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Originally Posted by LemonA
Try using google.maps, if you have an google-email-account. Collect Lat/Long + Time at every DR-position and put it in the maps. Connect the DR-positions. Then you get the route. Save it. Make it available to the public.
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Thats a cool idea. My goal longterm is to make at least one full patrol that has a proper KTB in the real format used including all attachments. This means the main KTB with full descriptions of everything that happens along with grid references, firing reports, and track charts, maybe even a radio log since GWX adds a butt load of those and I can easily write my own and send update reports to BDU to simulate this and record them in my log. I already made some templates for typing them up in photoshop so that they appear like captured documents preserved, stamped, and microfilmed for archives by the British, and I can easily I figure scan any track charts I make too since I have a scanner.
I am a bit of a role player.
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Originally Posted by 11Bravo
@vanjast
@P_Funk
In-game + pencil/paper + simple as possible = my goal.
The biggest challenge to this will be the almanac I suspect. I am using a computer program currently for convenience. But I also went to the other extreme of solving the nautical triangle directly using only a table of logarithms, no calculator. Using presolved almanacs is the middle path, and probably historically accurate. Hopefully we can use an existing publication and not have to make a custom one from scratch. |
Well I imagine it would be pretty ridiculous to try and print out a copy of the almanac given how many possible locations and days and times over the 6 years of the war there would be. Also, there probably isn't an easy way to find a real almanac from that time period anymore in print.
I do agree that the simple and authentic pencil/paper method is most appealing. The more I have to plug something into a modern apparatus the more it detracts from the fun of it. I already use a calculator for some of my TDC calculations and I don't want to go much past that for anachronistic affectations.
I'm not only excited by your work Bravo, but also by your attitude about it. A project that appeals to me on multiple levels.
