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Old 11-09-11, 10:33 PM   #71
steve_the_slim
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Oh and by the way, the Omaha is ready, just need to test her a little bit more before uploading.
This gives me a happy.

Honestly, my concern about the engagement range of the Dido isn't so much how far it can shoot but that it can so accurately hit tiny targets at that distance. I'll accept that maybe the other ships I've played lacked their prototypical range, seeing as I don't really know all that much about WWII naval combat. But I still doubt that any ship could hit a target as small as a gunboat with its first salvo at nine miles away. Everything I've read seemed to indicate that it generally took a while for gunners to get the range on a target and that they depended on the splashes from misses to zero in. I'm pretty sure that if the Japanese fleet could have matched the accuracy of this Dido, Taffy 3 would have been on the bottom in a matter of seconds.
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