I have not read it for a while, but I believe your last suggestion is the
right one. The Japanese destroyers were not detected visually and US Radar
sets were...
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Byron Angel
festeris66
May 19, 2012 7:34 pm
I have somewhere a list of Japanese warships fitted with radar and when they were fitted. O'Hara ("US Navy Against the Axis") describes her as newly ...
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Lou Coatney
cl52
May 20, 2012 2:25 am
I may have mentioned this before, but in Naval Action Japanese Long Lance torpedoes have a 2-turn/10 minute range. Down in St. Louis, I ran a 1:700...
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Lou Coatney
cl52
May 20, 2012 2:32 am
I really don't think you need to assign depth, Drew. Lou Coatney, ELCOAT@... Skarerasen 16, Apt 1107 1473 Loerenskog, Norway 47-45765765 ...
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Lou Coatney
cl52
May 20, 2012 2:51 am
LOTS of surprises in Naval Action's torpedo mechanics, since torpedo salvos' course is plotted in secret along with ship course and gunnery allocation ...
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Drew Jarman
drewjarman
May 20, 2012 5:39 am
Is there a concensus on if torpedoes were fired with a depth setting or not? I always thought that they had shallow or deep depending on the intended target...
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Byron Angel
festeris66
May 20, 2012 12:00 pm
Torpedo hydrostatic depth keeping mechanisms were quite adjustable. I have read one account of US torpedoes in the same spread being set to run at various...
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Drew Jarman
drewjarman
May 20, 2012 12:29 pm
So my idea of deep or shallow draft settings wasnt wide of the mark. At Jutland they were after the big ships, often missed or ran underneath their targets....
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Brian
brianmccue22312
May 20, 2012 2:31 pm
... True, but a higher percentage of torpedos hit, and each one did a lot more damage. And in the night battles in the Slot, the ranges of employment weren't...
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Lou Coatney
cl52
May 20, 2012 2:33 pm
In one of the responses, someone seemed to be deriding there being  torpedo tracks at night.  Of course, in the South Pacific anyway, anything moving...
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Drew Jarman
drewjarman
May 20, 2012 2:33 pm
The easiest system is to look at the success rate v numbers fired.. If we add in the size of spread and ranges we can sort of model a game system around the...
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Lou Coatney
cl52
May 20, 2012 4:16 pm
True. With torpedoes, you only worried about ultimate range - not intermediate ranges. Lou Coatney, ELCOAT@... Skarerasen 16, Apt 1107 1473...
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bmusler11
May 20, 2012 4:37 pm
... That's a great idea if we are talking about a tactical game focused primarily on surface warfare. After all, when all was said and done, the Americans had...
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Mal Wright
gallopingjack
May 20, 2012 5:39 pm
Just keep in mind..... Most destroyer men I ever spoke too referred to the
torpedo tubes as the ships "Main ornament". The vast majority never ever
even fired...
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willi8952007
May 21, 2012 2:26 am
I'm entering this thread a bit late so excuse me if it has ended. SBIII is adjustable. Any text editor can be used to change any of the 80+ data points in...
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Mal Wright
gallopingjack
May 21, 2012 3:29 am
http://www.buglecall.com.au/home Please note the link above to the BUGLE CALL wargames convention to be held
on the Queens Birthday weekend in Adelaide South...
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bmusler11
May 21, 2012 4:59 am
Glen, ... Yes, the manual admits to this problem; particularly at short range where the number of his can get pretty ridiculous as a result. That turns out to...
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willi8952007
May 21, 2012 4:25 pm
I have to agree with Brandon concerning the torpedo aspect of the Action Stations game. Frankly it's what i enjoy most about the game, and I will admit I do...
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bmusler11
May 22, 2012 8:15 pm
Glenn, ... Well, so do I. But I try not to reach grappling range...though the AI does not always cooperate by doing what I anticipate! ... And, it should be...
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Lou Coatney
cl52
May 22, 2012 10:48 pm
The torpedo was the Great Equalizer ... like the Colt .45 was called in the Old West.  Then look at the doomed, committee-designed DeRuyter with only 5.9"...
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Lou Coatney
cl52
May 22, 2012 10:56 pm
Not really. Our destroyers in Surigao Strait and the Japanese longrange  torpedo attack in the Philippines soon thereafter were made before gunfire.  ...
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bmusler11
May 23, 2012 1:55 am
True enough -- the new tactics progressed to doctrine. But after the Solomons, with a few exceptions, air power began to deliver most of the significant...
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Drew Jarman
drewjarman
May 27, 2012 7:04 am
I am trying to find information on the names, types, numbers and design of ships for the Royal Siamese Navy between 1894-1924. If anyone has any information...
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JC
curranjohng
May 28, 2012 9:04 pm
Thought this might be of general interest.... http://www.bbc.co.uk/news/uk-england-hampshire-18236910 HMS Caroline, a WW1 light cruiser has been a Naval...
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mark.hinds
May 29, 2012 2:29 am
There were a number of articles in Warship International magazine (published by INRO). I got the following after searching one of the article databases on...
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mark.hinds
May 29, 2012 2:58 am
You could also try Conways. MH...
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mark.hinds
May 29, 2012 3:03 am
And from a 2nd INRO database: THAILAND (includes SIAM) A resume of the battle of Koh-Chang, 17 January 1941. Jean Guiglini and K. R. Macpherson. N2/90:135....
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NavWarGames@yahoogrou...
May 29, 2012 10:06 am
Hello, This email message is a notification to let you know that a file has been uploaded to the Files area of the NavWarGames group. File :...
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Mal Wright
gallopingjack
May 29, 2012 2:09 pm
I will be visiting family as part of grandpa duty in Melbourne over the
first week of July, but expect to get a leave of absence here and there. It
would be...
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Mal Wright
gallopingjack
Jun 2, 2012 2:28 am
Not prepared by me, and a bit of a surprise as I did not know it was being
done. But the below takes you to a very clear and precise video description of how...
