[HN Gopher] Show HN: A submarine combat game in the browser
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       Show HN: A submarine combat game in the browser
        
       Author : cckolon
       Score  : 18 points
       Date   : 2025-01-21 18:24 UTC (4 hours ago)
        
 (HTM) web link (bearingsonly.net)
 (TXT) w3m dump (bearingsonly.net)
        
       | azalemeth wrote:
       | This is very cool. On the tutorial page, if you confirm the
       | torpedo (and it fits) should you get a 'congratulations' popup?
        
         | cckolon wrote:
         | yeah I love that!
        
       | ge96 wrote:
       | Not sure if it's obvious/implied should say multiplayer
        
       | Boogie_Man wrote:
       | >Some games, like the early-2000s Sonalysts simulations,
       | accurately simulate TMA, but they are so complex that they are
       | hard to learn. As a qualified submarine officer, I still couldn't
       | figure out how to play Dangerous Waters.
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       | We love our wargamers don't we folks
        
       | dctoedt wrote:
       | > _Developing an intuition for these situations is hard. They
       | never happen in real life, and we practice them in high-fidelity
       | trainers where time is precious, so young officers don 't get
       | many reps. I thought it would be fun to cheaply simulate close
       | range engagements on a laptop, and play against my friends on the
       | web._
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       | I remember reading, decades ago, that the U.S. Navy's flight
       | school in Pensacola had a student who'd done unusually well in
       | the course because he'd bought a copy of an early version of
       | Microsoft's Flight Simulator software (IIRC) with maps of the
       | nearby Navy airfields used for student training. That led to the
       | Navy adopting PC-based flight simulator software generally. (I
       | couldn't find a reference.)
        
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