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Title: New Battleships
Post by: LePaul on July 29, 2006, 01:00:51 AM
Like the Argo! (http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=n0FX8I0V3Qc)
Title: New Battleships
Post by: EagleEyes on July 29, 2006, 08:01:08 AM
Id love to see battleships.  Think it would make sea to sea fighting even more intense!! Not to mention more bombaring enemy town for LVT landings!! :D
Title: New Battleships
Post by: Hornet33 on July 29, 2006, 08:01:37 AM
I LOVED that cartoon when I was a kid!!!!! Too bad that clip didn't show them firing the Wave Motion Gun. That thing rocked:aok
Title: New Battleships
Post by: Bogie603rd on July 29, 2006, 12:08:57 PM
Yeah, it's time to expand the sea section. So far GV and airplanes have been expanded, I think that the next update will include some kind of naval option.
Title: New Battleships
Post by: handy169 on July 29, 2006, 12:20:22 PM
http://www.starblazers.com
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Post by: Bogie603rd on July 29, 2006, 02:50:07 PM
How about instead of using animated films to show what kind of a destroyer we want. We use a picture, such as:
(http://www.history.navy.mil/photos/images/dod/8505379.jpg)
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Post by: viper215 on July 29, 2006, 04:13:48 PM
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Originally posted by Bogie603rd
How about instead of using animated films to show what kind of a destroyer we want. We use a picture, such as:
(http://www.history.navy.mil/photos/images/dod/8505379.jpg)



QJUAH!!!!!!!!!!!!!
Title: New Battleships
Post by: Grits on July 29, 2006, 06:24:44 PM
LOL...forget the guns, what we need are those 8 Tomahawk missle modules.

I can see the Toolsheddarz now..."ok...1 Tomahawk for the VH...1 for the Ord..."
Title: New Battleships
Post by: handy169 on July 29, 2006, 06:28:09 PM
hell with that .. just one for the base.. one tomahawk with the cluster munitions can take out  300 sq yards
Title: battleship,...row? never!
Post by: stephen on July 31, 2006, 04:45:36 PM
Drooool  Iowa.. i wonder why we currently have ships classd as cruisers,not complaing it just hasnt ever been exlained to me why we arent firing 16 inch projectiles, or are we?
Title: Re: battleship,...row? never!
Post by: EagleEyes on July 31, 2006, 05:45:02 PM
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Originally posted by stephen
Drooool  Iowa.. i wonder why we currently have ships classd as cruisers,not complaing it just hasnt ever been exlained to me why we arent firing 16 inch projectiles, or are we?


No, they are 8 inch.  I think we need 16 inch guns, would be a great fun for sea battles!
Title: New Battleships
Post by: Grits on July 31, 2006, 05:52:41 PM
Actually I think the largest naval gun in use with the US Navy right now is 5". It is a semi-auto rapid fire system on some of the guided missle cruisers.
Title: New Battleships
Post by: handy169 on July 31, 2006, 06:44:38 PM
and DDG's ..biggest guyns  i remember shooting where the 3 inch ' 50's onboard the LST i was on .. i missed that
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Post by: mussie on August 01, 2006, 08:42:48 AM
Starblazers was cool.....

I remember watching that when I was but a young an... Gonna have to find a copy for my kids...LOL
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Post by: Bogie603rd on August 01, 2006, 10:23:36 AM
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Originally posted by Grits
LOL...forget the guns, what we need are those 8 Tomahawk missle modules.

I can see the Toolsheddarz now..."ok...1 Tomahawk for the VH...1 for the Ord..."

Wait a minute, thats way ahead the 1940's!! I thought this was WWII, not the Cold War.
Title: New Battleships
Post by: Grits on August 01, 2006, 11:18:30 AM
I know, I was just noting in my own way that in the last use of the Iowa BB's the Tomahawks were more potent than the 16" guns. Not that the 16"rs were useless, but the Tomahawk was the main tool of the BBs, which is an awfully expensive platform to shoot missles off of.
Title: New Battleships
Post by: helldiver on August 01, 2006, 03:26:09 PM
how about the japanese kongo-class battleships?:aok :aok
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Post by: E25280 on August 01, 2006, 07:46:14 PM
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Originally posted by Grits
I know, I was just noting in my own way that in the last use of the Iowa BB's the Tomahawks were more potent than the 16" guns. Not that the 16"rs were useless, but the Tomahawk was the main tool of the BBs, which is an awfully expensive platform to shoot missles off of.
Yeah, but it's a shame to have mothballed them.  Sure, you can launch cruise missiles from smaller / cheaper platforms.  But doing so lacks the psychological factor that hearing / seeing those big guns each launch 2000lbs of death fifteen miles inland.

