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Post by cowboy40 on May 4, 2020 12:07:25 GMT -7
Still one of my favorite computer games, even though it is a blast from the distant past in the terms of computer games...  A us navy surface action group of the coast northwest Afica |
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Post by rabid on May 28, 2020 20:36:54 GMT -7
Love the OHP class ship. That's the one LM2500 platform I never got to set foot on.
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Post by cowboy40 on May 30, 2020 21:26:46 GMT -7
Love the OHP class ship. That's the one LM2500 platform I never got to set foot on. I like the Sprucans, it is a sham that they were retired from service, they were one of the best ASW platforms ever designed |
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Post by rabid on May 30, 2020 21:41:24 GMT -7
I was ona Bunker hill, the USS lake Champlain. I always wanted to serve on a smaller boat like the OHP or Pegasus hydrofoil. You have to have a cast iron gut though.
Sprucan has basically the same engineering plant that the Bunker hill did, so much that they had the same qualification. We had to go back to school to get on the Pegasus.
Ticonderoga/bunker hill and Spruance are similar from the deck ventrally. But the funny thing is that the Aegis cruiser's forward superstructure is so much heavier it was tipping the design weight scales.
All of them suffer from compartment cracking and splitting just aft of the forward structure and in talking to my buddies back then they all manifest differently per ship.
My friends Ship (Shiloh) had warping in the port VLS passageway so that people would get stuck in there when the door warped due to extreme rolls underway. Mine would crack the port forward fuel ballast tank and we had to get in and weld the fucker in every cool port.
Anyway I digress. Have you been able to play this on a modern computer?
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Post by starcruiser on May 31, 2020 8:40:48 GMT -7
Yeah - the Spruance and Kidd were fairly large ships - similar in size to an old "straw bottom" (aka Treaty) Cruiser prior to WW2. Both had good stability and were quite capable ships.
The Tico's definitely pushed the limits of what that hull could handle - too much top-hamper in that massive superstructure. In some ways, the "Stealthy" design of the Arleigh Burkes helps since they slope the structure back to redirect radar returns away from the likely source. This helps to cut back the top-hamper and make them more stable...
I've never had a copy of this game, though I did play Harpoon quite a lot back in the day...
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Post by cowboy40 on May 31, 2020 19:03:35 GMT -7
I was ona Bunker hill, the USS lake Champlain. I always wanted to serve on a smaller boat like the OHP or Pegasus hydrofoil. You have to have a cast iron gut though. Sprucan has basically the same engineering plant that the Bunker hill did, so much that they had the same qualification. We had to go back to school to get on the Pegasus. Ticonderoga/bunker hill and Spruance are similar from the deck ventrally. But the funny thing is that the Aegis cruiser's forward superstructure is so much heavier it was tipping the design weight scales. All of them suffer from compartment cracking and splitting just aft of the forward structure and in talking to my buddies back then they all manifest differently per ship. My friends Ship (Shiloh) had warping in the port VLS passageway so that people would get stuck in there when the door warped due to extreme rolls underway. Mine would crack the port forward fuel ballast tank and we had to get in and weld the fucker in every cool port. Anyway I digress. Have you been able to play this on a modern computer? Yes oh, you can still get it on Steam and it works fine I have it or playing on four different Windows 10 computers |
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