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Kemper Boyd posted:Shattered Sword taught me one thing: never split the Kido Butai. You're gonna get Midwayed if you detach carriers from it, GH. WitP has taught me that against the AI you should detach carriers and go berserk around the busy lanes south of the Bismarck Archipelago.
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That's true if you're playing against a human, but the ai is dumb enough that you can get away with it.
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Kemper Boyd posted:Shattered Sword taught me one thing: never split the Kido Butai. You're gonna get Midwayed if you detach carriers from it, GH. As long as all are in the same hex they'll be fine. If you put all 6 of em in the same task force you'll get severe ops penalties. I'm not sure on details though.
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I bet Gry won't be able to take Singapore before Summer, since the game doesn't register a lack of supplies.
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Grey Hunter posted:
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   I strip the Battleships from the Kiddo Butai and send them out on their own. Its the armoured cruisers that find a target though. They bring her down with little trouble.  60kg Bombs are not going to do all that much.  There are a lot of damaged, but not sunk Royal Navy ships sailing around – We also hit the Wrong Enterprise again.  This at least tells me where the enemy are keeping some of their planes.  The men at Port Moresby are low on supplies and dealing with heavy forts – but at least these are mostly disabled squads.   A good day here – their losses are actually higher than ours!   Not much to report on here, we're still making headway in Java, but waiting on the marching as normal.  The Allied Navies are having a bad few weeks, and I like it.
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Apr 25, 2016 06:12
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Moresby looks way heavily fortified, hopefully not with those Australian divisions that are some of the best in the game 
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Apr 25, 2016 07:10
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I'm going to tell myself the Furutaka got the Louisville and that my Lucky Ship is a hero. 
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  We have another go at sinking the Wrong Enterprise. We do sink the Decoy though!  The target rich environment seems to be drying up.  That's a decent sized AP.  Another wave of troops break against the walls of Singapore, but we are wearing them down – this now needs to be a war of attrition.   We attack at Moulmien again, to the south, you can see the reinforcements coming in.  18 Operational losses? Looks like we took out a ship with a squadron aboard.  Dead Decoy. No more jokes there.
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Apr 25, 2016 19:58
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I'll do one last low-effort joke. It was just a Decoy to draw fire away from the Enterprise 
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Apr 25, 2016 20:05
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Since I didn't see this thread posted at first, I just now binge read it over two days Grey. ....Why haven't you tried to purge Entiewok yet?
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Right Enterprise is just biding its time.
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bunnyofdoom posted:Since I didn't see this thread posted at first, I just now binge read it over two days Grey. He needs more political points to refit Tokyo Bay Fortress for the trip.
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  The Battleships find their targets, but the battle is inconclusive, although we do leave on enemy ship burning.  We send our planes out to follow up the strike.  Some of these ships have to sink at some point.  We continue to pile on the bombs. This is a massive concentration of Naval power really.  Fresh troops arrive at Moulmien.  So, did any of those ships go down?  That's one more strike – if its right of course.
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Apr 26, 2016 19:50
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Hopefully the AI will repeat this shitstorm all over again with its fleet carriers instead. Though by that time we may be on the losing side of the exchange.
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Apr 26, 2016 23:06
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Grey are you flying carrier ops out of coastal hexes again? Don't.
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Apr 26, 2016 23:21
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Yay, I finally see my lucky ship (BB Fuso)! Was wondering what those BB's have been up to the whole war.
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  The skirmishes continue in the Java sea.  We savage the HMS Cornwall.  Its not even safe on the other side on Java.  Looks like the Boise is still around – for now.  Even if we can't sink most of these, the Allied ship yards are going to be crammed for months after this.  He ain't no fortunate son.  We launch another attack on Singapore.  We have defiantly turned the corner here.  We have the forces to take Moulmein now.  We got a good number of hits in today.  So, one of our ships just went and sunk it seems.
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Apr 28, 2016 07:29
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After the relative lull of March, it's great to take the fight to the enemy again
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quote:We have defiantly turned the corner here. Well at least no one can accuse the IJA of being timid 
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Apr 28, 2016 11:11
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Maybe it was the first time a mark 14 torpedo exploded and nobody knew that could happen?
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Apr 28, 2016 12:54
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You sink the maury. Now who will tell me who my babydaddy is?
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   Luganville continues to be bombed.  The British Battleships are still around!  We pile on the hits.  Two oilers? Very nice.  We continue to push at Singapore.  We push back an enemy unit, but they have marched troops back into Batavia, before out own men can catch up.  The day has arrived! The enemy take massive casualties. We shall now rest up and reorganise our units before marching on.  There is a bloody day of fighting north of Hankow as we try and stop even more enemy troops from reaching the city.  Fighting continues at Moulmien.  Taking Changsha with the damage entailed causes a 325 point jump in our direction. Shame we have no enemy ships reported sunk.
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Apr 28, 2016 17:46
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Need to get a nice magazine hit on those battleships.
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Apr 28, 2016 18:02
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goatface posted:Need to get a nice magazine hit on those battleships. Or torpedoes. I'd imagine battleships are pretty resistant to dive-bomber attack. Might put them in drydock for a while, but I doubt either is in danger of sinking.
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On the other hand, I imagine there's a better chance of bombs actually exploding inside the ship instead of going right through them with battleships.
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Apr 28, 2016 18:10
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It looks like 100% of the attacks on those battleships and cruiser formations are coming from carrier-based planes, even though there's an airstrip right there in Semarang. Is it too small or out of supplies or something? Getting some ground-based torpedo sorties going would spare the expensive carrier sorties, not to mention the irreplaceable high-quality carrier pilots.
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I can't remember in what specific scenario I did this but I kept bombing the Yamato in harbor over and over. For whatever reason I didn't have torpedos, but none of the bombs would ever penetrate. Eventually the ship was still afloat with 99 systems damage. They probably won't sink, but he can slow them down to a floating husk on the water that will be easy prey for a sub or surface ship.
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So why are all our hits bomb hits? I'm not seeing any torpedo bombing going down.
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Night10194 posted:So why are all our hits bomb hits? I'm not seeing any torpedo bombing going down. At longer ranges torpedo bombers have to carry lighter bombs instead. Also, the game tracks torpedoes individually, the the carrier may well be out. Bombs you get for free.
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Where there are oilers, there are usually carriers.
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Zeroisanumber posted:Where there are oilers, there are usually carriers.  Run, Big E, run!
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Send in the Betties!
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Hm, the Betties seem to have been awfully quiet, haven!t they.
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loving ouch at those Singapore casualties.
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Zeroisanumber posted:Where there are oilers, there are usually carriers. Or, you know, a battleship squadron that got scrambled. Losing Oilers still HURTS, mind you.
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steinrokkan posted:Hm, the Betties seem to have been awfully quiet, haven!t they. That's because he forgot to upgrade them. They're all biplanes right now.
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Losing oilers? Did I stumble into an NHL thread? Heyyo! Anyways what HMCS ships are unclaimed? Also grey do me a favour and shell a lighthouse on Vancouver Island for me and the spirit summoning virgin in 24 Sussex.
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bunnyofdoom posted:Losing oilers? Did I stumble into an NHL thread? Heyyo! Literally all of them except KV Vancouver, I believe.
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Why the hell is Grey at Luganville if he isn't putting land based air th… oh. Right.
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