Armchair Dragoons Forums

News:

  • The ACDC returns in 2025!  17-19 January 2025 we'll gather online for a variety of games and chats all weekend long
  • The 2024 Armchair Dragoons Fall Assembly will be held 11-13 October 2024 at The Gamer's Armory in Cary, NC (outside of Raleigh)

News

The ACDC returns in 2025!  17-19 January 2025 we'll gather online for a variety of games and chats all weekend long

Author Topic: Ships!  (Read 525759 times)

besilarius

  • Corporal
  • **
  • Posts: 1697
Reply #1575 on: August 05, 2024, 10:44:01 AM

"These things must be done delicately-- or you hurt the spell."  - The Wicked Witch of the West.
"We've got the torpedo damage temporarily shored up, the fires out and soon will have the ship back on an even keel. But I would suggest, sir, that if you have to take any more torpedoes, you take 'em on the starboard side."   Pops Healy, DCA USS Lexington.


besilarius

  • Corporal
  • **
  • Posts: 1697
Reply #1576 on: August 06, 2024, 12:22:47 PM
https://www.strategypage.com/bookreviews/2611

Maritime strategy in France of Louis XIV.

"These things must be done delicately-- or you hurt the spell."  - The Wicked Witch of the West.
"We've got the torpedo damage temporarily shored up, the fires out and soon will have the ship back on an even keel. But I would suggest, sir, that if you have to take any more torpedoes, you take 'em on the starboard side."   Pops Healy, DCA USS Lexington.


besilarius

  • Corporal
  • **
  • Posts: 1697
Reply #1577 on: September 22, 2024, 04:07:05 PM
https://ukdefencejournal.org.uk/russian-aircraft-carrier-crew-sent-to-frontline-in-ukraine/

Well, this puts paid to Russia having a blue water navy for about twenty years.

"These things must be done delicately-- or you hurt the spell."  - The Wicked Witch of the West.
"We've got the torpedo damage temporarily shored up, the fires out and soon will have the ship back on an even keel. But I would suggest, sir, that if you have to take any more torpedoes, you take 'em on the starboard side."   Pops Healy, DCA USS Lexington.


bayonetbrant

  • Arrogance Mitigator & Event "Organizer"
  • Administrator
  • Staff Sergeant
  • *
  • Posts: 16179
  • Going mad, but at least going somewhere
    • Six Degrees of Radio
Reply #1578 on: September 22, 2024, 10:33:20 PM
You keep reading that article thinking it can't get any worse, and somehow it still does

=+=+=+=+=+=+=+=+=+=+=+=+=+=++

Random acts of genius and other inspirations of applied violence.
-~-~-~-~-~-~-~-~
Six Degrees of Radio for songs you should know by artists you should love


besilarius

  • Corporal
  • **
  • Posts: 1697
Reply #1579 on: September 26, 2024, 03:48:05 PM
Don't you hate it when this happens?

"These things must be done delicately-- or you hurt the spell."  - The Wicked Witch of the West.
"We've got the torpedo damage temporarily shored up, the fires out and soon will have the ship back on an even keel. But I would suggest, sir, that if you have to take any more torpedoes, you take 'em on the starboard side."   Pops Healy, DCA USS Lexington.


bayonetbrant

  • Arrogance Mitigator & Event "Organizer"
  • Administrator
  • Staff Sergeant
  • *
  • Posts: 16179
  • Going mad, but at least going somewhere
    • Six Degrees of Radio
Reply #1580 on: September 26, 2024, 05:50:30 PM
oy

=+=+=+=+=+=+=+=+=+=+=+=+=+=++

Random acts of genius and other inspirations of applied violence.
-~-~-~-~-~-~-~-~
Six Degrees of Radio for songs you should know by artists you should love


bob48

  • Smeghead.
  • Warrant Officer
  • Lead Sergeant
  • *
  • Posts: 12342
Reply #1581 on: September 26, 2024, 06:11:53 PM
Insurance claim!

“O Lord God, let me not be disgraced in my old days.”

'We few, we happy few, we band of brothers'