT -6
I can just imagine two aviators talking:
'Back seat' - "I see two destroyers. Or something smaller." 'Front seat' - "Don't waste my time. Nobody will pay any attention to that." 'Back seat' - "OK. I see maybe two light cruisers. And a seaplane tender." 'Front seat' - "You don't get it, do you?" 'Back seat' - "OK. I'm calling in six battleships, four cruisers, two carriers and 'leventy-seven destroyers. One of the battleships is bigger than the state of Delaware and it's flying the Admiral's personal flag." 'Front seat' - "We're gonna be famous!"
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