So i learned an interesting fact about one of the games i play today. Its just a simple WW2 historical naval game w/ little pre-painted ships. kind of dumb but a fun way to kill time.
somebody with more time and inclination than i (and if i have learned anything it is that there are always such individuals on the Internet no matter the subject) compiled a list of actual measurements of the ships in the game and compared them to the lengths of the pieces.
Lo and behold every single ship with only 3 exceptions out of 120 is an accurate 1:1800 scale within a 2% margin of error.
This is amazing to me, this is a game which i thought paid only lip service to any actual accuracy, e.g. big ships bigger, small ships smaller, furthermore this astounding accuracy is utterly superfluous. (and not in the sense that any board game in all reality is more or less superfluous, haha) The game itself uses squares on the board and only two ships no matter how big or small can fit in a square, distance is only ever measured by squares.
maybe this doesn't interest anyone else as much as me, but i just feel better knowing that someone out there, or more likely a team of someones spent countless hours making something to an exact specification for the sake of there own amusement, and never proclaiming this feat of microengineering anywhere at all.
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