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Keelbuster
Joined: 17 Oct 2005
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Location: TO, ON
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 Posted: Sat Apr 29, 2006 7:06 pm Post subject: |
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| Ducimus wrote: | | Sailor Steve wrote: | | Boats don't rust underwater. It takes air. |
Eh... you sure. I was about to accept your answer but the Titanic just hit me. That thing is one big rusticle! If it takes air to rust, then every ship on the bottom wouldnt have near the rust that they do, no? |
Good point. Also - there's air underwater. That's how fish breath.
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bill clarke
Joined: 05 Apr 2005
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Location: Canberra, Australia
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| Posted: Sat Apr 29, 2006 7:29 pm Post subject: |
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Well I am still in the middle of a patrol above Scarp Flow 1940,( played this one before, but had CTD and lost it) So this time I skirted towards Norway, as before I was harrased something bad by the RAF, got further this time but the aircraft appeared eventually. Well even at night they were up (guesss it was the northerly latitude) but these guys missed me every time, (can't remember what type they were), I couldn't use my 2cm, cause it was rough every time, but I'm gratefull for their inaccuracy, which I'm sure will become deadly accurate as the war progresses.
BTW, this square AN13 not many ships, and chasing em down in rough weather in my Type IIA is hard, so far, just one stinking tramp steamer.  |
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Sailor Steve
Joined: 22 Nov 2002
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Location: Salt Lake City, Utah
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| Posted: Sun Apr 30, 2006 3:40 pm Post subject: |
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| Ducimus wrote: | | Sailor Steve wrote: | | Boats don't rust underwater. It takes air. |
Eh... you sure. I was about to accept your answer but the Titanic just hit me. That thing is one big rusticle! If it takes air to rust, then every ship on the bottom wouldnt have near the rust that they do, no? |
True, but it takes a lot longer. When you live at sea, you get assigned to scrape off rust and repaint. When the ship hits drydock, the bottom has almost no rust. It always grows around the joints where the paint flakes off, which is why you see it around portholes and scuttles and anchor bights...but not on the bottom. |
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Keelbuster
Joined: 17 Oct 2005
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Interesting. I'm getting more and more into things nautical.
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svenks
Joined: 18 May 2005
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Location: Copenhagen, Denmark
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| Quote: | | I seriously recommend keeping your threat indicator OFF. It kills the realism and turns the game arcade. You end up spending all your time watching for the indicator to change rather than scoping the tactical situation. It also makes DC evasion way cooler when you can only guess how visible you are to the enemy. |
Yes, I would like to keep it off too, if it wasn't for the airplanes combined with TC. And you just can't "scope" for aircraft - while I do go through the motions of scanning the sky before surfacing, I have yet to see an airplane, and I don't expect to. They are just too small! So I keep my threat indicator, and no - it doesn't seem arcade to me 
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