Nick Bradbeer
@nickbradbeer.bsky.social
Assoc. Professor of Naval Architecture @ UCL. Director, UCL Submarine Design Course. Nerd, maker, gamer, wargame builder. He/him.
I mostly post about games I'm playing for fun and games I'm creating for work, with the odd diversion into submarine design.
I mostly post about games I'm playing for fun and games I'm creating for work, with the odd diversion into submarine design.
THANKS EDAIN.
THEDAIN.
THEDAIN.
November 11, 2025 at 6:54 PM
THANKS EDAIN.
THEDAIN.
THEDAIN.
I am a dreadful monster with an APPALLING record of actually making lunch engagements with you.
November 11, 2025 at 5:34 PM
I am a dreadful monster with an APPALLING record of actually making lunch engagements with you.
Reposted by Nick Bradbeer
The word "may" is doing a lot of heavy lifting there. As I understand it those cluster bombs had two types of fuzes - one which would have sensitised and one which wouldn't - and we don't know which type(s) are on the bombs actually down there.
November 11, 2025 at 4:28 PM
The word "may" is doing a lot of heavy lifting there. As I understand it those cluster bombs had two types of fuzes - one which would have sensitised and one which wouldn't - and we don't know which type(s) are on the bombs actually down there.
I got to spend a delightful afternoon in a (properly licensed) quarry setting off pipe bombs under water to demonstrate how even a narrow water gap is really good at preventing sympathetic detonation, while filming for Drain The Oceans, and they didn't use any of that footage in the episode. Alas.
November 11, 2025 at 4:33 PM
I got to spend a delightful afternoon in a (properly licensed) quarry setting off pipe bombs under water to demonstrate how even a narrow water gap is really good at preventing sympathetic detonation, while filming for Drain The Oceans, and they didn't use any of that footage in the episode. Alas.
(But even then, as I understand it the risk of a mass detonation resulting from a cluster bomb detonating is pretty low. The greater risk might be a smaller detonation yeeting unfuzed but still big and heavy bombs around the place.)
November 11, 2025 at 4:30 PM
(But even then, as I understand it the risk of a mass detonation resulting from a cluster bomb detonating is pretty low. The greater risk might be a smaller detonation yeeting unfuzed but still big and heavy bombs around the place.)
Incidentally, before looking into the Montgomery, I had had no idea we *had* cluster bombs in WW2. Every day a schoolday, etc.
November 11, 2025 at 4:28 PM
Incidentally, before looking into the Montgomery, I had had no idea we *had* cluster bombs in WW2. Every day a schoolday, etc.
The word "may" is doing a lot of heavy lifting there. As I understand it those cluster bombs had two types of fuzes - one which would have sensitised and one which wouldn't - and we don't know which type(s) are on the bombs actually down there.
November 11, 2025 at 4:28 PM
The word "may" is doing a lot of heavy lifting there. As I understand it those cluster bombs had two types of fuzes - one which would have sensitised and one which wouldn't - and we don't know which type(s) are on the bombs actually down there.
The fact you checked those two means that what I make of it is that you're some kind of monster ;)
November 11, 2025 at 11:21 AM
The fact you checked those two means that what I make of it is that you're some kind of monster ;)
Really is a second job!
November 11, 2025 at 9:49 AM
Really is a second job!
Scroll to the top; yep, written by me, 11th November 2024.
On the one hand, a little concerning that I'd completely forgotten writing it. On the other, good job, Past Nick!
On the one hand, a little concerning that I'd completely forgotten writing it. On the other, good job, Past Nick!
November 10, 2025 at 9:54 AM
Scroll to the top; yep, written by me, 11th November 2024.
On the one hand, a little concerning that I'd completely forgotten writing it. On the other, good job, Past Nick!
On the one hand, a little concerning that I'd completely forgotten writing it. On the other, good job, Past Nick!
I don't need any details. It's enough for me to know you fucking love planes.
November 8, 2025 at 7:47 PM
I don't need any details. It's enough for me to know you fucking love planes.
Gen quite jealous that you met Jocelyn Bell Burnell though!
November 8, 2025 at 7:15 PM
Gen quite jealous that you met Jocelyn Bell Burnell though!
Oh, I'm great, don't get me wrong 😉
I'm just in no way *senior*
I'm just in no way *senior*
November 8, 2025 at 7:15 PM
Oh, I'm great, don't get me wrong 😉
I'm just in no way *senior*
I'm just in no way *senior*
I'm absolutely not a *senior* academic, but thankyou for the sentiment 😀
November 8, 2025 at 3:31 PM
I'm absolutely not a *senior* academic, but thankyou for the sentiment 😀
And obviously if someone launches a large ballistic sandwich everyone has to assume it's a strategic. (Footlong meatball marinara or something.)
November 6, 2025 at 9:55 PM
And obviously if someone launches a large ballistic sandwich everyone has to assume it's a strategic. (Footlong meatball marinara or something.)
Yes you could.
I argue this would not improve the User Experience.
I argue this would not improve the User Experience.
November 5, 2025 at 5:27 PM
Yes you could.
I argue this would not improve the User Experience.
I argue this would not improve the User Experience.
Okay, now this has my attention.
Obviously it's *extremely* cursed, but very cool.
(I bought a DCC dice set with everything from a d3 to a d30 through all the weird numbers and its general air of wrongness continutes to entertain me.)
Obviously it's *extremely* cursed, but very cool.
(I bought a DCC dice set with everything from a d3 to a d30 through all the weird numbers and its general air of wrongness continutes to entertain me.)
November 5, 2025 at 3:50 PM
Okay, now this has my attention.
Obviously it's *extremely* cursed, but very cool.
(I bought a DCC dice set with everything from a d3 to a d30 through all the weird numbers and its general air of wrongness continutes to entertain me.)
Obviously it's *extremely* cursed, but very cool.
(I bought a DCC dice set with everything from a d3 to a d30 through all the weird numbers and its general air of wrongness continutes to entertain me.)
You're a hexadecahedral terror
November 5, 2025 at 2:19 PM
You're a hexadecahedral terror
2d4 doesn't work as well; it's twice as many dice to roll and the hexes aren't in a grid.
Besides, SOMEONE already sold me a bunch of d16s.
Besides, SOMEONE already sold me a bunch of d16s.
November 5, 2025 at 8:02 AM
2d4 doesn't work as well; it's twice as many dice to roll and the hexes aren't in a grid.
Besides, SOMEONE already sold me a bunch of d16s.
Besides, SOMEONE already sold me a bunch of d16s.
My games use 40nm and 10nm hexes.
And there are 16 10nm hexes in a 40nm hex. If I'm scaling down and need to determine exactly where something is....
And there are 16 10nm hexes in a 40nm hex. If I'm scaling down and need to determine exactly where something is....
November 4, 2025 at 11:24 PM
My games use 40nm and 10nm hexes.
And there are 16 10nm hexes in a 40nm hex. If I'm scaling down and need to determine exactly where something is....
And there are 16 10nm hexes in a 40nm hex. If I'm scaling down and need to determine exactly where something is....