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Night10194 posted:At least it's down to 3, and most of what Grey lost was disabled. Yeah, there is no way to take /bataan beyond a bloodbath I'm afraid. The Sandman posted:So how's the economy doing? I'll show that at the end of the month.
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So what determines how intact the oil facilities on Sumatra are? I'm worried the longer Grey doesn't invade Sumatra, the more time the Dutch get to sabotage the facilities.
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Dreamsicle posted:So what determines how intact the oil facilities on Sumatra are? I'm worried the longer Grey doesn't invade Sumatra, the more time the Dutch get to sabotage the facilities. Generally it's the number of Engineer squads that are in the hex. When the attacker wins, they'll try to inflict damage on the facilities as a final gently caress-you before routing / surrendering.
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   Hey! That was supposed to be a dud!  Oh har de har har.  That's more of the supply road cut. Only Nanning remains before this force turns north,  The fighting at Amoy continues.  There are more defenders at Wenchow than expected.   Actual air combat! I'm not sure where the Allies are hiding all their planes, but its beginning to annoy/worry me.  Bataan continues to be brutal, but we are making some headway at least. I will rest now for a few days.   At least we know some planes are down in Buna.  Johore is now settled. I will need to rest my troops for a few days before advancing again however.   A day of brutal fighting across the theatre. We must advance again soon!  Oh come on! Make up your mind – do you have a Permit or not?
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Feb 9, 2016 18:06
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Third set of 120mm coastal guns. Are you actually landing at these places or are your captains just suicidal idiots?
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Feb 9, 2016 18:17
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What's the Kido Butai up to?
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Hopefully he's drawing down some of the supplies (not to mention troops) of the enemy by fighting in Johore. Maybe it will make things go a bit faster in Singapore?
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Night10194 posted:Look, man, that ice cream machine was goddamn necessary. Well ice cream did fulfill the dairy part of dietary requirements back then. Plus the servicemen liked ice cream enough that destroyers picking up downed carrier aircrew often got an ice cream bounty for it.
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Danann posted:Well ice cream did fulfill the dairy part of dietary requirements back then. Plus the servicemen liked ice cream enough that destroyers picking up downed carrier aircrew often got an ice cream bounty for it. I was in no way kidding. If I was going to be strapped into a steel coffin under the ocean with lovely non-functional torpedoes, I'd want ice cream and air conditioning, too. Plus, didn't the AC actually help prevent corrosion or something?
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Danann posted:Well ice cream did fulfill the dairy part of dietary requirements back then. Plus the servicemen liked ice cream enough that destroyers picking up downed carrier aircrew often got an ice cream bounty for it. Also, cooking in the Navy bloooows. The old joke is that the Navy has the best food in the world, till the cooks get a hold of it. You gotta keep morale up somehow.
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A White Guy posted:Also, cooking in the Navy bloooows. The old joke is that the Navy has the best food in the world, till the cooks get a hold of it. You gotta keep morale up somehow. Icecream is also significantly less likely to set a ship on fire.
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Night10194 posted:I was in no way kidding. If I was going to be strapped into a steel coffin under the ocean with lovely non-functional torpedoes, I'd want ice cream and air conditioning, too. Yes, the AC was put in place to prevent high humidity from wreaking havoc on the ship's equipment.
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gradenko_2000 posted:Yes, the AC was put in place to prevent high humidity from wreaking havoc on the ship's equipment. Not sure you're allowed to spell it that way in this thread. Keep it "wrecking" from here on out unless you want to get probated.
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   Clunk! Mwah ha ha!  I start a more aggressive sweep of Ilolio. But the Nates are spotted long before they get there.  This is the first raid my planes have made since I dropped all their altitudes to 10K. They still come in a bit high.  I think the range estimates are off. This is the first confirmed damage however!  The British hold one to Johore by their fingertips now.  Changsha shall fall soon as well, we take out some of the remaining forts.  At Amoy, we also have the major advantage.  A decent sized enemy force arrives at Taiyaun, but I've been watching it march up, and I've been able to provide what I hope will be a proper defence for the city.  We're basically just grinding them down in several key places now. I do have some good news however.  Their back! Ready for a comeback tour around the Dutch East Indies! Starting with the Singapore area!
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Grey Hunter posted:
Oh good. Were the KB even trained in CAS?
