Slitherine

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ORIGINAL: Miller

Dan you are getting too good at this game for your own good.........John will bail either when the KB is killed or by the end of 43, whichever is sooner.

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ORIGINAL: Bullwinkle58

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ORIGINAL: Canoerebel

Not sure I'll send this email.  Not sure the latter two points are worth making since they don't respond to his points, though hey do help illustrate that feelings of "hey, you're abusing the game" are (as always) mutual.

Try:

“You never know what worse luck your bad luck has saved you from.” – Cormac McCarthy, No Country for Old Men

“But, he thought, I keep them with precision. Only I have no luck anymore. But who knows? Maybe today. Every day is a new day. It is better to be lucky. But I would rather be exact. Then when luck comes you are ready.” – Ernest Hemingway, The Old Man and the Sea

“Shallow men believe in luck or in circumstance. Strong men believe in cause and effect.” — Ralph Waldo Emerson

“Luck is not chance-
It’s Toil-
Fortune’s expensive smile
Is earned-”
– Emily Dickinson

“Luck is what happens when preparation meets opportunity.” – Seneca

“In short, they were gambling on their luck, and luck is not to be coerced.” – Albert Camus, The Plague

“You know, Hobbes, some days even my lucky rocketship underpants don’t help.” -– Bill Watterson, Calvin & Hobbes

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ORIGINAL: obvert
I just put $20 down he wouldn't!

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ORIGINAL: Chickenboy

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ORIGINAL: obvert
I just put $20 down he wouldn't!

I am publicly accepting your bet at my offered 2:1 odds.

Hey, Dan, will you accept $10 for dropping this game?

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ORIGINAL: obvert
This stuff is priceless!

Being a teacher I often bristle at statements about the word 'talent,' which is similar. I don't actually believe in that word. There is only hard work, circumstance and the ability to recognize how to take advantage of it.

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ORIGINAL: Bullwinkle58

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ORIGINAL: obvert
This stuff is priceless!

Being a teacher I often bristle at statements about the word 'talent,' which is similar. I don't actually believe in that word. There is only hard work, circumstance and the ability to recognize how to take advantage of it.

Girl of the Prairie is a teacher as well. One of her bristle-worthies is "I can't."

When I was a kid, my dad, an ex-CPO, used to say "Can't means won't. Are you refusing to do what I told you to do?" Gulp.

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ORIGINAL: obvert

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ORIGINAL: Bullwinkle58

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ORIGINAL: obvert
This stuff is priceless!

Being a teacher I often bristle at statements about the word 'talent,' which is similar. I don't actually believe in that word. There is only hard work, circumstance and the ability to recognize how to take advantage of it.

Girl of the Prairie is a teacher as well. One of her bristle-worthies is "I can't."

When I was a kid, my dad, an ex-CPO, used to say "Can't means won't. Are you refusing to do what I told you to do?" Gulp.

That's a refrain whenever I start teaching a drawing class.

"I can't draw. I've never been able to."

I just ask, "Could you do chemistry before you took the course?"

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ORIGINAL: Chickenboy

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ORIGINAL: Crackaces

BTW II) I might propose that John gets crap from a certain audience because he never recognizes the brilliance of the other guys strategy. It is always a die roll, the game, gamey play, but never John .. but if they other guy catches an unluckly break .. its John's most brillant move ever ..

I don't follow...

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ORIGINAL: Bullwinkle58

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ORIGINAL: obvert
This stuff is priceless!

Being a teacher I often bristle at statements about the word 'talent,' which is similar. I don't actually believe in that word. There is only hard work, circumstance and the ability to recognize how to take advantage of it.

Girl of the Prairie is a teacher as well. One of her bristle-worthies is "I can't."

When I was a kid, my dad, an ex-CPO, used to say "Can't means won't. Are you refusing to do what I told you to do?" Gulp.

