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I am having my troubles with this still. Don't like the 2nd person, and the world building is pretty much not. I am enjoying some things - Syanite's and Damaya's storys and some of the characters, so I'm still sticking in there!
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I am porting all my Blood Games games over to the StarCluster 4 system. Blood Games II will add on some new bits and become Blood Games 4. OHMAS will become the Renaissance+ Toolkit, dropping the setting elements, which are pretty much entirely avai…
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Sorry - not trying to be coy. I am just generally shy away from anything like self promotion... typical Old Yankee trait. Print at Lulu - http://www.lulu.com/us/en/shop/clash-bowley/in-harms-way-pigboats/paperback/product-20319624.html PDF at DTRPG…
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@dr_mitch - Also minesweepers were some of the 'little ships', which were less tradition bound to begin with.
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Thanks Paul! I appreciate the outpouring of support! :)
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Ha! Yes! We have a good rapport.
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It would probably be far better than anything I could do! Neil is an excellent designer!
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(Quote) I'm sure it will get immeasurably better! :D (Quote) I know! Even Americans are writing British naval fiction! The turncoats! :D
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As the series goes on, you do find out more on the father!
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See my comment to question 1!
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Understandable - this was Harry's first patrol, and the ship was under the command of a drunk.
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In the beginning of WWII, the RN was suffering from superpower hangover, and from the fact that those who are promoted in a peacetime navy are not those who tend to do well in a wartime navy. It was thought that the ossified tradition-bound manners …
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Yes, @NeilNjae, it is available. There is a list of mission types, but it is shorter than what I gave above. My reasoning? Wondering whether it was too much, concern for stepping on the toes of GMs, even moar and betterer complexity even... some com…
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Well - I think we all agree on this! :D
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Yes, @Michael_S_Miller - that is one of the Britishisms I was thinking of!
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I see what you did there, @Michael_S_Miller! :D
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Thanks, guys! :D
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Well, at least the Brits had the Davis gear, which was practical. The US used the Momsen Lung , which probably killed at least as many as it saved. The US used a similar water tower in training, though! :P
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There were standard patrols, lifeguard missions (rescuing downed aviators), recon missions (photograph things through the periscope), targeted missions (specific ambushes from codebreakers), commando raids, rescuing overrun civilians, clandestine mi…
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Well, my longest campaign was about 30 sessions - 6 months or so of weekly play, and I never felt like it was repeating, but you would need to ask one of the players. I meant I felt no different about coming up with new things, not that the games we…
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Huh! I assumed it was a card game! One with a scoring board, like cribbage.
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My Submarine game is officer centric, unlike my other military games, which have troupe style play. Thing is, the crew are respected, and are consulted, but all non-emergency decisions are by officers.
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One of the things I really like about Black is his characters. They are, well, characters. :D
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@NeilNjae - good question. The Submarine service was full of people who would not make the regular navy, both in the RN and the USN. I am not sure how much was cause and how much effect, but the sub services required out of the box thinking and indi…
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@Richard Abbot - I also read non-fiction submarine books, especially when I was researching my game, and many of the older generation of submarine fiction authors, like Ned Beach, Alexander Fullerton, and Harry Homewood, were submariners - and the g…
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That makes perfect sense, @Apocryphal!
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@Apocryphal - Is Ucker == Euchre? I did not know.
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@Michael_S_Miller - Absolutely! The internal RN conflicts are extremely interesting to me as well.
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@Apocryphal - Do you run out of things to do in a D&D game? I ran a campaign for 20 years, and this is no different. If you are creative, you never run out of things to do. As for home waters, I ran my subs out of Surabaya, Java; Perth, Australi…
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220 meters is far more than 500 feet, @Apocryphal. @Michael_S_Miller - I believe that both US and British subs in service more or less routinely exceeded their designed depths, which were rather conservative. I have always wondered if these officia…