I hate guns being in mm

[FJ88]

This is my first request for the game, an option in the menu scree to convet all guns sizes to inches instead of mm.

[solops]

You must be joking. They did the gun sizes in MILLIMETERS????!!!

This needs to be changed ASAP.

[ETF]

Ah.....but the world is now metric isn't it:laugh:

[NormKoger]

Mea culpa...

Measurements for just about everything associated with the game were given in bewildering array of systems in the original references. Even converting everything to inches would not be strictly accurate, as pounds, inches and metric measurements were all in general use at the time.

It could be worse. I could have followed the convention in many of the Russian references and expressed all distances in "cables." :)

[FJ88]

You must be joking. They did the gun sizes in MILLIMETERS????!!!

This needs to be changed ASAP.


Almost every naval book I have ever read has converted gun calibours to inches.

[Rhetor]

Almost every naval book I have ever read has converted gun calibours to inches.

Because you're reading in English :-D eg. Germans used to use centimeters (Acht koma Acht, zum Beispiel :-D), that is why their callibers were often in round numbers: 150 mm instead of 152 mm or 380 instead of 381 mm.

One of the things I find hardest to imagine is how you people cope with all those gallons, pints, pounds, feet, yards, miles.... When I'm translating a book into Polish, I always have to convert into good old metric system :-D

[Commodore Rob]

cant do away with Pints;)

[FJ88]

Because you're reading in English :-D eg. Germans used to use centimeters (Acht koma Acht, zum Beispiel :-D), that is why their callibers were often in round numbers: 150 mm instead of 152 mm or 380 instead of 381 mm.

One of the things I find hardest to imagine is how you people cope with all those gallons, pints, pounds, feet, yards, miles.... When I'm translating a book into Polish, I always have to convert into good old metric system :-D


I am German ;)

The naval books I have read in German always converted guns to inches as well no matter the navy involved.
I think it is because they always used the worlds standerd which has always been the Royal Navy standerd.

Tonight I am going to work up a quick list of mm = inches conversion chart and post it here for the interested parties.

[Commodore Rob]

well i have a copy of janes in front of me:) ok it is the ww1 version but it has many of the ships that surviuved from the period

[Redwolf]

When will America ever realize the Imperial System is wrecking their kid's math skills? So much wastage :)

[vyshka]

Mea culpa...

Measurements for just about everything associated with the game were given in bewildering array of systems in the original references. Even converting everything to inches would not be strictly accurate, as pounds, inches and metric measurements were all in general use at the time.

It could be worse. I could have followed the convention in many of the Russian references and expressed all distances in "cables." :)

"Cables" would be my preference. ;)

[vyshka]

cant do away with Pints;)

Ah, the true reason the English system persists to this day. :toast:

[Hinchinbrooke]

Yep, everything in "mm" is a bit of a pain, but I just keep my copy of Conway's by the computer for handy reference.:D

[Rhetor]

Ok, let's go:

75 mm - 3 inches
102 mm - 4 inches
127mm - 5 inches
152mm - 6 inches
203 mm - 8 inches
254 mm - 10 inches
280 mm - 11 inches
305 mm - 12 inches

And, for the future versions of Distant Guns:

343 mm - 13,5 inches
356 mm - 14 inches
381 mm - 15 inches
406 mm - 16 inches
457 mm - 18 inches

And that's from memory :-D Sorry, I wasn't aware that it was a problem, since the inch-milimeter naval callibers are pretty familiar to me.

[Neutrino 123]

Just remember, one inch is 25.4mm, so you can do all the calculations in your head easily to the nearest half-inch or so.

[Bloodstar]

Mea culpa...

Measurements for just about everything associated with the game were given in bewildering array of systems in the original references. Even converting everything to inches would not be strictly accurate, as pounds, inches and metric measurements were all in general use at the time.

It could be worse. I could have followed the convention in many of the Russian references and expressed all distances in "cables." :)

I don't have problem with that! :smoke:


Mario