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Wow, she finally got you to do it, eh!? You won't regret it man. Someone's gotta keep LPing forever. Thirtyeight thousand years from now, there will only be the grim dark future, and the Overlord of all LPers... --- But seriously. God Bless!
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Congratulations Grey!
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Apr 7, 2016 15:39
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You acquired a baby and you sank a stores ship on the same day. You lucky man.
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Apr 7, 2016 16:29
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Cythereal posted:Yes, among others including the US. It's a popular trend in wealthy, industrialized countries investing in their navies to incorporate low-observability technology and design principles in their latest ships, has been for the past twenty years or so. However, there is a difference between low-observability designs and dedicated stealth ships like the Sea Shadow - the Sea Shadow was estimated to have a crew of about twelve, and was little more than a mobile missile launcher that was exceedingly difficult to detect. What about a stealth-sub with drone launch and retrieval capacity?
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My Imaginary GF posted:What about a stealth-sub with drone launch and retrieval capacity? I approve of any mad plan that involves modern I-400s. 
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Apr 7, 2016 17:00
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^^^ as long as it isn't the crazy Arpeggio ones.  ^^^
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Apr 7, 2016 17:17
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   We hit the beaches at Milne bay.  We see wave after wave of planes coming in to attack our ships.  It only gets bloody when the Banshees arrive.  Then it does get bloody.  After days of trying, the Dutch finally get a bomb hit. drat them.  Batavia holds out for another day.  Our tanks drive deeper into Sumatra.   We're stalling out a little again – but hopefully we can get enough men ashore overnight at Milne to take the base.  Bloody Banshees.
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Apr 7, 2016 18:04
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goatface posted:You acquired a baby and you sank a stores ship on the same day. You lucky man. Acquired makes it sound so easy. I've had four hours of sleep in the last three days now.
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Apr 7, 2016 18:06
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Just ask your unit doctor for some stimulants.
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Grey Hunter posted:Acquired makes it sound so easy. I've had four hours of sleep in the last three days now. And now you get to acquire the Grey part of your name in a literal sense 
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Apr 7, 2016 22:21
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Apr 7, 2016 23:22
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Congratulations GH - you are going to have a lot of night-time combat reports coming up.
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Apr 7, 2016 23:43
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I miss a day and this happens. Congrats GH!
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Apr 8, 2016 03:42
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Congrats. Don't death-star your only child by mistake and you'll be a great dad!
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pthighs posted:
haha
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pthighs posted:
Shouldn't the Baby Hunter also have leadership(+) and experience(-) ? And I hope Grey have morale(+). Congratulations Grey on the baby! It will be horrible at times, but it is very much worth it.
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Apr 8, 2016 07:58
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pthighs posted:
This made me laugh our loud and nearly wake the croctopod!
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Dunno-Lars posted:Shouldn't the Baby Hunter also have leadership(+) and experience(-) ? Also forts reduced to 0. Also quote:Congratulations Grey on the baby! It will be horrible almost all the time.
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TildeATH posted:Congratulations Grey on the baby! It will be horrible almost all the time. Until approximately age 3. Then again at age 13, or so I've heard.
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   Clunk! Mwah ha ha!  ****Insert manic laughter here.****  We push another force north.  We also retake Nanyang.  Our ships at Milne Bay unload troops like crazy, getting as many ashore as possible before the Banshees arrive.  I will admit, I forgot the Banshees were here, we've not seen them for a while. This is a bloody day.  We need to rest up and break the forts here, but I think we can take the base.  Yeah, we lost a couple of ships today.  Yay!
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That's a lot of transports lost.
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Shimrra Jamaane posted:That's a lot of transports lost. the troops can swim, right?
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Apr 9, 2016 17:25
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No. Swimming is bad luck.
