“To see the amount of engineering and work that went into building the vessel, you could see how it was the hallmark of national prestige before balance of power switched to the aircraft carrier.” Re-creating history “What rammed it home for me and what really got me into battleships, a real-life experience, was visiting the USS Massachusetts,” Muncaster said. The arms race between Great Britain and Imperial Germany factored into World War I, and what was then the biggest arms treaty in world history dealt with battleship restrictions in the 1920s. President Theodore Roosevelt’s use of older battleships (known as predreadnoughts) with the Great White Fleet. The battleship held an important place in the history of the past century. It served a diplomatic role in the projection of power - see U.S. “Looking at them, it all comes out in the game.” On top of that, these are hugely powerful ships, and you get that sense of power. Then you get to the North Carolina, the Iowa, and the Montana, three of the best-looking ships ever designed. ships looks, with the lattice masts to the tripod design. How Muncaster went from loving the small but deadly fighter planes to digging the majestic but lumbering and slow battleships is a story of scope and scale. He kinda got me hooked on aviation history, then naval history, visiting local museums … here in the Bay Area - the USS Jeremiah O’Brien, the USS Pampanito, and the USS Hornet - visiting fleet weeks.” “My dad was a pilot, and we shared a passion with history. “Hearing those stories, particularly of my uncle, flying P-51s ” he said.
His role shows you can turn your passions into a career even without having a college degree that fits the job. This ignited Muncaster’s lifelong interest in military history. How do the Tuskegee Airmen, the famed African-American fighter pilot groups of World War II, factor into a naval game? One of Wargaming’s researchers, the 26-year-old Muncaster, had a great-uncle who flew with these legendary airmen, along with a father who was also a pilot. And here’s how it does so, as GamesBeat learned from conversations with Wargaming’s Nicolas “The Chieftain” Moran, the director of militaria (aka chief historian), and Allan Muncaster of militaria relations.
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