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No, last time I played was just before the update. I remember hearing it was coming and decided to shelve it until it came out. Now that it has I'll have to add that to the ever growing list of games I should play soon.

Had to take a hiatus due to work and being rather sick.

Jumping back in with some multiplayer with some pals. Mostly Space Marine 2 and Helldivers 2. Both are fun with teams.

Also picked up Rogue Trader since it was on sale. In the middle of Chapter 2 and I quite like it so far. Lots of character customization, choices, though it being grimdark much of if it various shades of terrible. Does a good job of putting you in the setting. The graphics are quite outdated though. It's a fine party based RPG, but since you're a rouge trader there's some colony management and space combat thrown in.

I gotta get back to Uboat and try to finish out the war one of these days as well.

That whole museum was great. I showed up when they opened and they had to drag me out because I was still looking at everything.

Big George Foreman. Mostly well done, but since it covers his whole life they kinda skip through at a brisk pace. I knew he was a boxer in his 40s, what I didn't know is he stopped for a decade or so and then started again. They put him at the bottom and he clawed his way back to the top.

And now the 26th installment of our five part series!

I had a good teacher, that Stihl 025 is about 30 years old... was my fathers.

Future Plans: As I wait for the Stable version of the game to update, I came up with a plan for the AH-6J. Given that back then they had Hellfires on the bird I'm looking to make the system a pylon system. Personally, I think I can get away with a normal rocket pod, and not have to make every tube for it. I asked around and one person on Discord replied, but none of the experts, so when I can pack the files and not cause a crash due to formatting I'll look into it. If I can do it then I'll go with that, but not looking to make the pylons universal (unless there's a desire to) so it uses BIS weapons. I want to actually limit the weaponry for once, and that's the best way to do it, once I get the rockets configged and model setup so it can work with the game. I'm looking to limit it to Hellfires and rockets. While the MELB featured removable miniguns, I see no reason to do that either, so it'll be just Hellfires and the rocket pods. The minis will stay there as they are now, and be done with it. I'm not looking to expand it and not looking to make an M version, because you can't beat the MELB anyway, so there's that. Other plans isn't really much, given that there's not much to do as of yet. I am thinking of allowing the gun pod from the BIS Buzzard on the AH-96, but that's again on hold until things are good with the Tools (I use the Dev version) and the new patched Stable game. I only do it this way because the Dev Tools work fine and I like the latest updates. I keep the Stable version of the game in case I actually go on a server and play. Otherwise, I'd use the Dev version of the game, and have one, but I prefer Stable. Anyway, that's my musings for now. Of course anything I may have missed let me know and I'll see if I can't do it.

Again, just some really nice work.


Wheels

Really, really nice.


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Wheels

More amazing work.


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Good to hear from you again Dart., Hope this go around with the doctors is successful.


Wheels

What Dart said.


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Thank you.


Wheels

Been so long since I watched any baseball, or any professional sports for that matter, I did not even realize it was that time of year again.
Of the teams listed I would not mind hearing that the Tigers or the Indians went all the way and won the series.


Wheels

Wow, yeah Wheels, good info, thanks!

Nicely done Leaf, that's a long haul on one tank of gas.

I'm happy to see the IX coming too. But more so because it means things are going well, and the devs are thinking of adding to the sim. The boat itself doesn't excite me much. Matter of fact I think that with Milk Cow support, the VII is the better option, at least in dead is dead careers. Type IX is a death trap.

But I also suspect we will see new campaigns come with it, Indian Ocean and Penang, that sort of thing, and a Type IX (or U-cruiser) is going to be well suited to these operations. I wouldn't want to be doing convoy work in the North Atlantic in a IX for long I don't think.

Speaking of Type IX, I just finished reading the book Steel Boat, Iron hearts by a crewman aboard U-505 (which was captured and now is a museum attraction in Chicago). Good read this, and interesting especially for the second skipper Peter Zschech, who was a troubled man, and ended up shooting himself during a depth charge attack. A worthy addition to the library.

A well reasoned post. The issue here for me is he is the commander, and excusing his actions because he was not informed is damning testimony in itself. The fact is he didn't confirm where Kurita was, made assumptions, and ran off to the north chasing the decoy force, as the Japanese wanted him to do. I do not allow the separation of Halsey from his staff, they must be considered one in the same. If he was 'misled' or 'misinformed' it is his responsibility alone. He made a series of errors here, all of which stacked up to arrive at the result. He failed to talk to Seventh Fleet, failed to provide requested AP ammo to that formation prior to the night battle, allowed ambiguous communication to occur (task force 34 will be formed, heading north with three groups, etc) and ultimately made the wrong decision and fell in to the trap.There is some evidence that he had some sort of mental breakdown after receiving the "The World Wonders" message. In the event no one outside of Third Fleet actually knew what Halsey was doing, and this communication failure is Halsey's.

