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Jalak posted:Near the end of the war, Japan started sending diplomatic overtures to the Soviets to try and have them broker a peace deal between them and the Allies and even mentioned how America was going to be a major player in global politics and having a "grateful Asia" would be in Russia's best interests. A week later, Russia invaded Manchuria, so that fell apart pretty quickly. I like to imagine that Stalin had a good laugh when he got that memo. Put him in a good enough mood he didn't have anyone shot that day.
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   No hits, but a good attempt!  This is much better.   A single destroyer sweeps through our ships in Kuantan, causing chaos.  This is not the mass raid I ordered.  This is more like it, although no hits reported.  The Kido Butai is here now, and they get a good hit on a big ship. Taking this out will be a nice result.  Actually, there are a lot of valuable ships here.  The Indians surrender, they put up a brave fight.   I hope this was full of tanks.  This one looks like a nice target as well.   More reinforcements march into Clark field – once more, most of our losses are disabled squads, and acceptable. Cracking the fort makes this a good day.   We smash another force.   A good day, but we have to accept that Singapore and Port Moresby are being reinforced. This could cause problems later on, but for now, we got the cat amongst the pigeons.  Although there is only a few of their ships on the sheet at this time.
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Holy poo poo that's a lot of passenger liners. You need to blockade Singapore until they're all dead.
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drat. I was hoping we would end the month/year with a positive ship K/D ratio.
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Grey Hunter posted:
I don't believe there were many allied tanks in the area at this time.
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  Whoo, that's a nice sized tanker.  This one is small, but I'll take it.   Clunk! Mwah ha ha!  This one just skips to using its guns.  This is more what I wanted – although some more support would be nice!  A few days of this and we can end the air problem in the region.  We hit another troop ship.  A couple of fleeing ships are also run down.  We continue to push north.  Our forces outside Sinyang have a good defensive position, and hold off a superior force easily.  We take the base next to Clark field, despite the fact we have a lower AV – the enemy morale is low !  Some nice advances today, and it looks like the air war in Malaya is moving in my direction at last. Having to check all the fighters every few days to stop them resetting to 100ft operating height is annoying, but its just in this area, so its a short term problem.  A nicely one sided sheet here.  Oh yeah, its that time of the month – as before, I will be comparing my progress to that of the previous Allied campaign! There will be some oddities here, as the hidden losses has been reversed, so all Japanese losses are automatically reported, while the Allied ones will be hidden, but as long as we keep this in mind, we should be fine.  Score wise we are on track, the AI has a lower score, and while we also has a lower score, nothing from Pearl Harbor has been confirmed. This one could jump again, or I could have had the second Pearl Harbor attack in a row where nothing was sunk!  Base wise, we are doing as well, but not better than the AI.  Now this one is a surprise! I thought I was losing planes left right and centre, but my losses have been much lower than the AI's over the same time period.  A few bad days in China have spiked this – you can literally see the days we where hit hard.  This is the most inaccurate one at the moment – our kills at Pearl have not been confirmed by our spies, while all our losses have. Interestingly, the PATTERN of the graphs is the same, just the values are much higher.  Same story here!  Here are our best pilots – Chono has racked up a massive nine kills in the month, and the Yamada Det1 squadron has eight of the top ten pilots.  Here are the ship kills – most of these are not confirmed. I'm not listing all the smaller ships. Okay! Onto plans. Here is the extent of our conquests so far.  For now, I'm trying to unlock troops to support the push to Rabaul, but I'm not getting the Political points needed to do so, so this may take some time. The main plan is to carry on pushing along the historical lines, finishing off in the Philippines and then hitting the Dutch East Indies.  The plan in China is based around stripping the Manchurian garrison to provide thousands of fresh bodies, once we have locked down China, I can begin to move these troops out to other theatres (as much as they are not locked in.) That's the basics, I'm pretty much on autopilot at the moment, the real plans should begin once the Philippines falls. Happy new year all! One year down, four to go! (IT COUNTS!)
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Grey Hunter posted:Happy new year all! One year down, four to go! Well now. Someone's aiming for the stars I see.
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Theantero posted:Well now. Someone's aiming for the stars I see. Go big or go home. Banzaiiiiiiiiii!
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The Dominion Monarch is a 3500 troops at 20 knots job, so she's nice to get out of the way. The Leonard Wood is smaller and slightly slower, but actually designed as a possibe troop ship. The Mount Vernon is better than both, carrying 6000 troops plus crew, cruising at 20.5 knots. Basically, kill all passenger liners.
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Happy new years Grey, here's to a successful
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A White Guy posted:Do the allies have a limited number of APs? Currently, yes. By 1945, Allied xAK/xAPs are effectively infinite, it's just a matter of having enough in the right place at the right time.
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A White Guy posted:Do the allies have a limited number of APs? There is a limited number of everything, I think they start with
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The West Point has a capacity of for 7800 troops and 2500 cargo. Definitely something Grey wants to sink The Mount Vernon is a 6700 troop carrier with 2200 cargo. Wakefield has the same capacity as Mount Vernon. Dominion Monarch can carry 5800 troops and 1800 cargo. Basically, the transports Grey is hitting are some of the best transport ships the Allies have at the moment.
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Do Liberty Ships make an appearance? What's their troop/cargo capacity compared to a typical liner?
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Rexim posted:Do Liberty Ships make an appearance? What's their troop/cargo capacity compared to a typical liner? They'll start showing up in a few months but they're not really anything special. Very slow, long range, decent capacity.
