i never payed much attention to the Colombian era my specialty is WW2 and a little bit of the cold war... though i do stray to the civil war occasionally and i will tell you why... the darker times in history there are more lessons to learn from them

NOW i made the pic to mock a "holiday" (if you can even call it that) that i don't really care for (the reason it is in a periscope as if i am going to torpedo it). and i even said it is Columbus day in the USA underneath it knowing full well that given the way America does their holidays that days do get mixed and are often celebrated at the wrong day.

also they never really cover Columbus in school (atleast where i went to school for high school and earlier) i expect that college may cover more on the subject IF i take the proper class

A lot of folks don't. That's cool, but it's also too bad, since that entire period of history is fascinating (most of them are). The whole interrelationship between the Spanish and the Portuguese over being the first to exploit the ocean trade routes to China (the Italians already had a monopoly on the land routes), with the English and the French a little slow to the table, is a study in national greed and the attempt to establish and usurp power, religion and politics at their finest. I've just been reading Peter Padfield's two fine series of books on naval warfare as a tool of economics. Amazing stuff.

My biggest field of study is the development of the warship from 1860 through World War One, including the whys and wherefores of armor and armament. I also delve into the sailing warship, from the ancient galleys to the heyday of sail in the 1700s. I just love the machinery.

And you did a fine job. It was funny. I merely pointed out that today isn't Columbus day.

And all I said was that you had the day wrong. :sunny:

I wouldn't count on it. Classes rarely teach you the things you want to know, let alone the things you should know. I've found over the years that the only things we can truly learn are the things we find interesting. Different people are interested in different things, and that's as it should be. Watch for a thread by me on Friday.

Haha! Those poor sailors have seen better days, I think.

A few screenshots

U-49
http://img.photobucket.com/albums/v6...areer/U-49.jpg

Repulse
http://img.photobucket.com/albums/v6...er/Repulse.jpg

Hood
http://img.photobucket.com/albums/v6...areer/Hood.jpg

The Hood and Repulse were in the same Task Force, which I was out of position to attack, so I just took pictures.

Nice shots! Better luck next time... the Royal Navy still needs to sail places.

BE MORE AGGRESSIVE!! http://www.psionguild.org/forums/ima...ies/pirate.gif

There was also the fact that I only had 1 bow and 1 stern torpedo left. I would have had to get really lucky to sink one of them.:Kaleun_Periskop:

Once came across something very similar...so I took them for a spin :03:

http://imageshack.us/a/img835/7206/s...2416500467.jpg

http://imageshack.us/a/img837/5568/s...2416583012.jpg

http://imageshack.us/a/img5/6493/sh3...2417324532.jpg

A few shots from the latest patrol.

Leaving Pen 1 at St. Nazaire
http://img.photobucket.com/albums/v6...tStNazaire.jpg

U-49 Head-on
http://img.photobucket.com/albums/v6...HeadonU-49.jpg

First Victim a M07B
Here she comes
http://img.photobucket.com/albums/v6...reer/M07B1.jpg

A Double Hit (2 T1's set slow and medium speed)
http://img.photobucket.com/albums/v6...reer/M07B2.jpg

10 minutes later, down she goes
http://img.photobucket.com/albums/v6...reer/M07B3.jpg

:salute:

screen shots of my last patrol log
 

ASN torpedo mod
 

http://i1271.photobucket.com/albums/..._18152_281.jpghttp://i1271.photobucket.com/albums/..._18159_638.jpg

is it a bird is it a plane HOLLY COW its a flying River class.
i decided to nplay with the ASN mod and well as you can see it blew a warship out of the water. it is a 1 shot 1 killer

Either you are using atomic torpedoes :o or the Brits have found a novel way to get out of the path of an inbound eel.:03:

wish i had recorded the spinning it was probably doing 1000 rotations per minute

@desertstriker
Great shot. This is something one doesn't often see.

Now, U-65 IXB on August 10 ,1940 sailing on the surface at Kapverden , grid EJ54 between those two small islands on the northen corner of the grid.

http://i50.tinypic.com/oi6v6x.jpg

beautiful