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Grey Hunter posted:
It will be back to Forts 1 tomorrow.
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Those torpedoes were overkill for everything they sank.
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Mar 21, 2016 18:32
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Palembang should be pretty easy now, but Batavia is not going to fall without a substantial amount of support. Maybe if Singers falls soon, you can ship much-needed reinforcements from there down to Java. Also real glad to see the Kido Butai hitting some targets of substance, even if they were horribly inefficient about it. Would mounting an air raid on Soerabaja be possible/beneficial? As an Allied player I usually turn that into a pretty major naval base in the early game.
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Mar 21, 2016 18:32
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I don't think Grey brought enough for Singapore....
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Mar 21, 2016 18:34
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What are you supposed to ignore while you put 100,000 men attacking Singapore? It's silly.
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Mar 21, 2016 18:41
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goatface posted:What are you supposed to ignore while you put 100,000 men attacking Singapore? It's silly. Ideally you want to get to it early and not let it reinforce, more or less as in real life. And the fortress and fortress guns are sort of facing the harbour (which is where the actual city is) but they could still fire at invaders. wikipedia posted:It is a commonly repeated misconception that Singapore's famous large-calibre coastal guns were ineffective against the Japanese because they were designed to face south to defend the harbour against naval attack and could not be turned round to face north. In fact, most of the guns could be turned, and were indeed fired at the invaders. However, the guns—which included one battery of three 15 in (380 mm) weapons and one with two 15 in (380 mm) guns—were supplied mostly with armour-piercing (AP) shells and few high explosive (HE) shells. AP shells were designed to penetrate the hulls of heavily armoured warships and were mostly ineffective against infantry targets.[41][42] Military analysts later estimated that if the guns had been well supplied with HE shells the Japanese attackers would have suffered heavy casualties, but the invasion would not have been prevented by this means alone. Also IRL it's been defended by ~80000 men, although a fair amount of them were mostly untrained colonial troops and with horrible leadership. It's not inconceivable they could've held out for longer. And of course, it does happen to be a hilly jungle island. Private Speech fucked around with this message at 19:44 on Mar 21, 2016 |
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Mar 21, 2016 19:26
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RIP Trenton. Here she is in some sick dazzle camouflage:
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Mar 21, 2016 19:57
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Grey Hunter posted:Ahh, who am I kidding, you guys only remember the times I screw up. But then again I also remember Iwo Jima and 10/28/44, where you lost 3 Essex carriers by forgetting to set CAP.
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Mar 21, 2016 22:41
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Private Speech posted:Ideally you want to get to it early and not let it reinforce, more or less as in real life. And the fortress and fortress guns are sort of facing the harbour (which is where the actual city is) but they could still fire at invaders. Singapore is the greatest highlight of the stupidity of the ground combat system - it fell easily in real life, but in game its a massive death trap you just can't ignore - I'm going to task more forces to the invasion, but they are not going to be able to help for weeks - they have to be shipped in, then march at a snails pace the eighty miles from Johore Batau to Singapore, because the game won't let me path to Mersing without going through the Singapore hex - and its minefield! Its bloody frustrating, that's what it is! I hidnsight, I should have landed everything at Johore and marched down form there, but we live and learn.
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Mar 22, 2016 08:41
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 Just going to leave this here to remind you how close the KB just came to losing part of its strength.
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Mar 22, 2016 08:51
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Court Martial the Captains of all those destroyers. They have ONE JOB.
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Mar 22, 2016 08:57
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Splode posted:Court Martial the Captains of all those destroyers. They have ONE JOB. hahaha "Admiral we can confirm that there is nothing no the ocean's surface." "What about below the surface?" *silence* *Destroyer captain quickly runs away and hops in waiting car which screeches away*
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Mar 22, 2016 09:22
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Reuben Sandwich posted:
Something that not a single US soldier who landed there in the greyverse can say. Because they're all dead
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Mar 22, 2016 09:26
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Veloxyll posted:
http://lparchive.org/War-in-the-Pacific/Update%2027/ quote:Everyone's favourite Dutch sub is back
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Mar 22, 2016 10:19
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Re-reading the original LP makes me tempted to play this monster again >.>
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Mar 22, 2016 10:48
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   The coastal guns at Batavia fire. They hit the smallest ships.  We continue to shoot down their air force.  We see some Hurricanes, and lose a named pilot, but we gun them down three to one – plus a bomber.  We lose a few more planes hitting Batavia, but we smash the enemy ships in the harbour.  The battle for Palembang continues to go well.  We are going to need to rest our troops at Batavia – but we have landed fresh troops to the south.  Hollandia and Madang fall to our forces.   So we're properly ashore in Java. Time to start ripping the place to pieces – I mean, securing the oil.  A lot of rubbish ships were sunk today. Grey Hunter fucked around with this message at 18:38 on Mar 23, 2016 |
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Mar 23, 2016 06:00
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Whoa, that was fast. How damaged is Palembang?
