Would like to join, if I may

[Laertes]

On Welcome:

what type of physicist are you? Myself I am of the spend-an-our-to-make-a-delicate-target-then-blow-it-up(-then-do-it-again) kind.

The analyse-data-from-faraway-stars-and-try-to-determine-the-eventual-fate-of-the-universe sort.

On deck height:
Judged from several plans, deck height can be usually taken to be 8'-ish  - a general rule that I managed to get more or less accepted here. And there's no real reason to have a deck exactly at nominal waterline (so no division by 8 rule here).

We taller gentlemen will no doubt welcome that. As for the division-by-x rule, yeah, that's just for my own amusement.

HoI3: unfortunately they managed to ruin HoI2 by introducing 4x the micromanagement, and features that are way too easy to exploit in MP, and no possibility to mod it, that I stopped playing. As in any version of the game, it is very easy to build IC, but there's no way to increase resource production, so Japan and China is inherently weak. Especially coal, the most abundant resource in OTL and the most critical in HoI3, is in short supply in Asia. When digging it out of the ground should be a manpower issue for most nation.

I cannot tell a lie; the turbo-IC and mystifyingly-rare Energy bits are weird. The supply system is "interesting"; while I myself quite like it as adding some realism (name me a war that was fought with as much supply as the soldiers actually needed, let alone wanted) it does get weird at times. Frankly, as regards the micro, I find that the AI is good enough that the micro's only there if you want it.

In the case of Japan and China's resource stocks: Japan was historically massively short of even the most basic industrial inputs. The heavy industrial development of Manchukuo was largely a result of this, as (more famously) was the reasoning that led to the attack on the US (although that was more about oil and rubber). China, while blessed with limitless coal, had such bad infrastructure, limited investment, poor development and nigh-comical corruption, that increasing their yield was more a political than an MP problem.

On EU games: I've always seen them more as "games" than "simulations". They're fun, but the scope of them is so vast that I doubt they could write game mechanics good enough to make actual history emergent. Plus, the whole Eurocentric thing leads us inevitably to the late, great Edward Said's famous question of, "What went wrong?" Why did the Eastern countries decline during that period, and allow the West to come to dominate? It's not a question Said is able to answer even for the Islamic world, let alone India or China, and I have enough respect for him to not try to find an easy answer where he couldn't find a learned one. Until we actually know what happened, getting game mechanics to simulate it might be a little tricky.

[snip]

what type of physicist are you? Myself I am of the spend-an-our-to-make-a-delicate-target-then-blow-it-up(-then-do-it-again) kind.

The analyse-data-from-faraway-stars-and-try-to-determine-the-eventual-fate-of-the-universe sort.

Wait, there are more of us? I thought I was the only one. Given Im still in undergrad studies, but still...IM NOT ALONE!!

*Yes, I am a physics/engineering guy*

[maddox]

Oh, don't worry, more of the enginering types around.

Actualy, I think we're in the mayority...

Unless the military guys outnumber the engineers.

But remember.

Engineers design/build weapons, Architects design/build targets.

[ctwaterman]

Oh, don't worry, more of the enginering types around.

Actualy, I think we're in the mayority...

Unless the military guys outnumber the engineers.

But remember.

Engineers design/build weapons, Architects design/build targets.

Evil Grin... ;D

And us Political Science types give the orders..... :o 

Charles

[Laertes]

If it's any consolation, I work in finance. I just trained as a physicist. We fund the targets, and then bribe the politicians to give the orders to blow them up.

[ctwaterman]

*rubs fingers together in the universal signal that one is receptive to a liquid cash inducement*

Charles