Slitherine

quote:

ORIGINAL: Lokasenna

quote:

ORIGINAL: jcjordan

In my personal scenario I've been working on, I remedy the Seamew rates plus add in the Seahawk. In my stock games, I've not had problems filling out my seaplane units except early war when the allies are screaming for any & all planes by midwar my units are fine w/ a fair amount of replacements on hand & it gets better when most of the 18 plane Kingfisher units withdraw/upgrade.

I've never noticed a problem with my USN float plane units not having enough planes, except perhaps some of the Kingfisher units which I refused to fill out.

For Seagulls, there were always plenty. But I really do not use them for anything except recon for bombardment missions. They are too few and too short-legged to be useful; any job they would do other than bombardment spotting is already being performed by more capable aircraft.

quote:

ORIGINAL: geofflambert

quote:

ORIGINAL: CaptBeefheart

The one thing late game Allied floatplanes are good for is bombardment recon, so it is nice if the pools don't run out.

I went to junior high in Irvine, CA, near MCAS El Toro, which was very cool for the air show in the years prior to "Top Gun" (i.e. it had about 20,000 attendees vs. 250,000), although less cool having F-4s and A-4s on approach near your house (engines were loud in those days). Anyway, I was surprised at how these California schools had no cafeterias, so you actually had to eat lunch outside on picnic benches. Unfortunately, this attracted gazillions of marine pigeons (i.e. seagulls) as kids would get angry at the birds, throw food at the birds, miss the birds, and then the birds would eat the food thrown at them and multiply. It was a vicious, vicious cycle. I recall getting beaned on the head once, so I did better than most of my classmates.

Cheers,
CB

Eh, eh ... what's that you say sonny?

quote:

ORIGINAL: geofflambert

How many here can still use a slide rule? It was like magic to me then. It's like the astrolabe of my time.

quote:

ORIGINAL: wegman58

quote:

ORIGINAL: geofflambert

How many here can still use a slide rule? It was like magic to me then. It's like the astrolabe of my time.

The Gorn is showing its age.

I remember as a junior in High School (spring - 1975) Brother James telling us all this would be the last time he would teach this - and pulled out the slide rule.

My father sold radiopharmaceuticals at the time (barium enemas are a REAL thing) and I had a circular slide rule of my own that survived many moves (I did 25 years in the Navy, lost it at some point).