posted 03-14- 01:19 PM               

It needs a real TOC, but I think it's pretty OK as-is. If you have any thoughts or additions, please drop me a note.

posted 03-15- 09:15 AM               

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Originally posted by Aui:
The only thing I remember right now that isn't yet covered in your list and to my knowledge isn't either in the game engine already is gyroscopic precession effects.

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Yeah, you'll note that it kinda trails off at the end. I was hoping to flesh out the entire physics side of things a LOT more, but we're in the middle of a product release so I have basically zero time.

I'm on a plane to London on Tuesday, maybe I'll get some time to hack at it then.

posted 03-15- 09:19 AM               

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Originally posted by Vahnatai:
user controlled bombs eh? i like that idea..

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Yeah, the US tried it too with the GB and AZON/RAZON series. The later did very well, dropped a number of bridges and such in Europe and SEA.

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u know the germans tried radio controlled rockets...but with little success...it left the pilot too vulnerable to being shot down as he controlled the projectile

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Yup, but nevertheless they did VERY well. The Germans were very proud of the radio system on it, which had something like 14 different channels. Before takeoff the bombadier would pick one at random, so it would be hard for the British to jam it.

At first these things were kicking the crap out of the British fleet in the Med. Several destroyers sunk, major damage to other ships, a couple of transports sunk too.

Well what the Brits did - ever clever - is send in the Commandos and steal one. Then they built a jammer with all 14 channels in it. The Germans freaked out and concluded the Brits had some sort of super-jammer, and re-designed all of their missiles on wire-guidance. These were just starting to work when they wound down the production as the war over the water was no longer an issue.