Captain of USS Drum tangled with a drunk Hemingway in a Key West bar.

[propbeanie]

I have that also. I have Fluckey's book also, and enjoy them all, but what I like about O'Kane's book is the examples of some the procedures described, as well as the orders wording, which are in some of the Objectives for FotRSU, and the differences between Fremantle, Brisbane and Pearl in that regard - and then how some of the Fremantle people ended up at Pearl, and they went back to the "Sunshine" method, where there are some tongue-in-cheek orders, and Ultra alerts that add that little "extra" to the "simulation". Now to just add a rocket rack on a Gato for a Lucky Fluckey shore bombardment... - it's going to be expensive to acquire said weapon though, and it will be of minimal impact to the enemy installations, its being rather inaccurate...

[Bubblehead1980]

Originally Posted by propbeanie

I have that also. I have Fluckey's book also, and enjoy them all, but what I like about O'Kane's book is the examples of some the procedures described, as well as the orders wording, which are in some of the Objectives for FotRSU, and the differences between Fremantle, Brisbane and Pearl in that regard - and then how some of the Fremantle people ended up at Pearl, and they went back to the "Sunshine" method, where there are some tongue-in-cheek orders, and Ultra alerts that add that little "extra" to the "simulation". Now to just add a rocket rack on a Gato for a Lucky Fluckey shore bombardment... - it's going to be expensive to acquire said weapon though, and it will be of minimal impact to the enemy installations, its being rather inaccurate...

Agree, he did cover procedures etc well. lol I look forward to the rocket launcher on a Gato for shore bombardment. Surprised no one has done it yet and of course should not be that accurate. One thing I have been wanting to incorporate into TMO is bombardment missions with deck gun. Since shipping aside from fishing boats sampans, smaller craft becomes rare, want 1945 to have a lot more different missions. The silly agent insertion and tokyo bay photo missions will be deleted, a lot of lifeguard patrols, picket sweeps, bombardments will fill last few month of war. Of course still limited traffic along shore lines in home islands and SOJ of course, Operation Barney will be included.

[KaleunMarco]

Originally Posted by Bubblehead1980

Agree, he did cover procedures etc well. lol I look forward to the rocket launcher on a Gato for shore bombardment. Surprised no one has done it yet and of course should not be that accurate. One thing I have been wanting to incorporate into TMO is bombardment missions with deck gun. Since shipping aside from fishing boats sampans, smaller craft becomes rare, want 1945 to have a lot more different missions. The silly agent insertion and tokyo bay photo missions will be deleted, a lot of lifeguard patrols, picket sweeps, bombardments will fill last few month of war. Of course still limited traffic along shore lines in home islands and SOJ of course, Operation Barney will be included.

do you realize that you cannot cause damage to shore buildings?
drive your boat into a harbor and shoot at the cranes and buildings. you will see explosions but nothing will burn or be destroyed.

[Bubblehead1980]

Originally Posted by KaleunMarco

do you realize that you cannot cause damage to shore buildings?
drive your boat into a harbor and shoot at the cranes and buildings. you will see explosions but nothing will burn or be destroyed.

Yes, but I recall a member(Traveler) once created it so could bombard , damage, destroy buildings in his mod. Plan to look it over soon.

[1Patriotofmany]

Originally Posted by KaleunMarco

do you realize that you cannot cause damage to shore buildings?
drive your boat into a harbor and shoot at the cranes and buildings. you will see explosions but nothing will burn or be destroyed.

Yeah that's one detraction from the sim. I tried pumping rounds into a tank farm at one of the enemies ports, I was hoping Fotrsu would enable that ability.