Yet Another Secret Project

[Case]

I'm really going to have to find a copy of MGE...

[Case]

BTW, here's some WW1 style ships that The ANZAC made me but I didn't end up using in the Cruel Sea.

[The ANZAC]

Case: thanks for free publicity for my units, though the USS Oklahoma is only Nemo's

Scott: those ships look great! I especially like the destoyers. As a matter of fact I was having trouble designing the WWI style destroyers and the main mast for the Royal Sovereign class. The way you drew these units might give me help in fixing the Royal Sovereign still.

[The ANZAC]

Scott: Have you made any other scenarios? I remember awhile ago you put 'Victoria' up for playtest. When can we expect this Turtledove scenario to be ready for disitribution?

[The ANZAC]

Finally I think I have made THE definitive Royal Sovereign class (case if you want to use it or anyone else for that matter, feel free) I always seem to have problems drawing the pole mast type on early battleships. Also does anyone have know how to draw the cage style mast of early US battleships like the Maryland, Arkansas, and New York? Thanks.

[Jimmywax]

Bravo gentlemen, Bravo !!!

Scott: I was wondering if you were going to include the Bayern. I was also wondering if you were going to include the (spelling? ) Bluetcher.

[Jimmywax]

I see what you mean by the sides being sloped too much. I will see what I can do. Also, do you have any suggestions for the tracks?

[Scott F]

I liked the first Royal Sovereign better. I don't like how Nemo did the guns on the Oklahoma, so I used the turrets from the South Dakota and modified them. I think it gives a better overall effect. After playing The Cruel Sea for a while, I messed around and made an alternate Bismark and an alternate Sharnhorst. When I get back to my computer later this week I'll post them.

The Bayern will likely appear as the dreadnought unit, sans the Imperial German War Ensign shield (which I drew in just for the heck of it). I have no plans for the moment of including battlecruisers (or unusually large armored cruisers, which is what Blücher was, if memory serves) in the scenario. I simply don't have enough unit slots or I would. I'll do good to get the Polish Infantry, Quebecois Infantry, and Russian revolutionaries to fit.

I gave up on the Victoria scenario because I couldn't get it to work quite the way that I wanted it to. I may yet work some more on it after this is over, before I move on to secret project #2, the Reemergence of the Vanquished. At the moment though, I am preoccupied with college stuff. With luck I will have time to finish up on the Turtledove one later this week (going to do events and rules files for each nation save the neutrals and Russia). Walt Disney once said something about how when he finished a movie, it was done forever and he couldn't change it, but with Disneyland he could keep tweaking with it and changing things for as long as he wanted. I'm sort of that way with scenarios. Every time I playtest it myself I change something.

On the matter of A7V tracks, I suggest that you check how Nemo did his wonderful Mark IV (which someone posted earlier in this thread, I think).

[Jimmywax]

I didn't know if you were still looking for airplanes or not, but here are three that I found and two that I made.

I am not quite happy with the red baron yet though, the wing looks crooked.

[Scott F]

Yeah, I am still looking for airplanes. I don't know what kinds exactly though. I have no sources on specific WWI aircraft.

About the only ones I know of have been gleamed from the Turtledove books...

Curtiss Super Hudson pusher biplane
Avro 504 biplane
Wright 17 biplane
Fokker monoplane
Sopwith Pup biplane
German Albatross biplane

[Scott F]

This thread is turning into a giant ship-posting fest, I think.

Here is my version of DKM Bismarck...

[Scott F]

DKM Gneisenau (before the angled funnel cap was installed)...

[Scott F]

DKM Scharnhorst (with angled funnel cap)...

[Scott F]

HMS Revenge...

[Scott F]

HMS Warspite (ready to duel with the Bayern )...