Scurvy would have been hell on earth as a sub skipper meeting with Admiral Lockwood complaining about the inaccurate ONI manuals. This is one confrontation I think the Admiral might have lost.
But then, being the iconoclast he was, Admiral Lockwood would be the first in line to take the complaints up the ladder and let the chips fall where they may. The only problem in RL was that there was no way to take the Hiryu out to a smooth spot, shut down its engines, pace off a precise distance and see how far the ONI manual was from reality. No American could sneak aboard with a tape measure and actually find the real height either.
The numbers we had were the numbers we had. There was no way to even know that they were wrong except by missing the shot. The sub captains were pretty sarcastic about the accuracy of their ID manuals, but realized that they could get no better.
My position is that if we are going to call this a simulation, we also have to simulate error. I'm assuming the devs used ONI numbers and didn't just err on their own.
But the results are the same: accurately simulating the frustration of real US sub skippers. Job well done, I say!:rotfl:
That doesn't mean I won't snap up any mod CapnScurvy makes and try it out. But I'd rather get some numbers from tater and plug them in instead to experience the same consequences as the real captains.
Darn! I feel another Admiral Lockwood post struggling to be born. DANGER!!!!!!