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Old November 29th, 2009, 12:01 PM
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Well this is turning into quite a project....

Given how the German OOB is scrutinized by nearly everyone it's always interesting when something like this is discovered so I checked back to the earliest OOB I have on the computer ATM ( DOS ver 5 ) and that gave unit 151 4 ROF as well ( there were no units > 599 in Dos v5 so I couldn't check U 735 )

I checked Dos V7 and unit 151 was 4 and 735 was 5 but in Dos ver 7.01 it's 5 and 5. However in win ver 2 it's back to 4 and 5 again.

There were some odd bits of data that changed back and forth between the last Dos Version and the first Win version and a couple years back we decided the only explanation was we used a copy of the V7 OOB's as the start point for Win Ver 1 on at least some of the OOB's and that's further backed up by this latest discovery of the ROF going from 4 to 5 then back to 4.

I checked all the 150 mm type guns/ howitzers with our development database checker and 5 is the standard except in a couple of cases. Unit 151 is now 5 ROF and I'm looking into unit 330 as well but as I recal that's an old French piece ( which means the PIC's wrong ). I'm checking Hoggs book on German arty now.......... yep that the old french 155 gpf. Pic now fixed 4 ROF is correct

New problem discovered... China has the 15cm sFH 18 2 years before the German army gets it I doubt they ever saw it but I'll look into that now as well

This is now I spend my day sometimes, chasing one error that reveals another error that opens pandoras box of errors. None are showstoppers but they all need to be hunted down




Don

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