Blather, Waffle and Poppycock!

[Last Hussar]

Not at home, but just realised there might be a problem with the 'Mount the plate on top' method; the tiles are sloped - like a roof but with a flat middle - the switches might be on one level on one side, and another on the next.

If I ever use flat tiles I will do this though.

[Last Hussar]

Hi

Woke up to a fair amount of snow in the Mendips this morning with vehicles unable to get up the hill in the village where I live for the first few of hours. Cars just seem to be able to make it now; hope it clears by Thursday as we need to get to Heathrow to catch a plane to Thailand. 

Cheers Paul

Snowed Saturday night/Sunday Morning here, but the Sunday morning rain cleared it. Because we are in a vale the weather does seem to do its own thing on occasion; the county border is on a ridge line, and you can sometimes see the line of clouds on this as you drive up the A41.

[Techno 3]

We had a tiny bit of snow (1-2cm ?) Saturday afternoon/early evening, but the rain almost washed it all away.
All gone by Sunday morning, apart from a tiny amount on the sides of the road in a couple of places.

On the 10 mile trip into Cardigan, Sunday morning, I only saw enough to make one small snowman. (If that !)

[Last Hussar]

Your own fault being on the coast - drag the town inland in future.

[Last Hussar]

Here is a problem for an idle moment...

As you may have seen I'm tweaking my Battle of Britain rules. I use the Spitfire as the basis for stats. I wrote it as the 'way the system works', and then extrapolated the other aircraft from that.
For instance there are three phases in a bound, so the Spitfire has a max speed of 9 - 3 moves in each phase. This gives me a Bf109 of Max 10, Hurricane of 8.

Each phase is 3 seconds.

Firing is as follows.

Start with -Range mod +/- Aspect mod + Guns +d6

A Spitfire carried 14 seconds of ammo, which was fired in 3 second bursts* (hence phase length), so that is 5 shots, 4 at +3, and the last at +2.

For the 109 I have 9 seconds (3 phases) of Cannon and Mg fire, then another 9 seconds of Mg fire after the cannon was empty.

There were just 2 MGs firing on interrupter through the prop.

The firing profile of the 109 is
+5 / +5 / +5 / -2 / -2 / -2

SO, given the MG pair is -2, what is the Cannon with no MG? (and no, it isn't +7!, the MGs aren't actually reducing their effectiveness.)

To be clear, I am not looking for any suggested amendments, the game works well as it is. This is just idle curiosity.


*RAF pilots would have the tracer every 3 seconds to help them count usage. The last 2 seconds often had a lot of tracer to say "You're out!"

[pierre the shy]

"Spring chicken to s***ehawk in one easy lesson" 

Purhaps this website will be of interest to you LH: https://flying-guns.com/flying-guns-wwii-fighters/

It lists various fighters and considers their armament, including how long they can fire their various weapons for.

[Last Hussar]

The day after my Birthday in 1991, the Alliance invaded Kuwait/Iraq.

On my birthday in 1981 there was an attempted coup in Spain.

On my birthday in 1988 Saddam Hussein begins a genocide against the Kurds

On my birthday in 2021 Four prison riots killed 62 people Ecuador.

The day after my birthday in 2022, Russia invaded Ukraine.


I might have to stop having Birthdays, people celebrate in the most inappropriate ways...

[fsn]

In January 2023, I started monitoring how much I spent on the hobby; figures, books, paints etc.

So far, it's somewhere between "wow!" and "ouch!".

I justify it 'cos I don't go on holiday, don't own a car and don't socialise. If I ain't at work, I'm hobbying.


To be fair I only looked at it 'cos I just put in another order with Pendraken and another with Maverick Models (flags for armies I haven't even started ordering!  )

[FierceKitty]

The day after my Birthday in 1991, the Alliance invaded Kuwait/Iraq.

On my birthday in 1981 there was an attempted coup in Spain.

On my birthday in 1988 Saddam Hussein begins a genocide against the Kurds

On my birthday in 2021 Four prison riots killed 62 people Ecuador.

The day after my birthday in 2022, Russia invaded Ukraine.


I might have to stop having Birthdays, people celebrate in the most inappropriate ways...

Mine's got the relief of the siege of Malta to its credit; also Borodino, from the days when Russians could with a straight face be called good guys in venues other than Quora.

[Last Hussar]

I'm impressed you were born before Borodino...

[FierceKitty]

And my house is bigger on the inside....

[Last Hussar]

It turns out 'The corridor' as we know it wasn't invented until late in the 16th century...

https://www.msn.com/en-gb/news/other/some-people-s-ancestors-are-kings-or-poets-i-m-proud-my-family-invented-the-corridor/ar-AA1wEmAJ?ocid=winp2fptaskbarhoverent&cvid=4e4e44327b5046f0939804024a210636&ei=4

[Last Hussar]

I've just had our new starter ask me how to use the photocopier - she's 24 AND NEVER HAD TO USE ONE BEFORE.

I feel soooooooo old... 

[Lord Kermit of Birkenhead]

What's a photocopier ?

[Last Hussar]

New fangled technology to you.

[Lord Kermit of Birkenhead]

OK - what is going on - has someone excavated a pyramid in Smoggy. There are "unread" posts from 2019 up today. Take it Leon has uploaded the entire "waybackmachine" content ?

[Last Hussar]

Yeah, I woke up to 15 Billion* notifications.

*This may be 10% inaccurate

[Ithoriel]

It's Leon's annual review of the "Oh God! What do these morons want us to make now??" stackpile.

[Leon]

OK - what is going on - has someone excavated a pyramid in Smoggy. There are "unread" posts from 2019 up today. Take it Leon has uploaded the entire "waybackmachine" content ?

Yep, exactly as Ithoriel suspects, I've not updated the requests lists for a while so thought I'd get it done last night.  We're hoping to clear some of the decks this year (along with some of the requests too) so I'll get a new Top 10 list put out this weekend.

[steve_holmes_11]

It's Leon's annual review of the "Oh God! What do these morons want us to make now??" stackpile.

Saint Helenan voltigeurs form the war of Jenkins Ear....