GURPS Vehicles: Steampunk Conveyances

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Originally Posted by fredtheobviouspseudonym

IIRC HMS Tiger at Jutland ranged on another warship's splashes. So while the ship's complement was thinking they were shooting wonderfully, Tiger's shells were actually hitting some 2,000 yards over . . .

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.