NT CoD French gun statistics?

[Chuck]

I had already written a program to resolve gun fire between the British & German fleets. Now have started on the Austrians, French and Russians. I have noticed the stats for each gun caliber for these navies are many and varied for each gun size. This is quite different from the British, Germans, Italians, and the Japanese. Were these latter navies that standardized or is there something different about the former navies?

[regiamarina]

Pre-Dreadnought is not really my main area of naval gaming but I would have thought the latter navies you mentioned were the main combatants for the high seas. Briatain and Germany were in an arms race so were constantly upgrading and modernizing their equipment with not just better weapons but better ways of doing things, Italy was the same for the Med, and Japan was a relative late comer to the race for the Pacific so could see what was working best in other nations.

The other navies were generally land locked nations more concerned with oposing armies than navies so would have put relatively little money into their fleets. Russia and Austria had no overseas colonies so didn't need big modern fleets and could update and modernize equipment on a more haphazard basis.

These are just my thoughts from my memory of history class and a few readings.

Martin

[TheDreadnought]

Just based on what you've said here, I think the French gun stats might have been modeled using a more detailed formula then the rest of the NT WWI and prior stats use. I'd tenatively say go ahead and use the standard gun size stats for the French.

Also, please do not share your program with anybody. Thanks!

[Chuck]

Thanks for replying to my question. I wanted to know more about why the some calibers were more various in their application and you answered my question. Your comment about the program is heard. I had assumed the rules were copyrighted and honored as such.