Cruise missiles hit their targets . . . usually a building or bunker.  No fear there.  Walk away from the target.  You're safe.

But OMFG those shells are raining everywhere seemingly at random -- NO PLACE IS SAFE! ! ! !




But maybe that is just me.
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Post by: Treize69 on August 01, 2006, 08:44:48 PM
Imagine being able to rain a Lancasters worth of destruction on a coastal target salvo after salvo...

Not to mention that you would probably have 5" guns that could fire to the front or rear without being blocked by the turrets on a full-sized BB.
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Post by: DiabloTX on August 01, 2006, 10:42:11 PM
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Originally posted by helldiver
how about the japanese kongo-class battleships?:aok :aok


Yeah.  It would be cool to fly over one and just watch it stop and explode on it's own!!
Title: New Battleships
Post by: Scherf on August 01, 2006, 11:12:43 PM
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Originally posted by Grits
LOL...forget the guns, what we need are those 8 Tomahawk missle modules.

I can see the Toolsheddarz now..."ok...1 Tomahawk for the VH...1 for the Ord..."



Give me teh V-1!
Title: New Battleships
Post by: FiLtH on August 02, 2006, 12:50:34 AM
I loved Star Blazers!
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Post by: Bogie603rd on August 02, 2006, 10:27:08 AM
V-2, okay, but not V-1's! They were believed to be awaiting a nuclear device so that hitler could send it into london. And that's where No. 633 squadron came in. Because what they bombed was not what they were told. About it being a possible creation site for the Rocket Fuel of the ME-163. It was an area believed to house the research and creation of a nuclear device.
Title: New Battleships
Post by: Mr No Name on August 02, 2006, 01:36:11 PM
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Originally posted by Bogie603rd
V-2, okay, but not V-1's! They were believed to be awaiting a nuclear device so that hitler could send it into london. And that's where No. 633 squadron came in. Because what they bombed was not what they were told. About it being a possible creation site for the Rocket Fuel of the ME-163. It was an area believed to house the research and creation of a nuclear device.


V-1s were buzz bombs... You're thinking of V-2s... V2 was the ballistic missile!
Title: New Battleships
Post by: Sabre on August 02, 2006, 02:20:54 PM
Heck, I'd be happy if we could just spawn individual player-controlled destroyer escorts.  Not much code required there, I should imagine, though we'd need to add torpedoes and smoke generators.  You could use the PT boat code as a strating place, I should think.  Also, I'd like to see an LST you could drive up to the beach and have it act as a vehicle spawn point.  And now that I'm warmed up, how about adding a tanker, ammo ship, and troop transport to fleets to emulate the fuel, ammo, and troop bunkers on land bases?  That way, you could selectively take out a fleet's ability to do certain types of missions without having to kill the flagship and wait for the respawn.

P.S. Loved "Space Battleship Yamato" (a.k.a. "Starblazers"), too.  Me and a few friends have been trying to come up with a MMOG loosely based on the concept (though not the storyline).  I'd post a picture, but I don't have it on a website I can link it too.
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Post by: Bogie603rd on August 03, 2006, 10:19:00 AM
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Originally posted by Mr No Name
V-1s were buzz bombs... You're thinking of V-2s... V2 was the ballistic missile!

Okay, so I got messed up, it's been a year since I read the book.
Title: Sabre
Post by: stephen on August 03, 2006, 08:56:31 PM
intrestingly enough my friend.. perhaps the large beach landing cargo ship that carried tanks,,{lst}?  drooooool:aok
Title: New Battleships
Post by: Iron_Cross on August 04, 2006, 12:13:55 PM
Yup Saber, I'm with you on the player controlled DE, with smoke and torpedoes.  We would also need to code smoke generators for PT's, as well.

If player controlled DE's are eventually implemented with the smoke generators that would go a long way to helping out in fleet vs fleet battles.  You lay a smoke schreen down to prevent them from guaging their fall of shot, and can use it to spring out from and lay some 5" fire on them, or torpedoes.  

It would be the battle of Samar, all over again.:D   Those tin cans really worked over the Japanese Center force, basically de-acked the big boys so that the planes had an even better chance of getting in and damaging them.