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Where's this? (2) - 7/13/2005 9:58:41 AM   
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RE: Where's this? (2) - 7/13/2005 11:43:58 AM   
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how do you extract the picture ? I can not save any pics there ?
But this is great, I spent 1 hour right away looking for familiar places

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RE: Where's this? (2) - 7/13/2005 11:53:03 AM   
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Status: offline 		Screenshot (PRINT-key) - paste in Paint - cut out interesting part - open empty page in paint - paste - adjust size - save (usually as jpg) - upload to imageshack.us (could also use the forum interal upload) - post

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RE: Where's this? (2) - 7/13/2005 12:21:26 PM   
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But I've still no idea where the pic is taken ?

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RE: Where's this? (2) - 7/13/2005 5:20:25 PM   
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RE: Where's this? (2) - 7/13/2005 5:21:09 PM   
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Status: offline 		Could be. It's not very urbanised...

EDIT: In fact, it IS Port Moresby; just found it myself. Good call by the Reverend.

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RE: Where's this? (2) - 7/13/2005 5:30:59 PM   
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Status: offline 		Ah is that what it looks like. Cool.

Are these current images?

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RE: Where's this? (2) - 7/13/2005 5:47:18 PM   
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RE: Where's this? (2) - 7/13/2005 5:55:16 PM   
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This is the new Munich Arena, in May they played the first games there.

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RE: Where's this? (2) - 7/13/2005 6:26:29 PM   
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Search: Port Moresby, PNG

And what Wikipedia has to say about it: Port Moresby

Most notable:
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The city is consistently rated as one of the most dangerous cities in the world.


So nothing has changed since WWII

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RE: Where's this? (2) - 7/13/2005 6:46:53 PM   
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RE: Where's this? (2) - 7/13/2005 9:17:50 PM   
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Status: offline 		Makes you also wonder how your BBs are able to trash the airfield, but we had that disacussion already

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RE: Where's this? (2) - 7/13/2005 9:21:33 PM   
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Makes you also wonder how your BBs are able to trash the airfield, but we had that disacussion already


Don't know how long the airfield is, but let's say 7000 ft. Using that as a "ruler", that would make the airfield well within BB range - only about 15000 feet/5000 yards. From the beach. Spotting, of course, is another problem.

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RE: Where's this? (2) - 7/13/2005 9:27:31 PM   
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RE: Where's this? (2) - 7/14/2005 6:56:46 AM   
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RE: Where's this? (2) - 7/14/2005 7:52:58 AM   
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Status: offline 		Sure at night using flares. Japs did it at Henderson often enough. PM would be no different.

Even without flares, it wouldn't be that hard to take a 2 or 3 bearing fix using points of land visually (and yes you can do that at night visually) or with radar.

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RE: Where's this? (2) - 7/14/2005 8:00:46 AM   
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Status: offline 		Chez, taking location fixes at night is one thing, but spotting the fall of artillery sheels from a plane at night is probably not very effective (at least during WW2, modern day is an exception), especially on a blacked out target.

You would know better than I, but I thought that flares work better for highlighting a target to spotters at surface level rather than for spotters looking down from above. Is there enough reflection via flares to make out the details at altitude?

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RE: Where's this? (2) - 7/14/2005 11:58:14 AM   
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about the age of the pics, they vary wildly. On some it is obviously summer (all green) on some everything is brown (fall, winter). Some road around here was modernized and straightened 1 1/2 years ago. In the pic it still is in the old shape.

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RE: Where's this? (2) - 7/14/2005 1:18:06 PM   
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ORIGINAL: bradfordkay

You would know better than I, but I thought that flares work better for highlighting a target to spotters at surface level rather than for spotters looking down from above. Is there enough reflection via flares to make out the details at altitude?


Flares were and are dropped by aircraft all the time for spotting.

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RE: Where's this? (2) - 7/14/2005 4:25:17 PM   
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ORIGINAL: ChezDaJez

Sure at night using flares. Japs did it at Henderson often enough. PM would be no different.

Even without flares, it wouldn't be that hard to take a 2 or 3 bearing fix using points of land visually (and yes you can do that at night visually) or with radar.

Chez


As you point out - this involves land forces. At the Guad, they had special spotting units, and land forces conceivably could help the spotting planes locate their targets (flares, tracers fired from the ground, etc.)

At least in my game, most of the bombardments do not involve land forces - the BBs come up, plaster the field, disable a couple of thousand of troops, etc. and dash off. No ground forces involved.

Historically, there seems to be about an order of magnitude of difference (or more) in BBs shelling from the sea without ground spotters, and those shelling after troops are ashore. A pity WITP doesn't model this better.

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RE: Where's this? (2) - 7/14/2005 9:48:18 PM   
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Status: offline 		The neighborhood I live in is a new one, roughly 2.5 years old. My house is a bit over two years old. The pictures of my neighborhood do not show anything other than roads being cut and water retention ponds being dug out. So I'd guess the pictures are a few years old.

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