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goatface posted:Those coastal gunners are pretty good at their jobs. Well done them. So far, Coastal Defence guns have accounted for 9.3% of all sunk ships. Torpedos: 23.7% Bombs: 42.4% Although, this is off my curated list which doesn't include every ship claimed by intelligence as "sunk"
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   We continue to work Bataan over.   Our Buna forces are bombed again.  These guys are doing a bang up job of chasing down all those convoys.  Okay, maybe its time to rest these guys by then, I hope more troops will have moved up and we can move on to Singapore. This is going to slow my advance compared to my Allied game, but this is because I abandoned the city while the AI is reinforcing it, so while this step will take longer, there will be less troops to deal with once we take the city.   Here we are going to have to rest as well, but we are still doing more damage than we are taking.  We are still advancing in other areas.  I need to move some troops to engage this force.   Not much to comment on here.  The guns here are powerful it seems.
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16,000 feet is still way too high to be bombing. Those are the kind of altitudes that the B-17 would bomb from.Otherwise, good ground game so far. You might get to Ichang by June at this rate.
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Feb 6, 2016 14:18
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Grey Hunter posted:
120mm isn't that big, destroyer sized really, probably without all the fancy automation of QF guns, but possibly actual naval artillery in static mounts. They seem to be good at using them. I assume the units could just be coded in as well trained?
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  That's another nice AP, and this one is loaded with troops.  My raiding group of cruisers finally finds some targets its not much, but three confirmed kills are a good start to the day.  And their not done yet!   Clunk! Mwah ha ha!  The captain of the Snapper makes another attack and misses, then just goes Sod it and attacks with deck guns.  Its really not his day!  So this is where they have been hiding their fighters!  This is our daily losses at Bataan. It makes attacking look attractive to deal some back.  The commanders at Changsha can sense victory, and continue to attack I assumed they would automatically pause. Apparently not! [img]http://lpix.org/2351016/9].jpg[/img] Our forces force a river crossing.  I need to start pushing forward, we've not taken a base in days.  A nice number of ship kills today!
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Feb 6, 2016 18:36
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British Sailor wasn't a very big tanker. Surprised she's worth that many points.
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Feb 6, 2016 18:48
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goatface posted:British Sailor wasn't a very big tanker. Surprised she's worth that many points. The smallest tankers the Allies start with are valued at 4 VP, but that quickly jumps to 12 and 15 for the 5190 and 6650 capacity, respectively. Some of the largest tankers are worth a whopping 31 VP, like the TK Mobilfuel. The TK Esso Richmond is worth 29. Good catches if they ended up sinking in the end.
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Feb 6, 2016 19:52
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Unsurprisingly, Grey kills a British Sailor.
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  We hit Bataan again.  We bring down a Banshee.  I have to hope this is what I'm doing to Bataan, we're just to high to see the results.  I keep forgetting to mention it, but the enemy have some very accurate and large guns here, and we are taking some losses.  We will win here soon, then its onto rest mode for these guys!  Fresh troops have reached Bataan! We will be able to attack again tomorrow in an attempt to bring the enemy to their knees. Cue a large butchers bill.  This is the result of those guns I mentioned.  The jokes are back!
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Feb 7, 2016 18:49
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Grey Hunter posted:I have to hope this is what I'm doing to Bataan, we're just to high to see the results. Bomb height has nothing to do with whether you see results from that bombing in your combat replay. If you're not seeing the results, there simply aren't any. You've got to drop those planes down below 15,000 ft, preferably lower. Otherwise, all you're doing is fatiguing your pilots and putting stress on your airframes that lead to ops losses for absolutely no gain.
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paradigmblue posted:Bomb height has nothing to do with whether you see results from that bombing in your combat replay. Even if you could see results by being closer to the ground, its important to note that you're trying to bomb infantry, in the jungle, from 15,000ft + which is really really drat hard to do. 4500 meters (15,000 feet) is way too drat high for the lovely bombs that the Japanese planes get, being as small as 50kg bombs at times. If its not 50kg, either as the main or supplementary bombs, you usually have 250kg's or the odd 500kg, and usually only one of those 500kg's. My advice: Drop the bombing altitude to between 5000 and 7000 feet.
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If you're too high to see results, you are also too high to see your target! You kinda want to see your target so you can aim.
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It's a jungle. They might not see their target at treetop.
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goatface posted:It's a jungle. They might not see their target at treetop. Bomb accuracy drops off the higher you are, and I have never seen a book talk about their bombsight quality (which is a shame).
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Feb 7, 2016 21:07
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The Permit lives yessssssss
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Grey, is the KB still in for refit? Curious what those carriers are up to.
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paradigmblue posted:Bomb height has nothing to do with whether you see results from that bombing in your combat replay. It's so cute how everyone tries to give Grey advice. Even though we know he never listens. Even after 4+ years of playing the same game 
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Veloxyll posted:It's so cute how everyone tries to give Grey advice. Every time Grey bombs something from orbit, I like to imagine some poor rice farmer screaming in terror as bombs start landing in his fields.
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Feb 8, 2016 05:40
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Veloxyll posted:It's so cute how everyone tries to give Grey advice. Hey I listen to everything. There is just a time lag of up to a week from when I start listening. I have a buffer. Then things don't happen every day, so even after I make a change, it take a while to see the effects.
