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Well, that does seem to be a problem with a lot of the games/simulations out there--though I have very little experience with computer games, I have literally hundreds of the paper map and cardboard counter variety. Some of these 'games' are so complex they literally take far longer to play than the...

Yeah, sorry, I'm still getting caught up with the computer age, lol...

Going to check out that link now--thanks again!

Thanks, I'll check it out!

Was the duel of the Washington and the Kirishima the first really effective use of radar-directed fire control by the US? I think it must have been... I remember reading the excellent "Japanese Destroyer Captain", in which the first devastating use of radar direction of gunnery that he per...

Tough call... One advantage the Germans might have had in this scenario that they didn't in Bismarck's final battle was that of morale--by all accounts the gloom and despair on the ship was pretty bad-- not that those boys gave up easily, but they didn't have much hope in their minds of winning, and...

That is interesting--all the data I have seen ranked the Yamato 18's and the Iowa 16's about even--but it always sounded a bit too good to be true...

Not that I doubt the amazing effectiveness of the Iowa class main battery for a second.

Thanks for the information, and the link, Bgile.

Not sure if this is the right place to post this, but does anyone know of any good computer simulations that would be good for testing the results of some of these hypothetical duels? I used to work for a wargame company when I got out of college, but the computer simulation games back then were pre...

Ach! Bad scenario, it is true! My brain isn't working so well these days, lol... I fell asleep just after I posted that and was 'here' all night, no doubt dreaming of hypothetical naval battles. A true test of respective abilities would be at longer range, and before the US started using that devast...

Not only was Hitler preoccupied with land warfare, and without a Tirpitz to direct the development of a more powerful navy, but we should also consider the radically different view of the Kaiser, who had a fascination with naval matters so strong as to have a special naval uniform designed for himse...

Not to knock the Yamato class, but what with radar-directed gunnery and the generally higher state of training, an Iowa alone--or especially an Iowa with almost any other battlewagon(s) in concert, as would have certainly been the case--would have won handily, I imagine. Look how poorly the Bismark ...

I'm using the number of large calibre hits absorbed by the German battlecruisers as my sole criteria as to my judgement on their toughness. Hell, if the Germans hadn't had such low freeboard forward on the Lutzow, or she hadn't been hit so much forward but rather more evenly, she could have survived...

Well, in spite of my all-too-easy dismissal of the battle as being as decisive as some of you feel it was...

I'm sure I would have felt differently had I been an Englishman circa 1805, lol!

Can I choose the "H" class improved Bismarck with 16" guns?

Gadzooks! That is one hell of a model! Excuse my language, but nice work...

I don't know, I'd say Seydlitz and Derfflinger were pretty thoroughly tested, even considering possible poor British shell quality. Just look at some of those battle damage photos. The one british battlecruiser that came close was the Tiger, isn't this so? I forget the number of major calibre hits, ...