Comments on the ships from an Ex-Squaddie

[Ripsnort]

Ex-Navy guy says:
 

"Spent 2 years on a ship as part of a                    5"-38 gun crew. Just aint no way dudes  Flame might go 10-15 feet max, and thats without flashless powder. With flashless powder (which was in use by war end?) it's less than that. And it "balls" out the end of the barrel...not really the "force" that you have there. That looks like a flash from a modern day high projectile round (like a tank or rifle round) and not the "lob-ing" effect these guns used. While this looks impressive, for me it would take away from the realism. All of this of course is based on SS44 showing the dual 5"-38 firing from the CV. I've never seen a live 12" or 16" firing so I can't comment on the others.

Next item...nice tracer. Unfortuneatly it aint real. I've fired just about every kind of round you can out of a 5", BLT, BLP,                    VT Frag, VT_non-frag, HE, AAC...not a tracer in the bunch  You can see the round leave the barrel as a long black dot. But even that quickly dissapears. It would be much more believable for me if it was a short black dot, no line, and a flash of about 6-10 feet (~1/3 it's present size?).

Other than that...tres' cool dudes!

[This message has been edited by Ripsnort (edited 12-20-2000).]

[1776]

Picky, I would say,geez!!

[Superfly]

This is from the same class cruiser in AH.  Also, note that those screenshots are without the new 8" muzzle flash.
   

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[Westy]

 A NEW muzzle flash!!! ????    

 Great!  


-Westy

[This message has been edited by Westy (edited 12-20-2000).]

[Yoda]

Please let us know what Iceman has to say about that.  

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[Zigrat]

super

is that a screenshot?


if so it looks 1000 times better than the screen from the interview