Halsey should have also been embarked on a carrier. I've often wondered if he took the battleships north because he was on one, and didn't want to miss the show, and the glory it would bring him, and not be left guarding the strait for no purpose. I disagree with any argument that dividing his fleet would be a mistake. This is often true, a commander should concentrate his strength in the Mahanian tradition, but Third Fleet was the largest ever put to sea. To detach a carrier or two to cover TF34 would not have caused undue danger in my view. As a matter of fact this is exactly what I think should have been done, and if it had been, then I think he wins a resounding victory, defeating Kurita and Ozawa in turn. He chose the worst option of the three he had. Sure, this is easier to see in hindsight, but he had the opportunity to clarify the situation, had the opportunity to play it both ways, but chose not to. I think Lee had it right and should have been listened to.

The Department of Dirty Tricks did Halsey no favors, and I understand where you are coming from when defending him, but it's always true that subordinates are just an arm of the commander, and their mistakes are his mistakes. He allowed it.

I often see arguments that no one could know that Ozawa was not full strength. But it should have been obvious at the moment that those carriers were found to be far away from the striking elements already discovered. At this point the only real conclusion is decoy force, for if Ozawa was at full strength with his air wings then why, it had to asked, where they not with Kurita? Halsey's conduct at Leyte was a string of errors, assumptions and bad judgement in my view and I know others disagree, see it all differently and hold Halsey's performance in higher regard. Personally I think he fouled up big time. Just my opinion. His arrival was exactly the tonic the US Navy needed in 1942, but by 1944 the war was passing him by, and culminated in his poor performance at Leyte Gulf.

What should have been done, in my view, is to detach Lee and TF34 and two carriers to provide an umbrella, which is a necessary precaution, but even then, it probably wasn't strictly necessary given how few Japanese planes had been encountered in the past two days. But a good commander does not attempt to divine intention, but considers capability. Japan had not no aircraft remaining, so their possible appearance has to be accounted for and the air cover allowed for, until at least Kurita was confirmed as retiring.

Halsey should have been more clear in his communication (the fact that he is not personally composing these messages doesn't matter in my view as it is his command). The worst of all were the two messages he sent announcing his intentions

-- Task Force 34 will be formed. The error here lies in the odd way that navy men speak. For example, a commander might say something like all regulations will be observed. In civilian speak, this seems to say it will happen in the future, right? But this is intended to mean, right now, as of now, from this point forward. By saying Task Force 34 will be formed, it was assumed, that ,well it will be. But that is not what happened.

-- Proceeding north with three groups. Far too ambiguous and I suspect intentionally so. Why not say all groups? By using 'three' it leaves the impression that there must be more than that, no? Like the addition of a fourth, Task Force 34.That's what every other commander thought, from Nimitz to the Taffy 3 skippers to Seventh Fleet. Why word it like this? Probably the biggest domino in the chain right here.

In the morning the first scout planes found Ozawa not close at hand, but 180 miles away. he had turned around during the night and ran north. But Halsey chased with his 'three groups', and did seal that deal, but the battleships never fired a shot, and had burned all that fuel oil to no effect, and should have been at the strait where they would have been decisive. Could Halsey have sent TF34 back south after realizing Ozawa was retreating, thereby saving himself from his own error? Regardless, he did not and the rest is history.

Halsey's commanders have their own share of the blame, and it centers around the proviso in the operations order that should the Japanese fleet be discovered its destruction becomes the primary task. This led to all of the rest. But a primary task is not the same as a solitary task. Halsey still had the responsibility to cover the landings. He however saw it differently, and this was a massive mistake in my view. His dismissal of this responsibility by saying Seventh Fleet can protect themselves was a first order error and Taffy 3 paid the price. A string of errors, and not Halsey's alone. But he was the commander on the spot and he got it wrong,.

Neat. This is not included in BMS version patches?

Thank you! I'm now the same age that Napoleon and Shakespeare were when they died!

It just goes to show that when you are reliant on the web for your content you are at the mercy of changing copyright issues and other legal changes. Something that you can watch/listen to today may not be there anymore the next day.