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(Quote) Very much so! The 1940s were the 1940s! You could go against that tide, but it was never easy.
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(Quote) Yes, and yes. Absolutely! PCs always want the best equipment and assurances that everything will work properly. I don't always do either.
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I know I am on the leading edge of the bell curve - there can never be too many details for me - so I needed to ask this.
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Harry Gilmore's romances were rather better written! Hinman's romance was the least believable thing in the book...
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(Quote) ;)
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(Quote) Huh! That very well may be!
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(Quote) Yes, absolutely! My parents told me about war bonds when I was a kid and I was astonished that such a thing existed! Why didn't they sell war bonds for Vietnam? Then those who supported the war could put their money where their mouth was. Wh…
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(Quote) :o
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(Quote) I was expecting the same thing, and was very surprised.
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(Quote) I always forget that I HAVE THE POWER MWAHAHAHAHA! ... I also forget how to use that power... Seniors! Can't live with 'em, can't... why CAN'T we just put them on ice floes and push them off?
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(Quote) Interesting point! I am familiar with Reeman/Kent's works, and you are correct that you can get a composite view of the war from many different viewpoints with his Reeman stories.
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Yes - there was the same distrust of the career navy for the wartime volunteers on the Trebuchet. That is a universal and eternal thing!
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(Quote) The US - not just its Navy - had a very strong rotational concept in place. Large parts of a submarine's crew and officers were transferred, especially after promotion. It was very rare for a captain to stay in command of the same boat more …
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(Quote) This reaction is really unfortunate, and something I half-expected. I am very familiar with this torpedo problem - it's a core concept in my submariners RPG thet the player characters have to deal with - and his emphasis is so angry that it …
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(Quote) I was specifically asking about the fund raising. The romance was expected and telegraphed flagrantly, and the book would work just as well without it.
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(Quote) Ah! I had forgotten about HMS Ulysses! I was a huge MacLean fan in high school, but haven't read any of his books in decades! HMS Ulysses was one of my favorites!
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@Ray Otis - I decided to put them up even though there was no category for them yet. Better to ask for forgiveness than fail to act. :D
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In my own published military games I strongly recommend this alternating action. As a GM, I also emphasize that good orders give a goal, and leave the means of accomplishing that goal to the interpretation of the lower unit level. This is how the or…
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(Quote) Agreed in full.
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As for the anti-semitism or lack thereof, it has never been a hard thing in the US like in Europe. I think the crew's attitude is consistent with that of my father's friends who were of that generation. More of a source of jokes because of their dif…
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(Quote) Yes. I was ready for Mealey to bring down the spirit of the crew because of that trope, and no such thing happened. I ended up liking Mealey in the end to my surprise!
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(Quote) The issues were as significant as portrayed, but I think Homewood hugged that line-of-too-far tightly even if he didn't quite cross it - and I am a techie, son of an engineer and a professional technical writer/illustrator. Of course he live…
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(Quote) Not only was there a high level of support in the US for neutrality, there was a shocking amount of support for Hitler.
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The questions are up! I invite anyone who has a good question not listed to post it up!
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@Apocryphal - we need a category for this book so I can put up questions!
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(Quote) This was great, Neil! Thank you! This shows the multiple layers of problems the Mark 14 had, so that each fix revealed yet another problem. Once the Mark 14s particular problems were licked, the submarine war became devastating to Japan. One…
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(Quote) As opposed to causal... I'm looking at you, Christopher Priest! ;D
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I will post my questions Monday!
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Awkward is one of those words that always looks like you spelled it wrong... The 'wkw" phoneme is particularly cluster fugly.
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(Quote) No, it's become apparent that there is no truth. If so there is no need to look. (Quote) Did he? Maybe he's not dead. Maybe someone wrote it for him. Maybe it's a temporal vortice thing. Maybe causality is only what you make of it. (Quote)…