m10bob
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Sid sez:
"4.At least one version of the C47 is only showing a range of "6",whereas other models of the same plane are showing a range of 8 or 9.
REPLY: Confusing. Possibly you are talking about the Russian version? It is heavy - underpowered - has to lug a turret - and it lacks the performance of other species.
I know this has been gone over before, but the plane had a range of 1500 miles.Currently, it won't even supply Johnston island from Pearl!(The USMC/USN version will make it,however.)
REPLY: Perhaps you are confused by code. RHS "reformed" transports so they fly to 42% of transfer range - and that is much more than the 33% code reports in displays. NEVER believe transport ranges in ANY version of WITP - you must divide the reported transfer range by 2 to get the actual game transport range. Sorry - I didn't write the code.
Maybe we didn't do the Marines right. But probably you will find it is real - USN flew the same planes to greater ranges with less payload and more fuel (see B-24 for example) - a function of oceanic orientation. N
EDIT: OOPS - we didn't do the Navy version conversion - so bye bye - they lose the extra endurance too. But don't be dismayed by the printed "ranges" - just use transfer range and divide by 2. I never worry about game impacts - just get the data right. Map distortion issues may or may not allow a particular flight - and we also don't get to pick alternate loadouts - regretfully. With two plane types I can do that though - will look at it - give the navy less payload more range? Maybe.
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Sid, I have 2 versions of C 47's at Pearl soon after the attack, one is USAAF,the other USMC/USN.. One is showing a "range" of 6, the other a range of 8..
IMHO,knowing the DC3 was made to fly North America to South America, the plane SHOULD be capable of flying on supply missions to Johnston Island (for instance) without "range" problems.
If load capacity needs be reduced,so be it, but a C 47 with a round trip range of under 600 miles is inaccurate, by any standards.
Sid sez:
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ORIGINAL: m10bob
Minor point . I noticed the RHS Rajula is listed as an AP, and the RHS Rhona is listed as an AK..In fact, they were sister ships. The Rhona was sunk off Carthage Tunisia by a German guided missile in 1943 enroute to Bombay India.
Here is the Rajula:
Looks to me like an AK with passenger spaces. Do you know the slot numbers? If not - what is the class?
Cannot fix em unless we can find em!
If not sunk until 1943 - en route to Bombay - that is properly in the game - unless there is a late scenario. "
During the 20's and thirties the ships had nice mahogony staircase trim and bannisters for the 100 berthed passengers.
As troopships, they caried 2200 passengers with a crew of 195.
The ships were available to assist in the evacuation of civilians from Singapore in late 1941, (so you have good dates ref involvement in the game.)
The Rhona is listed as an "Old English Cargo" class, as an AK,(in the game).
IRL, the ships were built for the British India Steamship co in 1926 for passengers and cargo, by Hawthorne Leslie and Company in Newcastle upon Tyne.
They measured 461 Ft by 62 feet with a speed of 13 knots,(AK speed fopr sure).
They were armed with 8x.50 cal MG's,6x20mm Oerlikon,2 Hotchkiss and 2xtwin Lwis .30cal MG,s.
Currently,(in game) the Rajula is slot 6593, listed as a Medium AP(Allied)..The Rhona is slot 8150, listed as an "Old British Cargo" class..
< Message edited by m10bob -- 2/19/2007 12:27:24 PM >
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