David Manley

David Manley

@profdm.bsky.social

Academic(ish), naval architect, naval wargames designer, cat dad and alpaca wrangler

423 Followers 115 Following 18 Posts Joined Nov 2024
1 year ago
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Another trip to the islands :)

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1 year ago

Bad luck on the timetabling of this after all the other students have gone home for Christmas ;)

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1 year ago

Hold fast!

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1 year ago
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Bringing these guys in from the field when you are on a walking stick is NOT fun - but all completed successfully, hooves trimmed and the boys back to their field and hay with no drama. Thanks to the ladies at the yard for their help, and for Neil walking Dob Dobs back for me :)

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1 year ago

I just covered this with my MSc students on my maritime survivability module

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1 year ago

Oh, and you can't say "torpedo" - thats solutioneering:)

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1 year ago

Members of the Platform Agnostic Network Centric Single Platform Multi Domain Attritable Effectors Project Team are going to need bigger business cards

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1 year ago
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The subject of today's discussions :)

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1 year ago

My ASW frigate has a Merlin and ASROC :)

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1 year ago

Designing a boat that could carry the vehicles, surface through ice and deploy them was OK, but the ice would be too thin to support the vehicles so the students put the battery on the submarine.
My favourite design that year :)

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1 year ago

Yes, it was the student's answer to "how do we land an S-300 battery in the ice from a submarine?" (a requirement that fell out of some wargaming that we were doing with some interesting people).

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1 year ago

That was a good year :)

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1 year ago

After a hard day's wargame planning, a chance to unwind at NATO's favourite pub :)

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1 year ago

Because they enjoy the same fun that you do :D

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1 year ago

The player (if they stick with it) gets a good impression of the huge sense of relief if they get their ship home from the 25th mission

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1 year ago

B17 QotS being a good example I think. The game runs on rails, players have little to no control as to what they can do, they just have to survive. It is quite an "accurate" representation of the life and death of a bomber crew in the 8th Air Force, but is quite compelling.

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1 year ago

10mm per hex? Wow, the resolution for the tactical game is achieving hitherto unknown levels ! :)

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1 year ago

LOL, first time for everything :)

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