Yet Another Secret Project

[Jimmywax]

I don't think I am going to get banned. I was just in an apologetic mood yesterday and jumped to conclusions. I just got off topic and Mark G closed the thread.

My original question still stands though. Does anyone know of any links that list which boats took part in the Korean war. The only one I can find info on is the Missouri. I also need to find a site that lists other countries contributions to the U.N. force.

[Case]

Originally posted by Jimmywax
Does anyone know of any links that list which boats took part in the Korean war. The only one I can find info on is the Missouri. I also need to find a site that lists other countries contributions to the U.N. force.

This site lists all the carriers the USN sent: http://www.history.navy.mil/branches/koreaob.htm
And this one all the ships eligible for Korean Service medals (which I guess means all the USN ships which served off Korea): http://www.history.navy.mil/medals/kormedal/korea-a.htm

And google has a very large collection of links here: http://directory.google.com/Top/Soci...ts/Korean_War/

Australia contributed the Aircraft Carrier 'HMAS Sydney', which flew numerous airstrikes, and large numbers of destroyers. From memory Britain also sent out several carriers.


BTW Jimmy, I suggest that you start a new thread for this before Warvoid and MarkG come and yell at you again!
(unless you want to be :banned: )

[Jimmywax]

Thanks, I went to that first site the other night. I must have missed that link though.

I don't suppose that you had a picture of that fine aussie boat do you.

[Case]

More threadjacking

Jimmy, here you go:

To quote from the website of the current holder of the RAN's proudest name:

"The third HMAS SYDNEY was laid down at Devonport England, as the Majestic class light aircraft carrier HMS TERRIBLE in 1943. She was commissioned in December, 1948. She was equipped with Hawker Sea Fury fighter and Fairey Firefly attack aircraft.

In 1951 and 1952 HMAS SYDNEY 3 operated with the United Nations forces in Korean waters. She participated in many actions and created a light fleet carrier record when she achieved 89 aircraft sorties in one day.

The ship continued in service as a carrier until 1955 when her newer sister ship, HMAS MELBOURNE, took over the RAN's aircraft carrier role. SYDNEY then served as a training ship until she was decommissioned in 1958. However, in 1962 she was reactivated and converted to a fast troop transport until her eventual retirement in 1973. During the period SYDNEY was the training ship for many new members of the RAN and from 1965 she was heavily committed to the support of the Australian Task Force in Vietnam. Altogether she made 24 troop transport visits to Vietnam, which earned her the nickname "Vung Tau Ferry"

(I now urge you to create a new thread, or risk keel-hauling for treadjacking )

[Scott F]

http://warships1.com/AUSTcvl01_Sydney.htm

http://warships1.com/BRcvl08_Majestic.htm

http://warships1.com/BRcvl08_Bonaventure_prtfrt.jpg

[Jimmywax]

Thanks guys, I believe my thread jacking days are over, FOR NOW. Muh-wah ha ha ha !

[H Tower]

*bump*

*bump* what ever happened to the scenario? i know i'm supposed to be play testing but i lost the cd.

[Case]

Re: *bump*

Originally posted by H Tower
*bump* what ever happened to the scenario?

I was just about to ask that as well

BTW, are the books the scenario is based on worth reading? I read Turtledove's WW2 series and found them stupid but strangely enjoyable.

[Jimmywax]

Yes they are definatly worth reading. Turtledove is an excellent Alt-history writer and should stay away from the other stuff.

[Scott F]

I'm still messing with it. I'm trying to figure out how best to add thngs like local collaboration (seen mostly in Poland and Quebec). I'm running pretty low on event space, so adding them is proving to be a real problem.

I haven't read Turtledove's books aside from the Great War series, but skimmed the summaries on their covers and found the various premises rather lacking. Aliens invading during World War 2? Southern rednecks going back in time to give Lee plans to build AK-47 assault rifles? Give me a break.

Anyhoo, I am stalling on the collaboration thing because I am not really certain how to deal with it. Most of the playability issues seem to be resolved, at least from the standpoint of the multiplayer version (which, sadly, no one seems to want to play in multiplayer for a final test). Once I get the collaboration thing fixed and can find people to multiplayer test it, I can do the individual versions for the five main players (Germany, USA, CSA, France, and Britain -- Russia not really being playable at all).

[master on high]

I'll help with Multiplayer testing. I know what a pain that can be.

[Jimmywax]

*BUMP*

*BUMP* for my own purposes

[Scott F]

I am waiting to see how these play by email games work. Might be able to arrange a multiplayer game easier with that.

[Hobbes]

I wanna play it NOW! waaaa!

[Scott F]

Worry not. Your days of agony and waiting with baited breath are over.

I have figured out to do collaboration, albeit simplistic. I've also made a few other minor changes to prevent it from being so easy for people to just kill enemy units in huge stacks, particularly on the western front in Europe. I haven't tested this last part in a full game yet, but it should make things quite interesting.

I would like a few people to playtest it for me and see how it does now. With luck, I won't have to make any further major changes, and can then go on to make the variants for each player nation soon, after a multiplayer game of this has been attempted by someone, somewhere.

*waits for TSFE PBEM to get to around to him so as to figure out how to play a play-by-email game*

The main game files can be downloaded from here (it's for MGE and is about 800 kb in size):

http://php.indiana.edu/~sfluhr/turtledove_v12.zip

The sounds can be downloaded here (about 2.5 mb):

http://php.indiana.edu/~sfluhr/turtledovesounds.zip

Please send comments, rants, raves, and so on either to me on ICQ at 25802937 or via email at sfluhr@indiana.edu