Tugboat
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Admiral
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 | | 20 Aug 2010 08:13 PM | | | | | Battling: SMS Scharnhorst, SMS Baden
Building: HMS KGV (Drives, pumps water, guns are in but not plumbed)
MN Edgar Quinet (Hull done)
Drydock/Mothballed: Rus Evstafi, DKM Lutzow, HMS Invincible
Plus 20-odd other projects, according to my Boy Scouts who thoughtfully counted them for me. | |
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warspiteIRC
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Posts:476
| | 20 Aug 2010 11:37 PM | | Good Hunting, see ya' in Oct! | | | |
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Keri Morgret
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Site Owner
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Posts:383
| | 21 Aug 2010 01:07 PM | | I'll be square, and enjoying our predicted high of 70 degrees today. =] | | | |
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Anachronus
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Posts:2286
| | 21 Aug 2010 01:26 PM | | I'll be so square you can call me a tesseract. | | | Vive la France! | |
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Tugboat
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Admiral
Posts:4540
| | 21 Aug 2010 03:55 PM | | I'm so square that I had a clogged pump kill me in the 2nd sortie, followed by a pump-impeller-setscrew failure killing me in the third (they let me come back out after cleaering it in the 2nd)
I'm home now, cooling off in the AC, then I will run out to the shop and solder together a brass impeller. | | | Battling: SMS Scharnhorst, SMS Baden
Building: HMS KGV (Drives, pumps water, guns are in but not plumbed)
MN Edgar Quinet (Hull done)
Drydock/Mothballed: Rus Evstafi, DKM Lutzow, HMS Invincible
Plus 20-odd other projects, according to my Boy Scouts who thoughtfully counted them for me. | |
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Anachronus
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Posts:2286
| | 21 Aug 2010 05:25 PM | | Not sure that is square, but it is following a theme. | | | Vive la France! | |
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Tugboat
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Posts:4540
| | 21 Aug 2010 05:46 PM | | The outside of the pump housing is mostly square  On the plus side, today I finally had decent guns. It won't last, but it was nice to see what it was like lol. | | | Battling: SMS Scharnhorst, SMS Baden
Building: HMS KGV (Drives, pumps water, guns are in but not plumbed)
MN Edgar Quinet (Hull done)
Drydock/Mothballed: Rus Evstafi, DKM Lutzow, HMS Invincible
Plus 20-odd other projects, according to my Boy Scouts who thoughtfully counted them for me. | |
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warspiteIRC
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Posts:476
| | 21 Aug 2010 09:58 PM | | How did the battleling go? | | | |
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Anachronus
Rear Admiral (RADM)
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| | 21 Aug 2010 11:12 PM | | So long as you bring honor to the Armored Cruiser Club. Hard hitting guns will teach them not to mock us! | | | Vive la France! | |
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Tugboat
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Admiral
Posts:4540
| | 22 Aug 2010 06:17 AM | | Yeah, I'm fighting well. Dave Ranier and Don Cole seem to be attacted to lil Scharnie for some reason. They keep pushing my boat around and have people block me off. So I might have accumulated a few ram penalties for below the WL rams. I don't like ramming, but it's hard to get away and lil Scharnie don't slow down so good, even with solid drag discs. | | | Battling: SMS Scharnhorst, SMS Baden
Building: HMS KGV (Drives, pumps water, guns are in but not plumbed)
MN Edgar Quinet (Hull done)
Drydock/Mothballed: Rus Evstafi, DKM Lutzow, HMS Invincible
Plus 20-odd other projects, according to my Boy Scouts who thoughtfully counted them for me. | |
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Anachronus
Rear Admiral (RADM)
Posts:2286
| | 22 Aug 2010 09:47 AM | | Foul tactics! They can't stand the magnificence of the Armored Cruiser so the penalize you by making you ram them. Typical Allied treachery....oh...wait...nvm. | | | Vive la France! | |
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Tugboat
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Posts:4540
| | 22 Aug 2010 01:29 PM | | Yes, when I did ram Rick King's Graf Spee (we were flag/no flag as the allies were afraid to fight against Axis with only a 2-to-1 advantage), I told him that I thought I'd hit him pretty good and that he might need to check it. I didn't totally cave in a panel, but it needed fixing.