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Mar 23, 2016 09:18
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Great job Grey, nice to see some gains and the KB back in action. If only we could get Singapore out of the way now.
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Mar 23, 2016 10:07
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Would be good if the KB could go and do CAS over Singapore, but I don't think the Japanese even had CAS doctrine at this point.
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Mar 23, 2016 13:52
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Did Grey skip the 22nd?
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Mar 23, 2016 14:56
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Duckaerobics posted:Did Grey skip the 22nd? Yes he did. Mikl posted:Ooooooo, time travel! Spooky!
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Mar 23, 2016 15:15
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Sorry - I'm a bit distracted atm - the wife is now less than two weeks from her due date, and work is crazy. I'm sorted turn wise until the end of the month, so I'll get cover sorted. I'm just burning the candle at both ends and paying for it.
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Mar 23, 2016 15:25
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Can't wait for the SOVIET RESPONSE. (Best of luck to you and Mrs. Hunter, Grey!)
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Mar 23, 2016 15:31
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Drone posted:SOVIET RESPONSE. Thread now has a nickname for GH's baby.
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Mar 23, 2016 15:51
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HMS Warspite if it's a girl.
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Mar 23, 2016 18:06
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  We hit another ship of Port Moresby.  We gun down some more Allied planes.  A dead swordfish is good!  We, meanwhile, blast some enemy ships from existence!  Their not worth much, but they are better than nothing!  There! That will keep someone happy at least.  We now have a proper foothold.  We now need to march north and support the attack here. Although the Allies are doing a good job of throwing troops away.  The Invasion of Java is going well so far.  While we are losing a few ships to the shore bombardment, they have all been small, fragile ships.
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Mar 23, 2016 18:38
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The British have pretty low replacement pools of Swordfish, don't they? If so, shooting down only one out of the two they seem to be throwing each sortie must be punishing for them, given those biplanes are their only real shot at torpedoing your ships from the air this early on.
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Mar 23, 2016 21:51
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Please promise me "Grigsby" will be in the baby's name somewhere. Best of luck!
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Mar 24, 2016 00:42
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Most of the Swordfish made were ASW jobs for cheap and easy ("aircraft carrier" becomes a much wider class when you take off at about 55 knots) merchant defence. Dunno if they'd even be built yet.
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Mar 24, 2016 00:56
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goatface posted:Most of the Swordfish made were ASW jobs for cheap and easy ("aircraft carrier" becomes a much wider class when you take off at about 55 knots) merchant defence. Dunno if they'd even be built yet. That's plenty fast enough when you're hunting U-boats that go at 20 knots protecting convoys that go at 10 knots. With no enemy aircraft to worry about. Gives pilots time to enjoy their tea while lining up their shots.
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pthighs posted:Please promise me "Grigsby" will be in the baby's name somewhere. "I hereby gradenko_2000 fucked around with this message at 04:43 on Mar 24, 2016 |
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Mar 24, 2016 04:40
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Blade
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gradenko_2000 posted:"I hereby This is (hopefully) where someone intervenes before Grey smashes a bottle of champagne over the poor infant. 
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Mar 24, 2016 06:43
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Does a grognard become a grogdad or a dadnard
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Mar 24, 2016 08:09
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pthighs posted:Please promise me "Grigsby" will be in the baby's name somewhere. He's gonna aim for the Americanized "Gray Hunter" and end up with "Gary Hunter" for the other half.
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Mar 24, 2016 08:23
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I can see some unfortunate problems with a name like Gary Grigsby's Jane Grey.
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Mar 24, 2016 08:50
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Grey: Carefully sets CAP over crib every night Frau Jaeger: wtf
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Mar 24, 2016 09:17
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TBF literally setting CAP over the crib with a baby mobile of F4F Wildcats, Zeros, Avengers, Bettys and whatnot would be awesome. EDIT: 
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  We are reloading troops to support the Java invasion, the enemy get a hit in on one of those ships.  We attack a couple of Royal Navy ships in Soerabaja, but the flak is to heavy – our carriers are running low on fuel and sorties, and are returning to Truk to replenish.  We hit Batavia again, we can win here, it will just take some time.   This force on the coast just won't give up!  A quiet day, now that the carriers are withdrawing. But were are still making some progress.  On more ship lost.
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