Comments by "" (@johnshepherd8687) on "The Drydock - Episode 081" video.

  1. A three in one comment. (1) The craziest capture of an enemy warship has to be the U-505. It's a submarine so you have to blow it to the surface just right or else you sink it. Then you have to swarm aboard a vessel that you know nothing about that might self destruct or simply sink at a moment's notice. And you are doing something that nobody attempt in over a century. There is no book on how to do this. It's all improvise, adapt and overcome. Oh, and then you have to escape Admiral King's wrath. (2) Wargaming Jutland WWII style. December 9th , 1941 is an important date. If the fleet action get pushed into 1942 then you get North Carolina, maybe Washington but more important Ranger and Wasp. These two carriers may small by Pacific standards but their airwings are massive by ETO standards. That's pretty much game over for the Germans. (3) Generals and Admirals cheat in real exercise. A good example comes from a ground force exercise. George Patton cheated his way to victory in the Great 1941 Louisana War games, an exercise that involved more forces than the US Army has today. Patton looked at the road net and saw his best approach was to leave the designated exercise area and road to "victory" in 48 hours. His justification was there are no artificial boundaries in real war.
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  2.  @marktuffield6519  it has been so long ago I don't remember the question.
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