David Manley
profdm.bsky.social
David Manley
@profdm.bsky.social
Academic(ish), naval architect, naval wargames designer, cat dad and alpaca wrangler
Bad luck on the timetabling of this after all the other students have gone home for Christmas ;)
December 16, 2024 at 8:59 AM
Hold fast!
December 13, 2024 at 4:52 PM
I just covered this with my MSc students on my maritime survivability module
December 11, 2024 at 8:57 AM
Oh, and you can't say "torpedo" - thats solutioneering:)
December 11, 2024 at 8:49 AM
Members of the Platform Agnostic Network Centric Single Platform Multi Domain Attritable Effectors Project Team are going to need bigger business cards
December 11, 2024 at 8:47 AM
My ASW frigate has a Merlin and ASROC :)
December 3, 2024 at 10:07 PM
Designing a boat that could carry the vehicles, surface through ice and deploy them was OK, but the ice would be too thin to support the vehicles so the students put the battery on the submarine.
My favourite design that year :)
December 1, 2024 at 10:28 PM
Yes, it was the student's answer to "how do we land an S-300 battery in the ice from a submarine?" (a requirement that fell out of some wargaming that we were doing with some interesting people).
December 1, 2024 at 10:26 PM
That was a good year :)
December 1, 2024 at 10:23 PM
Because they enjoy the same fun that you do :D
November 27, 2024 at 9:16 PM
The player (if they stick with it) gets a good impression of the huge sense of relief if they get their ship home from the 25th mission
November 26, 2024 at 8:45 AM
B17 QotS being a good example I think. The game runs on rails, players have little to no control as to what they can do, they just have to survive. It is quite an "accurate" representation of the life and death of a bomber crew in the 8th Air Force, but is quite compelling.
November 26, 2024 at 8:44 AM
LOL, first time for everything :)
November 25, 2024 at 9:11 AM