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Manual - 3/28/2002 5:15:48 AM

Jason629

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I personally have no issue with a .pdf manual that I can print off. Hell, thats what the office is for! :)

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- 3/28/2002 7:22:16 AM

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[QUOTE]Originally posted by Larry Holt
[B]I would like to add that destroyers got their name and their initial role was PT boat destroyers. This is because in the WWI era PT boats were going after capital ships. That they were not too successful in the UV time and location is more due to the wide operational area rather than any shortcomings in the possibile uses of PT boats. [/B][/QUOTE]
Actually the torpedo was developed and the Torpedo boat was designed to launch them against capital ships. So to counter them the Torpedo Boat Destroyers were created with lots of rapid fire guns. Then someone had the bright idea, that Torpedo Boats were not very sea worthy and had short range and the Torpedo Boat Destroyers were plenty fast to catch capital ships, were much more sea worthy and had guns to defend themself so why not put torpedos on Torpedo Boat Destroyers. Thus was born the modern Destroyer. So the Torpedo Boats were replaced with the Destroyers. But the Patrol Boats were still very useful and by adding Torpedos they could be even more useful in coastal areas thus creating the Patrol Torpedo Boat. Incendently the British had Motor Torpedo Boats (MTB) with very light guns with torpedos and as a counter to the German E boats they had Motor Gun Boats (MGB) without torpedos but with larger guns (6 lb's). The American PT's were modified to match the situation they found themselfs in by adding more guns and larger guns, they were much more flexible. So eventually they became Gun Boats with a side line of torpedoing any capital ships they came across. Interestinly the depth charge became the major weapon in the Med being used against coastal shipping in shollow water set for shallow depth the depth charges would break the back of very large ships, transports, barges, F-Liter, etc. There is a good book, which I don't remember the name of, written by the grandson of Charles Dickens about the British MTB operation, he was an MTB commander. And one should not forget excelent book 'At Close Quarters' by Capt. Robert J. Bulkley, Jr. Sorry I'm getting long winded.:D

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- 3/28/2002 10:54:11 AM

David Heath

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Hi Guys

We decided not to go with a printed manual. The costs for this size manual is just to costly for use to afford. The second problem was the size of the manual (100-130 pages) and that is to large to fit into our DVD Box. We are making two manual designs. One in full color and one in B/W for easy printing. We are also working on an providing an eBook one for PDF. We also included a page stating that photo copies and printouts maybe may at stores or print shops.

We put a lot of time into the manual and its big and the detail is in the manual. Of course the larger manual is better for the player but not good for our production cost.

David

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- 3/28/2002 11:33:53 AM

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Mr. Heath,
Thank you for the quick response on the manual issue. I support your decision fully. Although its always neat to have the manual ready to go, I'll burn a little ink in my printer if it will help Matrix's bottom line. You guys are the last bastion of "user-friendly" game designers, and I've loved every game I've played from you guys. Appreciate the efforts you all have put into this and I hope to be one of the first to buy UV...

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- 3/28/2002 8:32:43 PM

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Another plus of the PDF manual, is that you can email it to a friend and show him what the game is all about, thus prompting him to go out and buy a copy for himself when he sees how cool it is. Put the manual up for free download on the Matrix website, so interested parties could check it out. All that good free advertising.

Not sure if that is a copywrite infringement or anything, though.

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- 3/29/2002 6:06:57 PM

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To get a true picture of the capabilities and limitations of PT boats, I need to watch some old episodes of McHales Navy. BTW, this also gives a picture of what warefare was like in the south pacific. If anyone is interested, they are on Nick at NIght.

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- 3/29/2002 8:21:38 PM

Snigbert

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Ernest Borgnine had at least a 75 in Leadership and 80 in Inspiration

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