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ORIGINAL: HansBolter

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ORIGINAL: obvert

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ORIGINAL: Bullwinkle58

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ORIGINAL: obvert
This stuff is priceless!

Being a teacher I often bristle at statements about the word 'talent,' which is similar. I don't actually believe in that word. There is only hard work, circumstance and the ability to recognize how to take advantage of it.

Girl of the Prairie is a teacher as well. One of her bristle-worthies is "I can't."

When I was a kid, my dad, an ex-CPO, used to say "Can't means won't. Are you refusing to do what I told you to do?" Gulp.

That's a refrain whenever I start teaching a drawing class.

"I can't draw. I've never been able to."

I just ask, "Could you do chemistry before you took the course?"

I couldn't do chemistry after I took the class, but I have always been able to draw! (just kidding! at least about the chemistry part. I actually did well in the subject and retain a rudimentary knowledge)

Drawing is a natural talent.

Sure those without the talent can be taught to engage in an appproximation of drawing, but their efforts will never rival those who possess the talent.

btw...I had no idea you taught drawing. My deepest respect. As some one who has the talent (led me into a career in architecture), I cringe at the thought of trying to teach it to some one else.

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ORIGINAL: Encircled

Sums it up perfectly.

When my boss annoys me, I now write him a really, really annoyed e-mail, and then delete it. Its almost as good as sending it!

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ORIGINAL: Encircled

Sums it up perfectly.

When my boss annoys me, I now write him a really, really annoyed e-mail, and then delete it. Its almost as good as sending it!


Never type in the address, you might hit the wrong button!

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ORIGINAL: Cap Mandrake

Ah, the good old "reply all" button.

Where I come from "old curmudgeon", them there are fightin' words.

Of course, we have to look it up first.

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Even with only 3-4 working torps out of the entire complement that is at least 1-2 ship kills per patrol per sub

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ORIGINAL: Canoerebel

Years ago, I did one something with an email that taught me the most frightening, embarrassing, and awful lesson.  I got a terribly snarky email from a man I do business with.  A man who I must defer to, but who is notoriously curmudgeonly and disagreeable.  When I got the email, I forwarded it to my office manager, who is a close friend and important ally.  To privately vent, I included a comment like, "Look what the sad old curmudgeon wrote this time."

Only, I hit "reply" rather than "forward."  I immediately realized what I had done, but there was no way to retrieve it before he got it.

So now I never, ever, ever say something negative in an email.  I save all that for my AAR.  :) 

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ORIGINAL: gmoney

Shark class SS has 18 torps total in 41, not sure when the XT torps are added. That means it will hit 2.7 times with a 15% success rate. A fleet class submarine (Salmon and later) carry at least 26 torps (I think, may be more) which means per patrol you can expect 3.9 successful attacks. Combined with deck gun fire, it is very possible to sink 1-2 ships per patrol per fleet boat, as long as you concentrate on enemy supply/merchant convoys and use aggressive commanders.

Now personally I'd rather damage 3-4 enemy ships putting them in the yard, rather than sink 1-2. This of course applies only to merchant shipping, I would always prefer to sink warships outright.

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ORIGINAL: Crackaces

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ORIGINAL: gmoney

Shark class SS has 18 torps total in 41, not sure when the XT torps are added. That means it will hit 2.7 times with a 15% success rate. A fleet class submarine (Salmon and later) carry at least 26 torps (I think, may be more) which means per patrol you can expect 3.9 successful attacks. Combined with deck gun fire, it is very possible to sink 1-2 ships per patrol per fleet boat, as long as you concentrate on enemy supply/merchant convoys and use aggressive commanders.

Now personally I'd rather damage 3-4 enemy ships putting them in the yard, rather than sink 1-2. This of course applies only to merchant shipping, I would always prefer to sink warships outright.

I must be missing something. In the Ammo for the torps I count 10 in the () and beside it? 3 (3) and 1 (1) XT .... Where are all the other torps?