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Originally Posted by DRG
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Originally Posted by Imp
Don't know how you guys find the time, the real nightmare is its rarely cut & dried normally you look at one thing & it raises other questions.
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TELL ME ABOUT IT .... 
I started out yesterday looking for "a few new photos" for naval units in WW2 and ended up going over nearly every unit and formation and finding ( a couple, not a lot ) errors that had been in there for over a decade ...... that used up half a day and brought me back 45 years to a time when WW2 naval ships were what I lived and breathed for about a year. I had forgotten what a beautiful beast the Yamato was |
Yes! Yamato, the largest battlewagon ever (over 72,000 tons loaded, 9 18-inch guns, etc). Her sister Musashi was pummeled mercilessly by carrier-based dive- and torpedo-bombers, taking 17 bombs and 19 torpedoes before sinking off northern Samar in the Philippines during the Battle of Leyte Gulf. Yamato bought it later on a suicide run towards the allied armada off Okinawa, taking up to 11 torpedoes and 6 bombs (Wiki). But you already knew that. (You've probably read Tuleja's Twilight of the Sea Gods too, about Bismarck, Tirpitz, et. al.)
What I love about MBT is that it reflects the assertion of air power on the post-modern battlefield. Skillful use of flyboys can make a huge difference. The more I learn about this game the more fascinating it becomes. Terrific.