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Apr 9, 2016 17:28
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  A dud is followed by a live fish. My ship losses seem to not be letting up.  The deck gun is enough.  We run into a large force near Naning. This is the greatest Chinese threat to the now peaceful south.   With balls of steal, the captain of the I-15 slams a torpedo into a destroyer. He takes some damage from the destroyers angry friends – I was so expecting this to miss I actually missed a good screenshot in surprise!  So of course, the captain obliges me and goes back to finish the job.   The I-175 tries to torpedo the cruiser Helena – it misses. The destroyers then hit her with a depth charge, forcing her to surface, at which point, two battleships and multiple destroyers open up on here – she is hit by AA guns and a 53mm, but it takes a long time to finish her. During that time, the Captain manages to get a hit in on the Idaho! I wish I'd videoed this. Apparently my Sub captains are on fire!  Fresh troops arrive at Batavia, but somehow the defenders continue to hold out!  We are able to cut Java in two however.  Well, that was a heroic day! Last stands and brave sub captains.  No sign of the battleship, but I wouldn't expect it with one torp – but we know two are on the move, and one will have had turned back. There is still no sign of the American or British carriers.  Fresh troops for Singapore have arrived – now they just have to march up. Singapore itself has just got a load of fresh artillery to help soften it up.
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Apr 9, 2016 17:45
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The Helena was a pretty neat ship. Kinda glad you didn't manage to kill her.
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Apr 9, 2016 17:51
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Grey Hunter posted:
A true samurai 
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Apr 9, 2016 19:46
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Reminds me of the historical actions where Allied shis basically hurled themselves against surfaced subs to sink them. Except in those cases there were no battleships.
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steinrokkan posted:Reminds me of the historical actions where Allied shis basically hurled themselves against surfaced subs to sink them. Except in those cases there were no battleships. Wait, like some captains actually went "gently caress you sub and gently caress your torpedoes; all crew ramming speed motherfuckers!  "?
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Apr 9, 2016 22:30
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Yes. Surface warships take damage a hell of a lot better than subs, it's almost always a good trade.
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Destroyers had hardened bows, I think, and ramming a sub is pretty much the best way to be sure about sinking it.
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Plek posted:Destroyers had hardened bows, I think, and ramming a sub is pretty much the best way to be sure about sinking it. Yup. More than a few submarines by various nations have been sunk since their invention by surface ships ramming them, intentionally or otherwise. Some of the latter never even realized they'd collided with a submarine.
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Cythereal posted:Yup. More than a few submarines by various nations have been sunk since their invention by surface ships ramming them, intentionally or otherwise. Some of the latter never even realized they'd collided with a submarine. This is one of the possible fates of the Surcouf, amazing ridiculous french submersible cruiser/professional bad idea.
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Darn, there was a Japanese submarine which caused several ships to suffer critical structural damage simply be surfacing and presenting itself as a target to destroyers thinking they could easily sink it by ramming. It happened in the Indian Ocean, for some reason I can't find any references right now, but I'm sure I haven't hallucinated that incident.
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Apr 9, 2016 22:57
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i had that happen to me in silent hunter III 
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ramming is a legitimate strategy!
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Veloxyll posted:ramming is a legitimate strategy! Yes, yes it is. https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=PFN9nvFYHmk
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In one of my first runs through SH4, I discovered that clicking pretty much anywhere on the screen when in the command rooms blows your ballast. I came up under a destroyer. I went right back down again.
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Night10194 posted:This is one of the possible fates of the Surcouf, amazing ridiculous french submersible cruiser/professional bad idea.
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Submarines also took some pretty silly amounts of damage and still somehow didn't sink. In Hara's autobiography, he recorded an instance wherein he apparently saw a man smoking a stog on a surfaced submarine (which the diesels of WW2 had to do at night to recharge their batteries), and immediately swivelled his guns around. Two salvos, at least three hits, and that particular sub didn't sink. A thin-skinned pressured hulled vessel, took three hits from 5 inch guns and still somehow didn't sink  .
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gradenko_2000 posted:Is the Surcouf modeled in this game? Has a player ever managed to do something cool with it, like maybe beat the Tone in a gun duel? I believe it sank before Dec 7 1941, so unfortunately it isn't.
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