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tfbncc wrote: Thu Jun 16, 2022 3:04 am I was going to make some comments on the exorbitant amount of damage that each fleet took, with expert witness testimony, multiple examples of actual surface warfare actions, and the 47 glossy photographs with the circles and the arrows and a paragraph on the back of each one explaining what the picture was.
Alice’s Restaurant :lol:
Then I thought it over again and decided that this is your story. Your description of the battle lends itself to the drama of the story just fine. So I decided to just sit back and keep my mouth shut. Carry on.

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Thank you. I still wonder if I went too far, though. I don’t want this turning into war porn. I was trying to present an image of an outnumbered but competent and aggressive force against a larger but less competently led force.
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And now the Texans are left with mainly just their aircraft carrier force with which to continue the war against France....
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Netpackrat wrote: Thu Jun 16, 2022 9:56 am And now the Texans are left with mainly just their aircraft carrier force with which to continue the war against France....
Hmmm.... Why does that sound familiar?
...even before I read MHI, my response to seeing a poster for the stars of the latest Twilight movies was "I see 2 targets and a collaborator".
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randy wrote: Thu Jun 16, 2022 3:21 pm
Netpackrat wrote: Thu Jun 16, 2022 9:56 am And now the Texans are left with mainly just their aircraft carrier force with which to continue the war against France....
Hmmm.... Why does that sound familiar?
History doesn’t repeat itself, but it rhymes? :twisted: (Walks away, whistling innocently...)

Oh, and I’ve reversed what happened to Dunkerque and Strasbourg after remembering that Strasbourg had much heavier belt armor than Dunkerque did. This also gets rid of the very irritating Admiral Gensoul. :twisted:
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New snippet - Word of the battle is getting around... (Note: this takes place three days after the battle)

Removed due to upcoming publication of Book 2. See my post on 09/07/2022 for more info.
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Another snippet - This takes place the day after the previous snippet. The OPN’s goal is within reach...

Removed due to upcoming publication of Book 2. See my post on 09/07/2022 for more info.
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Nothing good shall come of this, I fear.

So in all this confusion, nobody noticed just how convenient this whole situation seems? Perhaps seeing this from the outside as the author intended gives a wider perspective. Well done.
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Le fait enablement (probably butchered the French, but you take my meaning).
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Another short snippet, and a question for the bubbleheads (or bubblehead-adjacent) here. Do the specs on this seem reasonable for the time? I’ve looked at the Wikipedia data for a lot of similar-sized subs from the ‘30s, and it seems OK to me, allowing for Texas being an early adopter of welding and biasing for underwater performance.

Removed due to upcoming publication of Book 2. See my post on 09/07/2022 for more info.
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Not a bubble head, but IIRC even in those days US subs had antenna masts they could put up out of the water to send traffic from periscope depth. So, assuming they had such a mast, they would not have to wait to surface to send their messages, and a SPOT report such as this would be important enough, I think, to do so.

[Radio Geek] The vertical antenna mast might not be efficient enough to get back to TX depending on time of day and propagation for the frequency band they are using. Then the longer horizontal antennas often used by subs of day (running from the conning tower to the bow and stern of the sub) might be needed. Use of the horizontal antennas might require a course change to bring the sub (thus the antenna) broadside to the intended receiving station.[/Radio Geek]
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