Reply To: Hobby Weekender 10/08/18

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Good morning ~

Apologies that I’ve kind of fallen off the thread here, with the boot camp formally announced things have gotten very busy all of a sudden.

@mage – the “mini wings” at the front of the Eurofighter are “canards” – ironically coming “back into fashion.”  The very first plane built by the Wright Brothers had them, they stopped being a common design feature for a while but in the 80s started being more common on military aircraft.

Yeah, those charts just show some of the math that goes into breaking down some of the maneuverability, resilience, and firepower of the many kinds of warships in this game.  Excel functionality breaks it all down and compares, then factors in bonuses that players have earned, and tabulates all this against the scenario points of each individual ship and makes sure everything stays as balanced as possible.

Nothing you couldn’t do with a sheet of notebook paper,  but with thousands of ships of dozens of warship classes, I’ve been working on automating the process through the construction of a simple database that cuts down on the effort of this administration.

Just a different kind of hobby, is all, but still definitely wargame related.

 

Yeah, I loves me some memes – at least the ones I “create” myself. 😀

Creepy work on the banshees!

@evilstu – Thanks for the kind words on the ship drawings.  “Weight” in space, yes, I know what you mean.  Technically weightless but still MASSIVE.  Yeah, and that’s weightless until we have another battle in a gas giant atmosphere.  Then weight becomes a very, VERY big problem … 😀

@woldenspoons – Not sure if I understand the question.  “Would I be upset” is someone used magic in a WW2 game?  If it’s set up as a PPHW / Alternate history game like K47 or Dust, then no … not at all.   I played tabletop RPGs for about 15 years and the most successful campaign I managed to run was in fact about exactly this … a super-secret special intelligence bureau in British / Allied intelligence were everyone had some kind of supernatural ability, mostly mages (the system we used was White Wolf’s Mage: The Ascension).  So magic in WW2 can definitely work, so long as it’s “billed as such” up front and everyone knows about it.

@limburger – glad to hear you’ll be at the boot camp after all!  😀