Friday 2009-12-25 Screenshots AND Discussion Thread

[Dungeness]

I used to post on Oleg's forum in a previous life (2006?) and under a different ID, but have been away from the simming community for a long time. I'm still waiting patiently for SOW, though . Re landscape and damage modelling, one thing that was discussed quite a lot back in the day was the smoke from bombing damage, particularly the daylight bombing of Thameshaven oil depot , although the same issue would be even more apparent with the Dunkirk evacuation, if its in the campaign. The point was that in the historical reality oil fires burnt for days after a raid and large palls of smoke were apparent from many miles away. The Lufwaffe apparently used the smoke column at Thameshaven as a navigation mark for their subsequent daylight raids on East London. Similarly, the reflected 'glow' of the fires started in the London Docks at in the night Blitz was visible to German pilots from their landing fields in France. Will this scale of damage be modelled?

And I hope Oleg is watching 'Blitz Street' - everything we ever needed to know about bomb damage - quite amazing....

[KG26_Alpha]

Originally Posted by Dungeness

And I hope Oleg is watching 'Blitz Street' - everything we ever needed to know about bomb damage - quite amazing....

Shame the Doodle bug test was "simulated" as the health and safety nerds stopped the full test :9

[AndyJWest]

Originally Posted by KG26_Alpha

Shame the Doodle bug test was "simulated" as the health and safety nerds stopped the full test :9

Er, yes, except that the H & S nerds thought that a full-power test might have blown widows out a couple of miles away, with the conditions as they were. I'd call that a good decision.

In any case, there was no need to use a full test - as was explained, they used less explosives, closer to the buildings, to get a similar effect. If they had used a full charge where they were, the entire test area would have been demolished. Spectacular, but not much use in determining building survivability.

[Dungeness]

Yep - I'd really think they should have taken the risk with the local residents eardrums . It would have been a HUGE explosion - I wonder what they'll do with the V2! Hope the guys outside the UK have caught up with this excellent series - http://www.channel4.com/programmes/b...guide/series-1. Must-see TV for anyone who has ever piloted a Ju87 or He111...