I'm so square that I had a clogged pump kill me in the 2nd sortie, followed by a pump-impeller-setscrew failure killing me in the third (they let me come back out after cleaering it in the 2nd) I'm home now, cooling off in the AC, then I will run out to the shop and solder together a brass impeller.
The outside of the pump housing is mostly square On the plus side, today I finally had decent guns. It won't last, but it was nice to see what it was like lol.
So long as you bring honor to the Armored Cruiser Club. Hard hitting guns will teach them not to mock us!
Yeah, I'm fighting well. Dave Ranier and Don Cole seem to be attacted to lil Scharnie for some reason. They keep pushing my boat around and have people block me off. So I might have accumulated a few ram penalties for below the WL rams. I don't like ramming, but it's hard to get away and lil Scharnie don't slow down so good, even with solid drag discs.
Foul tactics! They can't stand the magnificence of the Armored Cruiser so the penalize you by making you ram them. Typical Allied treachery....oh...wait...nvm.
Yes, when I did ram Rick King's Graf Spee (we were flag/no flag as the allies were afraid to fight against Axis with only a 2-to-1 advantage), I told him that I thought I'd hit him pretty good and that he might need to check it. I didn't totally cave in a panel, but it needed fixing. I was going to sand my ram bow flat, but some measuring revealed that Lil Scharnie's bow is not thick enough to sand to an appreciably flat point. Their fiberglass guy is GOOD, I'd have bet that it was solid for a half inch or an inch in that area, it's hard to lay up those areas... So I will have to pour some epoxy in there and then sand it flat to avoid doing too much ram damage; I never had any before I got this ship. At least the guns played nice! My Spektrum receiver pooped the bed this morning; it won't stay bound to the tx. Every time I remove the power from the rx, it loses it's bind. So I'm shopping for a new rx. I will also be epoxy potting my Exceed RC Rx for future use... October battle coming!!
At least Edmund's bow has a gentle curve to it. Not pointy at all. Now King Edward VII/Lord Nelson...very pointy.
Mike M told me he did a Circle of Death match at Nats, no holds barred... said he had Verite going like speed 18, and made full use of the ram bow Ah, if only I'd been there to see it
Don and I were attracted to all the other boats, not just Clark's little Armored cruiser. I think they all got sunk again, one way or another. Little Jenny's Mississippi was I think the only other boat that did not sink, except for the cruiser's that always run away. Tim did a great job on the Mississippi, I was quite impressed with it. It did look more like a bobber floating around more than a ship. I think you rammed Don's Duke pretty well also Clark, when he was pumping hard that one time, and his pump got clogged with the Georgia muck and he went down, he checked it and found a nice big ram hole in it.
I'd love to see a picture of that Mississippi. I have the hull but have put off doing any thing with it for the moment.
Two things: 1) It's not a cruiser's job to slug with battleships 2) Rams not called are rams that didn't happen I _am_ going to be doing as Don suggested and pour a bit of West into the bow and then grind it down flat. I don't really like averaging 2 or 3 damaging rams per battle. J, little Jenny with the PDN was having fun and doing well. Must be something in the Krakowski genetics, her older brother is getting good in his cruiser. Good enough that his dad has explicitly told us to give him no slack. I think he's like 9 years old?
Did you already replace the nose with foam like you were talking abouit doing? You would think that would of helped some.
