... As in strategic life they should, being built to different requirements. This was a factor at Jutland - German ships were built to fight in the North Sea;...
Enter your vote today! A new poll has been created for the sfconsim-l group: For a computer run multiplayer space conquest game, what form of game time do you...
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... I saw that someone voted for something else. Care to elaborate one what you do like? -- TAZ...
... Hehehe... I've waited to chime in here to see what others might have to say, but there are already several solutions avaiable, my own not the least of them...
Realtime, but with really slow gameplay (construction of a light cruiser might take two real days and a trip to the nearest star system 4 hours). The player...
... I did too, because I've had something very specific in mind. Back in high school I got the hankering for something that could be called Elite Online (or X...
... cruiser might take two real days and a trip to the nearest star system 4 hours). ... etc.). When you send a ship to a distant planet you load it up with ...
Let's say, purely hypothetically of course, that a USN Nimitz class carrier takes a _single_ hit from a 750 lb HE penetrating warhead travelling at Mach 2.5...
"The missile has approximately 500-lb HE warhead, is travelling underwater at approximately 200 mph..." What happens? Well, we've made contact with an...
... No. The Russian Shkval (now apparently owned and operated by the Iranians) has this kind of performance (reportedly). The pop-up missile is the Sunburn...
"No. The Russian Shkval (now apparently owned and operated by the Iranians) has this kind of performance (reportedly)." Gadzooks! Alas, I'm not a naval expert,...
... Well, for comparison, a 16" gun is a 2,000 lb penetrating warhead, and a type-93 torpedo is a 1,000 lb warhead striking below the surface. Including...
... and a ... This much I do know. ... Any hit on any ship these days would likely be "unpleasant". The Sunburn is touted as a "carrier killer". Since it...
... Another example of this is tartarus, which I played for two years. http://www.faraway.co.uk/tartarus/index.html choice's pros: * balanced playing field...
BITS - British Isles Traveller Support http://www.bitsuk.net/ ... We're very pleased to say that, after several months of preparation, the new BITS website has...
"We're very pleased to say that, after several months of preparation, the new BITS website has gone live..." And who is the smiling face that greets us at the...
... A 16" gun's 2700 lb AP warhead had about 40 lbs of of one of the picrate based explosives as a burster, so aside from its degree of penetration it's not...
... First off, the missile may not penetrate the flight deck. USN carriers have flight decks of several inches of high-tensile steel so it's hard to say if the...
... First thing that happens is the (Anti-)Air Warfare Commander gets fired. Seriously -- I don't know, because I haven't calculated it out. But I do know...