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Why are those cruisers not being submerged by the sheer weight of bombs delivered by land-based aircraft? They're not that far out.
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You mean the Hokkaido training squadrons?
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WE WANNA SEE THE YAMATO IN ACTIOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOON!!!
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Is it too late to claim CA Portland as my lucky ship? I might actually remember that one.
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steinrokkan posted:You mean the Hokkaido training squadrons? There's no training like live fire.
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Grey does realize that Batavia was the capital of the DEI, right? Soerabaya was just a large city with a major naval base.
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Surabaya is more strategically important, though.
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markus_cz posted:So is this the Dwarf Fortress of war games? Nah, the DF dev can and will admit problems in the simulation and work to fix them ("I think I made the carp too hardcore"). I don't really see these devs do it.
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Either those cruiser and destroyer captains are horribly lost or they have huge balls. Either way that was highly entertaining to see.
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Omobono posted:Nah, the DF dev can and will admit problems in the simulation and work to fix them ("I think I made the carp too hardcore"). I don't really see these devs do it.
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NGDBSS posted:Wait, how do you make a carp "too hardcore"? Given the reputation of DF I know it's possible, but what happened in the game in this case? Carp are constantly swimming. Swimming gets them EXP in swimming which makes them more hardcore and tough. If a dwarf falls in carp infested water poo poo is going down.
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Grey Hunter posted:the Yamato. I think you've got this.
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They used to aggressively bite dwarves who were fishing or just collecting water, drag them into the river and drown them.
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NGDBSS posted:Wait, how do you make a carp "too hardcore"? Given the reputation of DF I know it's possible, but what happened in the game in this case? Besides the problem of dwarves panicking over them, falling in the water, and drowning, carp (and all fish) in 40d versions of Dwarf Fortress were overpowered for two reasons: 1. The basic bite attack was as powerful as a dwarf punch for a given amount of strength. 2. Every skill increase boosted all stats, and there was no skill cap. Fish swim constantly, and thus constantly gain Swimming skill. THis caused their strength to rise stratoscopically. More recent versions cap skill growth and restrict what stats each skill boosts.
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Gnoman posted:Besides the problem of dwarves panicking over them, falling in the water, and drowning, carp (and all fish) in 40d versions of Dwarf Fortress were overpowered for two reasons:
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Gnoman posted:stratoscopically Grey Hunter, do you see this? We need you to step up your game.
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Doesn't japan get massive bonuses if allies land on home islands? And is where those ships are the home islands?
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It's two cruisers and a destroyer, they're not landing on anything, unless there's also an undiscovered transport fleet behind them. They are just in an incredibly strange position. I'm actually mildly amused that the final remnant of Task Force Z is somehow here, with some US cruisers, rather than the Indian Ocean. Anyways, given just how close they are, might as well unleash Yamato - maybe she'll actually accomplish something in this war. It's not like she'll have to sail particularly far either, so at least the fuel issues regarding sortieing her hopefully won't be quite so bad. edit: Actually, where is Yamato currently docked in this LP? She spent most of the real war in Kure, which is actually absurdly far away from where that TF is. They're up at the very north tip of Hokkaido, and Kure near the southern tip of Honshu. Lord Koth fucked around with this message at 06:34 on Jun 24, 2016 |
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The Dwarves were attacking them by fishing. And not technically either. I'm no evil vegetarian but I wouldn't want to die by a flesh-hook tug of war followed by brief asphyxiation and a merciful clubbing. Let's see the Yamato do something useful. Even in the WiF thread so far all it did was sortie and get cockslapped back to port damaged, on its first skirmish. RA Rx fucked around with this message at 08:21 on Jun 24, 2016 |
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Yeah, the Yamato is to far away to respond, but I'll move into the area. AI ships tend to hang around for a while.