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What is the stacking limit for fleets? I want to say that you start getting penalties if you go above 16 ships per task force but maybe I am wrong.
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Feb 10, 2016 19:07
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Time to return to Pearl and finish what was started!
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Goetta posted:What is the stacking limit for fleets? I want to say that you start getting penalties if you go above 16 ships per task force but maybe I am wrong. You can put 25 ships in a combat fleet. For a Japanese Air Combat task force, you get an air coordination penalty if there are greater than 200 + (random number between 1 and 200) planes in your task force. I seem to remember that there is a bit of a penalty for surface combat task forces after 15 ships or so, but I can't find where that is, and it doesn't apply in this case anyways.
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pthighs posted:You can put 25 ships in a combat fleet. For a Japanese Air Combat task force, you get an air coordination penalty if there are greater than 200 + (random number between 1 and 200) planes in your task force. Is the air coordination limit the same for U. S carriers?
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pthighs posted:You can put 25 ships in a combat fleet. For a Japanese Air Combat task force, you get an air coordination penalty if there are greater than 200 + (random number between 1 and 200) planes in your task force. Ok, thanks. Would the surface combat penalty apply in this case to fighting off sub attacks? Or is it just actual surface fights from the surface combat task?
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Dreamsicle posted:Is the air coordination limit the same for U. S carriers? It changes over time for the Goetta posted:Ok, thanks. Would the surface combat penalty apply in this case to fighting off sub attacks? Or is it just actual surface fights from the surface combat task? I don't think so. Sub attacks are difficult against CV task forces due to their high speed. Otherwise, the number of ASW escorts, the number and quality of their weapons/sensors, and the experience of sub and escort crews will play a role. In practice a sub has to get lucky enough to get ahead of a CV task force and gets one torpedo spread. After that it can't keep up. pthighs fucked around with this message at 23:12 on Feb 10, 2016 |
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So how many op losses have you taken in return for 5 casualties bombing the jungle in Bataan?
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whitewhale posted:Time to return to Pearl and not gently caress it up this time!
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i81icu812 posted:So how many op losses have you taken in return for 5 casualties bombing the jungle in Bataan? Going by the last 5 days of the reports, he's lost 11 or so planes to OPS. Even a generous 50% of that total, considering all other aircraft/flights on the map that are active, puts it at very negligible.
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So I finally got around to giving the sunk ship "database" a bit of an overhaul, filling in missed blanks, putting in more info... Turns out I gave biosterous a dead ship!  So uhhh... if you're reading this, sorry! On the good side, its not like there's a limit to how many times you can claim a ship!
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Dawncloack posted:If we can already get lucky ships I want the IJN Kitakami please You might want to have a word with Woodchip.
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Aw poo poo, late every time.
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Ikasuhito posted:Time to return to Pearl and not gently caress it up this time! Well, he didn't gently caress up Pearl Harbor the first time he went there either, if you get my drift
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gradenko_2000 posted:Well, he didn't gently caress up Pearl Harbor the first time he went there either, if you get my drift  How many days of bombing in game would it take to get a "historical" level of damage at Pearl? Seems like every time I see a WitP game opening the first raid isn't nearly as painful as it could be (should be?).
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Thankfully WitP has a December 8th scenario that gives you the historical result, but it seems to not be terribly popular for LP's or AAR's.
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Davin Valkri posted:
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  A supply convoy comes under attack, they score no hits however.  I hope you all crash on the way home.  Oh come on, break!  We do take a base in Borneo.  Make that two.  More actual damage!  I'm going to call off these Nate's, they are outclassed. I was hoping they would all go in at once.  Instead, they go in a few at a time.  Time to rest again at Bataan.  Thousands more die at Changsha, the battle is all but decided here.  We shatter another force. This must be making it hard to replace losses in China.  Its still bloody out there, but at least its mostly bloody in our favour. They are down to 9AV in Jahore, so its literally any day now.
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Dawncloack posted:Aw poo poo, late every time. We can both root for the Queen of Torps together
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Isn't there a thing where every Chinese squad that dies gets instantly replaced? Is there a point to beating up the Chinese? Actually, for that matter, is it really the best strategy to fight on all these dozen of little fronts at once? I mean, obviously that's how it happened historically, but couldn't the player ignore all the dozens of little islands and concentrate all those forces to like, conquer Hawaii or something?
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