Tristanjohn
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Joined: 5/1/2002 From: Daly City CA USA Status: offline
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If you ever get around to the Allied air OOB, please examine the range ratings for the Hudson and Ventura bombers, both of which are discounted by plenty, and also the anemic Hurricane (a kind of composite Hurricane, the IIb if I recall, which is quite useless in play and not representative of what flew in-theater--at one time I was told they ran out slots for Allied planes, but why they came up with the IIb as the "most representative" Hurricane is the question). Those bomber ranges for the Hudson and Ventura especially can be critical to Allied play, and are required to be beefed up. For all I know this stuff has already been addressed by someone in the CHS project, and if so fine, but it should be double-checked. In order to do a test of air combat, I did some Allied planes - and noted they were downgraded in weapons loads and range - except where range is exaggerated. While the "SBD" is a version not available until 1943, nevertheless it lacks even its 1941 bomb load, for example! I just redid ranges and bomb loads for all Allied heavy bombers for CHS - and the data was remarkable. Normal range was with 4,000 pounds of bombs (rather than the real 5,000 pounds), and max bomb loads were grossly understated. In spite of the light loads, ranges were almost uniformly too short - the opposite of the effect of a light load. So I am prepared to believe other problems like this exist. Has anyone fixed them for any mod? Chime in and I will use them - it would take me some time to do it all from scratch. RHS is a team effort too - just not a committee in the usual sense. Instead of consensus, we have standards - any person who submits work to standard gets it accepted - first done gets preference. Yes, there are mistakes all over the place, on both sides of the board. It's almost as if someone did it on purpose. A person would need to be very dumb to get it that wrong accidentally. That thread I started and directed you to was intended to serve both as a place to put my ongoing research vis-a-vis the OOB and to stuff old articles I'd written on the subject going back to whenever. But I gave up in frustration and disgust. That was six or seven months ago I guess. Not sure what standards can be accepted in the usual sense, as a lot of data out there conflicts. Also, I don't own any references for the air wars in World War II, so my research in that respect is confined to the Net. Not necessarily bad, but I miss hardcopies by reputable authors, you know? I never paid the air war much mind in terms of the minutia. I trained myself in that area as I went along, after I opened up UV for the first time and saw how screwy that was. Pretty much all the mistakes from that game were slavishly carried over, with appaprently little effort (if any effort at all) made to pick up the most egregious errors, even after long bouts of serious debate in the UV forums. But you indicate that you were around then, so you must remember that, or at least some of it. Anyway, if you would like help let me know. I'll do what I can. Just let me know exactly what you want help on so that we don't suffer from redundancy of effort. I do have time as a rule, but I hate to waste it just the same.
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Regarding Frank Jack Fletcher: They should have named an oiler after him instead. -- Irrelevant
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