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BREAKING: Britain votes to leave ABDACOM, future of Malay barrier in doubt
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Grumio posted:BREAKING: Britain votes to leave ABDACOM, future of Malay barrier in doubt I can only assume that this immediately preceded the conception of this timeline's Nigel Farage
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   Morning!  I think the carriers are back at Singapore.   drat you!   We gun down more planes over Rangoon.  Akyab is now ours. Calcutta is in sight, but with the RAF in force, its going to hard to move further north.   That's a strategic base in our hands, and some nice losses inflicted on the enemy air forces. Its been a bad month for our ships. 
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So at what point do the Brits get a doomstack in India analogous to the one the US gets if Japan invades the West Coast?
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AceRimmer posted:So at what point do the Brits get a doomstack in India analogous to the one the US gets if Japan invades the West Coast? http://witp-ae.wikia.com/wiki/Emergency_Reinforcements According to this it's Delhi.
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Really, really far west, because lol, Empire in India.
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AceRimmer posted:So at what point do the Brits get a doomstack in India analogous to the one the US gets if Japan invades the West Coast? If you get all the way to Karachi.
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Was that oiler really unescorted, or did the cruiser just manage to isolate it somehow
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Also because Britain didn't really have the capacity to free up and move that many troops back round to India. I would think that the doomstack when it does turn up is made up of some special type of light Indian infantry?
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I imagine it depends when? Presumably it's the Brits forgoing the invasion of Italy, and instead shipping all of those forces East.
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Yes, it's like a lava lamp.
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Dreamsicle posted:http://witp-ae.wikia.com/wiki/Emergency_Reinforcements According to this, you can invade Canada without repercussions. Please take out Vancouver TIA
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Yeah I can see Japan landing on one of the Aleutians without triggering the Third Army but there's no way the US would take an invasion of, I don't know, anything on the mainland anywhere east or south of some point out past Anchorage without flipping the gently caress out and deploying an army to squash them. Heaven knows what the partisans would have been like, too. (We do have some historical precedent in the Battle of Attu, but that was the furthest out and the Americans satisfied themselves with a 5:1 response...) David Corbett fucked around with this message at 20:01 on Jun 24, 2016 |
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Worth noting that it's not Delhi itself but a line of hexes across India that are one hex south of Delhi. Also for Canada, invading Victoria will trigger the reinforcements, so it's not purely borders, but rather another hex line basically.
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David Corbett posted:Yeah I can see Japan landing on one of the Aleutians without triggering the Third Army but there's no way the US would take an invasion of, I don't know, anything on the mainland anywhere east or south of some point out past Anchorage without flipping the gently caress out and deploying an army to squash them. Heaven knows what the partisans would have been like, too. And there was a frantic effort already underway to build the Alaska highway, specifically in case they needed to move serious numbers of troops into Alaska. Notably the route wasn't surveyed beforehand; at times the surveyors were only a week or so ahead of the construction crews.
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Also note that if you land in Canada, even if the US doesn't spawn gobs of free dudes, they still have gobs of dudes and bombers and poo poo in north america to come kick your super-extended Japanese foothold to pieces.
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According to some theories landing at Los Angeles will automatically and permanently knock out the aircraft industry concentrated there, and thus would be worth virtually any sacrifice.
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According to wiki, the 3rd army redeployed to the UK in december 1943. Does it still spawn on the West Coast if the Japanese player manages to land after that date?
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Have any of you actually managed to invade the mainland as Japan in this game? or taken the Hawaiian islands?
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MrMojok posted:Have any of you actually managed to invade the mainland as Japan in this game? or taken the Hawaiian islands? It's very feasible to invade mainland Japan in this game as the Allies. Usually the northernmost island. The AI isn't very good at repulsing you once you get a foothold. In Grey's last aborted attempt at the Imperial Edition, I ran an experiment to settle the urban legend of exactly what the US spawns when Japan lands there. pthighs posted:A large convoy slips from its moorings in the Truk lagoon before dawn on
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