SAI and RJW - revisiting old friends

[antonin]

So, needing something to lift me out of a pandemic-related depression, I finally got around to installing SAI and RJW on my new Win 10 computer. My wife bought me John Campbell's "Jutland: An Analysis of the Fighting" for my birthday this year, so I've been thinking about WWI-ear naval combat a lot. Well, technically, I bought the book myself, because my poor wife has been stuck in the Philippines by the pandemic since January, but that's another sad story...  But I bought it with her enthusiastic blessing. What a wonderful woman!

Luckily I had made a CD in late 2019 with all the needed files for SAI and RJW, including my license numbers. 

I installed both games directly on the C drive rather than in Program Files. In a folder called NWS. Plugged in my license numbers. And just minutes after deciding to install them, I was playing. Unlike some other games, I had no problems installing or playing on this Win 10 computer.

A big thanks to the guys at NWS for making these great games easy to install and so darned fascinating to play. 

[williammiller]

Thanks antonin - we do appreciate the kind words and encouragement.

[antonin]

My digital sailors hate me, because my favorite conditions for randomly generated battles are either bad weather or night. I usually choose random force size as well. I love the fog of war, and I love the confusion of blundering into, and practically on top of, an enemy force in a driving rain storm.

Recently I was fighting a North Sea random battle as Germany. My force, the largest ship being a cruiser, ran into a British force with 2 battleships and various other ships. After exchanging some salvos and scoring some hits I decided to withdraw. Cruisers against battleships is not a good matchup.

But when I brought the results screen up, I discovered that the enemy force was evenly matched with mine--cruisers, light cruisers and destroyers vs same. My lookouts thought they were battleships when we met them, but they really were not.

Very nice! Fog of war is such fun...