Ok, I'm off-topic. Mea culpa. Re: The many Marks of the GZG Mailing List.

***My obituary will be some humerous tale on a morning drive time radio
program of the discovery of my bleached bones sitting in front of a televison
with the remote in one hand and a copy of the FT fleet book in my
hand.***

Aren't you being a little bleak? Really lacking in optimism? FTIII should be
out by then!

Seriously, at your age, I had several very pleasant loves to look forward to,
one bad marraige, and still time to find a woman who'll care for me far more
than I deserve. It just takes awhile to quit mourning in between.

***LUXURY! if that's per hour, that's what I get teaching at ADFA (after
tax).***

Even allowing for after tax. if those are Aussie dollars, I could afford to
pay you to design, assemble, and paint my ships. Course, McDonalds could do
the same for flipping burgers. And I thought our military was getting the
short end. (Not that they aren't.)

***60 ships per side? Ye Gods. Not a small game. About 30's my limit, and the
orders for most are by squadrons, ie "Unit 12: L3 Accel 3, Final Speed
22. Units 13-24 likewise."***

Course, I'd like to see a few 'squadron' orders designed. If the squadron has
to flip course, I'd like to be able to flip the positions of particular ships.
Referring back to where we like to keep our lighter units, of course.

Oh, merde, I went back on topic... *sigh*

The_Beast

> devans@uneb.edu wrote:
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> Course, I'd like to see a few 'squadron' orders designed. If the

Consivering the way things are going, I really hate to say something like
this, BUT...

When I do the squadron move concept, I plot for the ship nearest the enemy
fleet an move all others in the squadron so that they end within 3 inches of
the plotted ship and not nearer to the enemy. (Another option is to move the
ploted ship and move in a formation,
like 'line astern'.)   Just don't worry if the movement isn't quite
right, everything works out in the end
.
Bye for now,

> devans@uneb.edu wrote:

> Seriously, at your age, I had several very pleasant loves to look

I lucked out in this regard. After batting.000 until I was 22, the firts girl
I got serious about became my wife. She had her own model railway set, AND a
copy of Panzerblitz.

> ***LUXURY! if that's per hour, that's what I get teaching at ADFA

Fortunately, I did the conversion to US Dollars. $21 Aus per hour, but you
only get paid for about half the hours you actually put in.

> Course, I'd like to see a few 'squadron' orders designed. If the

Yes, it would be nice to be able to effectively do a turn in-line
astern.