I was going to sand my ram bow flat, but some measuring revealed that Lil Scharnie's bow is not thick enough to sand to an appreciably flat point. Their fiberglass guy is GOOD, I'd have bet that it was solid for a half inch or an inch in that area, it's hard to lay up those areas... So I will have to pour some epoxy in there and then sand it flat to avoid doing too much ram damage; I never had any before I got this ship. At least the guns played nice!
My Spektrum receiver pooped the bed this morning; it won't stay bound to the tx. Every time I remove the power from the rx, it loses it's bind. So I'm shopping for a new rx. I will also be epoxy potting my Exceed RC Rx for future use... October battle coming!! | | | Battling: SMS Scharnhorst, SMS Baden
Building: HMS KGV (Drives, pumps water, guns are in but not plumbed)
MN Edgar Quinet (Hull done)
Drydock/Mothballed: Rus Evstafi, DKM Lutzow, HMS Invincible
Plus 20-odd other projects, according to my Boy Scouts who thoughtfully counted them for me. | |
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Anachronus
Rear Admiral (RADM)
Posts:2286
| | 22 Aug 2010 01:43 PM | | At least Edmund's bow has a gentle curve to it. Not pointy at all.
Now King Edward VII/Lord Nelson...very pointy.
| | | Vive la France! | |
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Tugboat
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Admiral
Posts:4540
| | 22 Aug 2010 01:47 PM | | Mike M told me he did a Circle of Death match at Nats, no holds barred... said he had Verite going like speed 18, and made full use of the ram bow Ah, if only I'd been there to see it | | | Battling: SMS Scharnhorst, SMS Baden
Building: HMS KGV (Drives, pumps water, guns are in but not plumbed)
MN Edgar Quinet (Hull done)
Drydock/Mothballed: Rus Evstafi, DKM Lutzow, HMS Invincible
Plus 20-odd other projects, according to my Boy Scouts who thoughtfully counted them for me. | |
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Anachronus
Rear Admiral (RADM)
Posts:2286
| | 22 Aug 2010 02:43 PM | | Brilliant! Vive la Verite! That will teach them to respect Predreads. | | | Vive la France! | |
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djranier
Rear Admiral (RDML)
Posts:1447
| | 22 Aug 2010 10:30 PM | | Don and I were attracted to all the other boats, not just Clark's little Armored cruiser. I think they all got sunk again, one way or another. Little Jenny's Mississippi was I think the only other boat that did not sink, except for the cruiser's that always run away.
Tim did a great job on the Mississippi, I was quite impressed with it. It did look more like a bobber floating around more than a ship.
I think you rammed Don's Duke pretty well also Clark, when he was pumping hard that one time, and his pump got clogged with the Georgia muck and he went down, he checked it and found a nice big ram hole in it. | | | Its better to give than to receive.
Southeast Attack Squadron | |
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Anachronus
Rear Admiral (RADM)
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| | 22 Aug 2010 10:51 PM | | I'd love to see a picture of that Mississippi. I have the hull but have put off doing any thing with it for the moment. | | | Vive la France! | |
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Tugboat
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Admiral
Posts:4540
| | 23 Aug 2010 06:36 AM | | Two things: 1) It's not a cruiser's job to slug with battleships 2) Rams not called are rams that didn't happen I _am_ going to be doing as Don suggested and pour a bit of West into the bow and then grind it down flat. I don't really like averaging 2 or 3 damaging rams per battle. J, little Jenny with the PDN was having fun and doing well. Must be something in the Krakowski genetics, her older brother is getting good in his cruiser. Good enough that his dad has explicitly told us to give him no slack. I think he's like 9 years old? | | | Battling: SMS Scharnhorst, SMS Baden
Building: HMS KGV (Drives, pumps water, guns are in but not plumbed)
MN Edgar Quinet (Hull done)
Drydock/Mothballed: Rus Evstafi, DKM Lutzow, HMS Invincible
Plus 20-odd other projects, according to my Boy Scouts who thoughtfully counted them for me. | |
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djranier
Rear Admiral (RDML)
Posts:1447
| | 23 Aug 2010 07:13 AM | | Did you already replace the nose with foam like you were talking abouit doing? You would think that would of helped some. | | | Its better to give than to receive.
Southeast Attack Squadron | |
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Anachronus
Rear Admiral (RADM)
Posts:2286
| | 23 Aug 2010 10:28 AM | | @Tug - More evidence of the wonderfulness of PDN's. | | | Vive la France! | |
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