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CS Game Scale - Manual Style
08-30-2009, 02:17 PM, (This post was last modified: 08-30-2009, 02:19 PM by Hawk Kriegsman.)
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RE: CS Game Scale - Manual Style
K K Rossokolski Wrote:I said above that I would pull out of this, a statement I now withdraw because I have for a long time had a question about game scale, and now, with a couple of scale experts to hand, is a good time to ask it.

Ed....given that you view the scale parameters in The Game Manual as on a par with Holy Writ, I should be interested in your views on the following.
I play on a laptop, almost always in 3d Zoomout view, which means the screen is about 14 hexes...lets be conservative and call that 3km wide. With for example, a P-47 airstrike, the little aeroplane zips across diagonally, maybe 2km. But lets be conservative, and call it 1 km. I have for years tried to time this, and failed to get it exactly. It is less than a second, but let's call it one. No, be conservative and call it two seconds. So conservatively in two seconds, the P-47 travels one km. Now that, at 3600 seconds in an hour, means that little sucker can go 1800 km, which conservatively gives him a top speed of >1100 mph.
Which is a good deal faster than sound, conservatively speaking.
Most sources give the "Jug" a top of around 430mph.

Perhaps you could explain this to me?

Let's do some real math.

A turn is 6 minutes (per every edition of the manual). The airstrike you quote represents 6 minutes of airstrikes.

We will use your 430 mph. Works for me. That is 691,870 meters in 1 hour.

That is 69,187 meters in 6 minutes.

69,187 metes is the equivelent of 276.7 hexes in 6 minutes.

or the equivelent of 27.7 hexes in a minute.

or 13.8 hexes in 30 seconds.

The P47 easily performs its combat mission within the 6 minutes time frame alloted and within its technical parameters.

Seriously Rod numbers and statistics is what I do for a living.

Don't trot out faultly mathematics and expect me to ignore it.

You are way of base with your example as stated above.

Get as nasty as you like with your resposes.

I will let the math do the talking.

Thanx!

Hawk
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RE: CS Game Scale - Manual Style - by Glint - 08-23-2009, 04:37 AM
RE: CS Game Scale - Manual Style - by Glint - 08-23-2009, 05:57 AM
RE: CS Game Scale - Manual Style - by Von Luck - 08-23-2009, 06:39 AM
RE: CS Game Scale - Manual Style - by Glint - 08-23-2009, 07:38 AM
RE: CS Game Scale - Manual Style - by Von Luck - 08-26-2009, 06:21 AM
RE: CS Game Scale - Manual Style - by umbro - 08-27-2009, 05:14 AM
RE: CS Game Scale - Manual Style - by umbro - 08-27-2009, 12:06 PM
RE: CS Game Scale - Manual Style - by umbro - 08-27-2009, 12:10 PM
RE: CS Game Scale - Manual Style - by Kool Kat - 08-30-2009, 02:32 AM
RE: CS Game Scale - Manual Style - by Kool Kat - 08-30-2009, 07:53 AM
RE: CS Game Scale - Manual Style - by Glint - 08-30-2009, 07:22 AM
RE: CS Game Scale - Manual Style - by Kool Kat - 08-30-2009, 09:17 AM
RE: CS Game Scale - Manual Style - by Glint - 08-30-2009, 07:56 AM
RE: CS Game Scale - Manual Style - by Glint - 08-30-2009, 08:17 AM
RE: CS Game Scale - Manual Style - by Steel God - 08-30-2009, 10:08 AM
RE: CS Game Scale - Manual Style - by Glint - 08-30-2009, 10:23 AM
RE: CS Game Scale - Manual Style - by Kool Kat - 08-30-2009, 08:24 PM
RE: CS Game Scale - Manual Style - by Hawk Kriegsman - 08-30-2009, 02:17 PM
RE: CS Game Scale - Manual Style - by Glint - 08-30-2009, 10:53 AM
RE: CS Game Scale - Manual Style - by Steel God - 08-30-2009, 12:57 PM
RE: CS Game Scale - Manual Style - by Glint - 08-30-2009, 08:55 PM
RE: CS Game Scale - Manual Style - by Kool Kat - 08-30-2009, 10:05 PM
RE: CS Game Scale - Manual Style - by zap - 08-30-2009, 11:52 PM
RE: CS Game Scale - Manual Style - by Glint - 08-31-2009, 04:59 AM
RE: CS Game Scale - Manual Style - by Glint - 08-31-2009, 05:43 AM
RE: CS Game Scale - Manual Style - by Glint - 08-31-2009, 05:56 AM
RE: CS Game Scale - Manual Style - by Glint - 08-31-2009, 06:29 AM
RE: CS Game Scale - Manual Style - by Glint - 08-31-2009, 07:28 AM
RE: CS Game Scale - Manual Style - by Glint - 08-31-2009, 07:42 AM
RE: CS Game Scale - Manual Style - by zap - 08-31-2009, 08:44 AM

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