On Thu, Oct 9, 2014 at 12:56 PM, Phil Pugliese (via tml list) <xxxxxx@simplelists.com> wrote: > According to the memoirs of a survivor of the sinking of the >IJN Yamato in WWII, the USN dive bombers strafed the BB >as they pulled out (he said they were so close that he could >see the faces of the rear gunners screaming at them) & that >the strafing had a significant impact. Mainly casualties, of course > & not affecting the structural integrity of the ship. Yeah. But I don't particularly see that translating into Traveller terms. -- "Any sufficiently advanced parody is indistinguishable from a genuine kook." -Alan Morgan