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Rexim posted:Do Liberty Ships make an appearance? What's their troop/cargo capacity compared to a typical liner? The first Liberty Ship to appear in the game is the John C Fremont on Mar 1 1942. The Liberty Ships are all standardized to 6520 tons and are considered xAKs, so purely for hauling cargo around. The Allies get: 66 in 1942 265 in 1943 185 in 1944 253 in 1945 up to the historical V-J Day on Sep 2 another 28 after that and a last one on Feb 15 1946 For a total of 798 modeled in-game. Historically this was just 30% of all Liberty Ships built, with the rest going to the ETO and other theaters.
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Ahh, drat, the ships that I claimed for previous IJN games have already been claimed - Aoba and Maya. First come first serve, I guess  . In that case, I'd like the claim the Mogami class CA Kumano as my Lucky ship. Now to read over the thread and make sure she hasn't been sunk...
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 so, basically, Allied Shipping is effectively limitless during and after 1943.
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A White Guy posted:
Yep! So I'm going to be sinking lots and lots of ships! Its going to be glorious!
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Grey Hunter posted:Yep! Note how Grey doesn't specify which country will see their ships sunk.
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Grey Hunter posted:
So Changsha and then swinging around to Chungking? Won't trying to take enter Chungking from the south require entering its hex from across a river? Or will have them meet up with a Manchurian force already there that came by way of Sian?
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If Grey doesn't sink at least 20 CVEs he has lost.
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goatface posted:If Grey doesn't sink at least 20 CVEs he has lost. I didn't even know the Japanese got that many CVEs.
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TildeATH posted:I didn't even know the Japanese got that many CVEs. They didn't, which is why they lost!
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  Dammit, she's still alive.  This seems like overkill!  Today seems to be the day of subs chasing down their targets.   This force has been created to police up all those little islands.  Right, I'm not garrisoning these, so onto the next!  The Kido Butai seems to have forced most British planes into hiding – here we clean up a troop convoy.  I have joined in the bombing of ISIS. It seems to be the popular thing to do.  I love seeing these liners getting hit.  The allies are abandoning their bases!  We reduce the last fortifications – now for a couple of days rest before a shock attack to shatter them.  I need a few more forces here to overwhelm a much larger force.  [img]http://lpix.org/2320224/12].jpg[/img] We're kicking rear end out there – I'm sure this is going much better than last time!  If not for their subs, we'd not be losing any ships at all!
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Grey Hunter posted:
ok I'm used to a lot of the weirder ship designations but what on earth is a KV?
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shalafi4 posted:ok I'm used to a lot of the weirder ship designations but what on earth is a KV? Probably just a Soviet KV-1 that got lost.
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shalafi4 posted:ok I'm used to a lot of the weirder ship designations but what on earth is a KV? I believe KV means it's a corvette.
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shalafi4 posted:ok I'm used to a lot of the weirder ship designations but what on earth is a KV? K as a designation for corvette was retired prior to WW2 but who knows what bizarre exceptions exist in this game or indeed in the reality it represents.
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Grey Hunter posted:
It's now my headcanon that all your work over the last decade has been building up to this one joke. shalafi4 posted:ok I'm used to a lot of the weirder ship designations but what on earth is a KV? KV is a corvette, typically a warship smaller than a frigate, but larger than a coastal patrol or fast attack craft. Corvettes range between 500 to 2000 tons. The HMS Thyme specifically part of the Flower-class of 940 ton corvettes, notable for being figuratively press-ganged into being ocean-going guardians for escort-starved convoys during the Battle of the Atlantic despite their diminutive size.
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gradenko_2000 posted:Ship stuff You and everyone else who throw out these little tidbits are doing God's work.
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Iirc aren't the flower class the only things flagged as corvettes in the game?
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Probably. They're tiny little things, but not really anything else.
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Also for some reason a whole bunch of Canadian Flower class corvettes which historically only ever saw service on Atlantic convoy duty show up in British Columbia in the game, which is weird to me given how exacting it is with the accuracy of other ships. e: Here's the ship at hand, the HMS Thyme (K210) which was historically launched in October of 1941 and competed her first convoy run in November from Halifax to Liverpool before transferring to the Indian Ocean  I'm honestly impressed at the accuracy of your pilots that they were able to hit it so many times, and it was brand new! All that fresh paint at the bottom of the harbour. Generation Internet fucked around with this message at 05:09 on Jan 3, 2016 |
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People posted:KV is a corvette designation yea that's what I wondered but hadn't seen KV anywhere before  It being the corvette designation makes sense though I guess
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Ikasuhito posted:You and everyone else who throw out these little tidbits are doing God's work. For the last thread, I posted a big dump of info from the game manual for all the ship designations. The complete list with commentary for what each type actually means can be found on this Google Spreadsheet, in case Grey Hunter wants to put it in the OP or Jobbo_Fett in his third post like last time: https://docs.google.com/spreadsheet/ccc?key=0AjMTZZbe1060dE91VHM3SVYtNndWSkJIbkxydlJVOFE&usp=sharing And the shortened list without more detailed description: code:
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Drone posted:For the last thread, I posted a big dump of info from the game manual for all the ship designations. The complete list with commentary for what each type actually means can be found on this Google Spreadsheet, in case Grey Hunter wants to put it in the OP or Jobbo_Fett in his third post like last time: https://docs.google.com/spreadsheet/ccc?key=0AjMTZZbe1060dE91VHM3SVYtNndWSkJIbkxydlJVOFE&usp=sharing Edited into my post, I'll create a 3rd spreadsheet for it as well. For quicker reference. Double-thanks!
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