Thanks Hunterbear I will remember that.
I hope you are right remilton. I will try as you suggest after banging my head on the wall for a while. Lol thanks to Admiral Rubini's HT mod there is a handy little Type 34 DD sitting just outside my pen at St Nazaire.
I have just completed testing "save as" 32, 24, and 16, with "RLE" both on and off... six tests... each time taking clean/stock NDD_Type34_shp tga and hand re-drawing pointy ship shape (lol... for lack of better description)
Arrrrgh! I'm thinking about offering a pint of my blood to the graphics gods.
Here I go again. I'll be on duty for 24 hours again tomorrow... may have to come back to it Sunday.