David, "The plot writes it self!" Perhaps, it does but you're decades behind the current treatment which would start with a barely clad starlet much younger...
Actually the real movie would be made with the battle at the climax - but then we would see the "Ayesha" setting sail with "watch for the thrilling sequel:...
You're all about 80 years too late. A renactment of the Cocos action was made about 1928. It starred HMAS SYDNEY in her last days. Of course she is rigged with...
Good Morning Gentlemen: This blurb was in our local paper yesterday. The navies of North & South Korea clashed at sea Tuesday for the first time in seven years...
I believe it was an AP story as it appeared in our paper as well, though without a casualty count. So it's possible the story is repeated in many newspapers...
... - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - It retreated one hex and was flipped over to the damaged side. BT Tracy Johnson Ye olde fashioned text games at:...
Hi Guys Help I just found a bag with some 1/300 Longboats in them. Put together the smallest of the three and man it looks cool. Only problem is I dont know...
In English Hi all Two days ago I received this in my BGG mail account Hi Borja I'm Stefano Cuccurullo, from Italy. I'm looking for someone to play a FG&DN...
In the French naval history magazine "Navires et Histoire" issue 56, sept 2009, there was an article about Kriegsmarine operations against Poland in September...
Subject: [AdmiraltyTrilogy] Digest Number 1798 Command at Sea, Harpoon, Fear God & Dread Nought naval miniatures games from Clash of Arms Messages In This...
The first intentional use of smoke as a tactical device that I have run across was a USN battle exercise in 1912. Byron ... From: NavWarGames@yahoogroups.com...
Smoke could/can: 1. Reduce gunnery accuracy of both a firing and target ship, sometimes enabling small ships to close for torpedo attack. 2. Prevent...
A large and virtually continuous pall of smoke was central to Adm Vian's strategy in the 2nd Battle of Sirte, when designated groups of smoke layers kept a...
One point to keep in mind is that the employment of tactical smoke screens at sea had to await the adoption of oil-fired boilers, which could deliver truly...
How were they painted at Coronel? Were they in the Pacific colonial paint scheme of white hulls and ocher upper works or were they painted over in grey? Some...
Given that this was what, three months after the outbreak of the war, why would anyone even *think* that the ships were still in "colonial" colors? Just for...
Don't forget that PRINCE OF WALES made funnel smoke during her disengagement from BISMARCK at Denmark Strait. During the 1930s the US tested smokescreens laid...
Byron wrote: "Technically speaking, therefore, any ship either fully or partially fitted with oil firing could produce a smoke screen." And in a tactical game...
... Great. Now were they in overall grey or were they in a similar colour scheme to the High Seas Fleet at home? If just in overall grey, they are a colonial...
 Hope this helps. Frank   Colour Schemes of WW1 Warships Mal Wright posted this in Naval, Wargaming on February 20th, 2008 The following article is still...
... Thank you very much. Mal's work is very good and I thank him for making it available. However I was asking about von Spee's squadron specifically. While...
... Thank you very much. Mal's work is very good and I thank him for making it available. However I was asking about von Spee's squadron specifically. While...
The "Warship 2008" annual states that "With hostilities imminent, the East Asiatic Squadron exchanged its livery of light beige ('wet canvas') hull and yellow...
... And a very big THANK YOU Mark. This is what I expected and was my default position. It's nice to see that there is some evidence that this is correct. Of...
... Why would navies overpaint wooden decks in an era when aircraft were not a threat? Even some navies in WWII did not bother to overpaint decks to attempt to...
Hi. Seekrieg 4 notes that larger ships could turn 180 degrees in a little over two minutes. Another unsourced comment indicated larger ships took as long as...
Not really, because all ship classes have different turning circles and
times. In some instances you cant even rely on saying that smaller ones will
turn...