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| Guadalcanal Campaign - The Battle of Tassafaronga: (IJN 4(?) : 3 USN) |
| 2023-01-23 |
The engagement took place in Ironbottom Sound off Tassafaronga Point on Guadalcanal’s northern coast. A U.S. Navy task force attempted to surprise and destroy Japanese destroyers dispatched to resupply Japanese ground forces on Guadalcanal. Utilizing their still relatively new surface-search radar, the U.S. task force located the Japanese ships and sank an enemy destroyer. However, the other Japanese warships reacted quickly and fired numerous very effective Type 93 “Long Lance” torpedoes, sinking one U.S. cruiser and heavily damaging three others. The Japanese were able to escape, but also did not land their supplies and reinforcements, with deleterious effects for their forces on Guadalcanal. |
| Posted by:badanov |
| #6 Mike, it was a small 'one man' operation called ...R.A.W. out of Dallas, TX IIRC. It had a purely text based interface back when floppies were being replaced by 1.44M microdisks. |
| Posted by: magpie 2023-01-23 11:14 |
| #5 ...correct link. |
| Posted by: Procopius2k 2023-01-23 08:32 |
| #4 Rather long dissertation on the Naval War College interwar gaming. What they did, what they didn't do, and why. |
| Posted by: Procopius2k 2023-01-23 08:31 |
| #3 #1 The US Navy had a Wargame that the had developed in the years after WW1 to use as a training aide -- moving Real Ships in Real Life is expensive and, well, they can't actually fire Real Shells at each other in training. Back in the 90's I had a computer version that an ex-Navy officer had produced and in the foreword he stated: "The US Navy Wargame simulated everything in WW2 except for two weapon systems: 1) the kamikaze attacks and 2) the Type 93 "Long Lance" Torpedo..." Posted by: magpie 2023-01-23 00:58 Magpie, Is the computer version you're referring to Harpoon? Played that for several iterations until it kind of faded out about fifteen years ago. It's spiritual descendant (with a lot of the stillborn Harpoon IV in it) is COMMAND: Modern Operations...and it doesn't get any better than C:MO. Just no WWII database yet. Mike |
| Posted by: MikeKozlowski 2023-01-23 07:46 |
| #2 ?\...He had permission to use the US Navy Wargame's documents, or so he said. |
| Posted by: magpie 2023-01-23 00:59 |
| #1 The US Navy had a Wargame that the had developed in the years after WW1 to use as a training aide -- moving Real Ships in Real Life is expensive and, well, they can't actually fire Real Shells at each other in training. Back in the 90's I had a computer version that an ex-Navy officer had produced and in the foreword he stated: "The US Navy Wargame simulated everything in WW2 except for two weapon systems: 1) the kamikaze attacks and 2) the Type 93 "Long Lance" Torpedo..." |
| Posted by: magpie 2023-01-23 00:58 |