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Re: GURPS Vehicles: Steampunk Conveyances
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08-17-2017, 05:20 PM | #82 | |
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Also. At Coronel, Nov. 1914, Kit Cradock's armored (armoured?) cruisers failed to score a single hit, while Graf von Spee's Far East Squadron shot the British ships into sinking hulks. While the Germans, at first, had superior shooting conditions (the RN ships were silhouetted vs. the afterglow of sunset) after an hour the skies darkened and conditions were equal. Despite rough seas the extraordinarily skilled German gunners continued to hit at far higher rates than the "just-out-of-training" or "no recent training reserve" crews of the RN armored cruisers. [According to Massie's "Castles of Steel," via Wikipedia.org, Scharnhorst's gunners scored 35 hits out of 422 shots, a rate of roughly 8 percent -- very good under the conditions.] I believe that HMS Glasgow, a modern light cruiser with a regular crew, did score some hits. |
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08-18-2017, 01:35 PM | #83 |
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Re: GURPS Vehicles: Steampunk Conveyances
Of course, the dye packets where invented by the British around 1930. possibly because of mistakes like that. Doubly emphasizing how rapidly things where changing in that field.
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