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Grey Hunter posted:Hey I listen to everything. There is just a time lag of up to a week from when I start listening. I have a buffer. That's totally reasonable, but if you don't reply or acknowledge that people have said something, they tend to assume you missed it or something. Because sometimes you do miss what someone posts, so... yeah, I'm not complaining mind you, but if you don't want like ten people to keep saying the same thing over and over, a single post like this one saying "ah, cool thanks for pointing that out" will stave off a lot of ongoing hand-wringing from the peanut gallery. 
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But hand wringing is what we ~do~. Also I don't think increasing Grey's workload is ultimately a great plan.
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I feel like that would rob us of one of the great mysteries of life - just what is Grey up to?
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Cartoon posted:But hand wringing is what we ~do~. Also I don't think increasing Grey's workload is ultimately a great plan. I think your forgetting that making Grey's life more difficult is also another thing we do.
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Leperflesh posted:That's totally reasonable, but if you don't reply or acknowledge that people have said something, they tend to assume you missed it or something. Because sometimes you do miss what someone posts, so... yeah, I'm not complaining mind you, but if you don't want like ten people to keep saying the same thing over and over, a single post like this one saying "ah, cool thanks for pointing that out" will stave off a lot of ongoing hand-wringing from the peanut gallery. I'll try and remember to do that. The only reason I don't is that there is a time lag from when I read something, to when I do the next turn, to when the turn is posted. I often forget - although I try and comment more when I do something. Its also hard to remember MY timeline to the posted one..... Ikasuhito posted:I think your forgetting that making Grey's life more difficult is also another thing we do. Thats part of the fun! Just wait until the end of the month when I plan on doing a rundown of the industry. I don't even know where I've screwed up!
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Grey Hunter posted:Its also hard to remember MY timeline to the posted one..... Do you keep notes to yourself from session to session so that you remember what your plans were? I find that's basically a requirement when playing WitP. Edit: also I found this pretty cool thing on Youtube that shows roughly how the fronts changed in the Pacific theater on a day-by-day basis, if anyone wants to keep track of how Grey's doing (a cursory look says he's pretty much on-schedule with how the Japanese did IRL, with the exception of being slightly ahead in the Port Moresby area of New Guinea and having much more activity in China, one of Grey's real strong suits judging by the last LP and this one so far). Unfortunately this video is very much [citation needed], but it's probably good enough for a general idea. Things that we can hopefully look forward to in the coming weeks: the invasion of Sumatra and the opening of the Burma front. https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=6_1rzp2YVxQ Drone fucked around with this message at 09:43 on Feb 8, 2016 |
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Two cities getting nuked, and Russia Declaring War on you? You're gonna have a bad time
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So how long does Grey have before the oil facilities are destroyed?
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Jobbo_Fett posted:Even if you could see results by being closer to the ground, its important to note that you're trying to bomb infantry, in the jungle, from 15,000ft + which is really really drat hard to do. Worked nicely at the Cavite Naval Base. Bombed from above 20.000 feet. The P-40's didn't make it up.
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fredleander posted:Worked nicely at the Cavite Naval Base. Bombed from above 20.000 feet. The P-40's didn't make it up. Attacking a naval base is very different from attacking soldiers in the jungle.
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Jobbo_Fett posted:Attacking a naval base is very different from attacking soldiers in the jungle. Fred has a good point though - airfields and/or clear terrain allow you to still get results at higher altitudes.
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So how's the economy doing? And the aircraft production/R&D?
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paradigmblue posted:Fred has a good point though - airfields and/or clear terrain allow you to still get results at higher altitudes. Which is why I specifically mention jungle/bad terrain. Even with good terrain or vs. installations, higher altitudes might provide results, but a lower altitude will give better results. The difference being that lower altitudes are more dangerous.
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   The Americans finally take action against our subs.  Buna is attacked again today.  We hit Johore once more they are close to breaking now.  Our reinforcements are up, so the end of Bataan is in sight. Its still going to be bloody.  We also take a southern base.  Troops have reached the coast, time to clean up here.  Hopefully our roadblocks will resolve soon, and we can begin to move on it really does take a long time to move troops up!  That god damned 120.
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Drone posted:Unfortunately this video is very much [citation needed], but it's probably good enough for a general idea. This is pretty cool. For some reason I always thought the Allied counterpush down in the Solomon islands started a lot earlier than it did. I knew Guadalcanal ran from mid~late 42 into early 43 and I had always thought it was a push continuing directly from that. Not starting until almost a year later.
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Grey Hunter posted:That god damned 120. That's a different one. The Dutch must have had a lot of them if they were using them for coastal batteries all over. I assume Bofors or Krupp in battery of two or three, naval-type fixed guns, ~5 metre long barrels, 10-15km range, 5-10 rounds a minute. Good poo poo to blow transports up with.
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Slightly unrelated but has anyone else sniggered that the tech advance in Civ V to get submarines is refrigeration?
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Cartoon posted:Slightly unrelated but has anyone else sniggered that the tech advance in Civ V to get submarines is refrigeration? Look, man, that ice cream machine was goddamn necessary.
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Night10194 posted:Look, man, that ice cream machine was goddamn necessary. It hasn't always been Refrigeration! It's Mass Production in Civ 1, Combustion in Civ 2, Mass Production again in Civ 3, Radio in Civ 4, Chemistry in Beyond Earth, and Electricity in Revolutions.
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Grey Hunter posted:
Boy, that was a real Banzai attack....more like that and you shall need more reinforcements....
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