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   Dammit! Working torps today!   The RAF lose more planes in Burma.   We destroy those thrice dammed coastal guns! This base is not worth much, but it had a lot of troops in it.   A quiet day, the DEI is pretty quiet now I've mostly taken Java, and I need to think about moving the planes there up to support the attack on India.  Two more ships go down. Less maintenance costs this way you see.
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See, this time no one can accuse me of wasting warships - in fact, my losses in shipping has been very low compared to the last game!
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Grey Hunter posted:See, this time no one can accuse me of wasting warships - in fact, my losses in shipping has been very low compared to the last game! Yes, but this time you were supposed to sink the Royal Navy.
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They won't come out and play! We've seen exactly one us carrier. Hence the midway ploy.
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It's been a very dull WW2 so far. The Allies have just kind of let you have the DEI, virtually uncontested. Singapore was a hell of a fight, but aside from that inconclusive sea battle near Sri Lanka, neither side has inflicted any devastating losses on the other. About the only thing firmly established so far is that Royal Navy capital ships are invulnerable to 250 KG AP bombs. So what's next Grey? What's the next big play?
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I'm honestly wondering what the Allies are even doing right now. They've sustained far fewer losses than they really should have, and have done absolutely nothing with that advantage besides take a tiny insignificant island in the Kuril chain. Edit: the Battle of Midway was supposed to happen 5 weeks ago, and we haven't seen anything remotely like it in this game. I have a feeling the US Pacific Fleet having a luau in Hawaii.
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A White Guy posted:It's been a very dull WW2 so far. The Allies have just kind of let you have the DEI, virtually uncontested. Singapore was a hell of a fight, but aside from that inconclusive sea battle near Sri Lanka, neither side has inflicted any devastating losses on the other. About the only thing firmly established so far is that Royal Navy capital ships are invulnerable to 250 KG AP bombs. Midway I think, lets see if we can get them to come play with us. I'm going to have to have a look around to find an airbase I can move into the area - that way we can put torpedo armed ground craft down on Midway after we take it. The plan is actually scarily close to the original one - come in with the carriers and a heavy attack force, take the island and then put bombers on it. Wait for the Americans to retaliate and have a carrier destroying showdown. The main differences is that my carrier force will be at full strength - at least in ships, I may have to disband a load of smaller squadrons across the pacific to get the planes needed to restock the carriers, but those planes are not doing much to begin with! I'm also going to push into India - but I may well need to bring a lot more planes up to support that. Basically, its going to be the crippling lack of frames that slows me down, but not much else!
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will you be baiting with the Carriers like at Midway or are you going to try and draw their fighters in with expendable battleships instead?
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Grey Hunter posted:Midway I think, lets see if we can get them to come play with us. I'm going to have to have a look around to find an airbase I can move into the area - that way we can put torpedo armed ground craft down on Midway after we take it. How's your industry doing? Since thats another thing you have to worry about as Japan.
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Jul 15, 2016 13:07
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The US cap ships aren't to be seen because they transferred all their best gunnery officers to the DEI coastal batteries.
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Jul 15, 2016 13:42
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goatface posted:The US cap ships aren't to be seen because they transferred all their best gunnery officers to the DEI coastal batteries. A bold move that seems to be working out.
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Jul 15, 2016 14:43
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They really enjoy working with the historic guns.
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Jul 15, 2016 14:45
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  Coastal guns.....  A little more of Java becomes ours.  Its a dull day in the air, with this being the most combat we see.  The good thing about quiet days is that it gives my air pools time to replenish – this is always going to be a pain for Japan, as we can never produce enough of anything!
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Honestly at this point in the war you should be swimming in Oscar and Zeroes and have Tojo's coming online soon. The allies haven't yet started getting decent numbers of fighters to contest the air. How many planes of various sorts are you producing a month anyway?
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2 Allied ships sighted near Yokahama/Yokusuka? Is that just a BS scout report?
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Yes, it's like a lava lamp.
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I just saw this in a second hand store for 75 Eurocents and that seemed like a good deal: https://www.amazon.com/Big-Story-Enterprise-Bluejacket-Books/dp/1557509980
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PittTheElder posted:2 Allied ships sighted near Yokahama/Yokusuka? It's the Doolittle Raid.
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PittTheElder posted:2 Allied ships sighted near Yokahama/Yokusuka? Reports in light blue are pretty much always bullshit, usually the result of paranoid recon/naval search pilots.
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  This is inconclusive, but Its afternoon already and I'm getting worried that I'll have nothing to talk about today.  Finally! Some action!  This is turning into a fairly decent day in Burma.   Reinforcements cross a river and shock attack, but at least we can start reducing this last pocket of resistance in the south of China.  A nice day in the air.  We pick up two destroyer kills. A quick question for the experts, I've changed production on some factories, but the don't seem to be producing anything. I have 500 engines in stock, but nothing is coming out the other end. Any ideas?
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Grey Hunter posted:Any ideas? Put the engines on the remains of your transport fleet, they need all the help they can get in their ongoing War Between the Transports and Coastal Defense Guns.
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Jul 16, 2016 18:46
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Those 500 engines should be enough to get the Tokyo Bay Fortress underway and show those pesky CD guns who's boss.
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Well specific planes need specific engines. Have you set the factories to repair = yes? When you change the type of a factory it is 100% damaged and needs to repair back up to function again which costs 1000 supply per point so is very expensive.
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  We continue to take uncontested islands, this time we stray into enemy bomber range.  A little more of Java falls. This is the largest enemy troop concentration left.  The RAF keep coming in in small numbers.  We keep taking a few of them out.  Another base taken!
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  The Burma air war continues.  This is good training for the pilots.  We continue to work on this pocket.  Not much to say today, the air war continue to go in our favour.
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Jul 18, 2016 17:39
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What's going on at Chungking? Has the earth risen up and swallowed the IJA whole?
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Decoy Badger posted:What's going on at Chungking? Has the earth risen up and swallowed the IJA whole? Daily bombardments that are doing nothing - both sides are slowly building up but its not very interesting.
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  Burma is the only interesting point of the war at this time.  The RAF continues to send in more planes.  This is a good day for us.  Once the KB is fixed up, I think I'll try for Midway....  We get two legacy ships.
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Grey is closing in on the 2x score threshold. Is that going to unlock an auto-victory when he gets there?
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Peanut3141 posted:Grey is closing in on the 2x score threshold. Is that going to unlock an auto-victory when he gets there? The 2x auto-victory threshold is for 1945 (it's 3x in '44, 4x in '43, and not available in '42), so he'll need to hold onto his lead until then. In order to get 4x the Allies' score, you'd need to add nearly the entirety of Australia or India to the Co-Prosperity Sphere while inflicting quite a bit more damage than you take in shipping, planes, and troops.
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  Dive for the last time you bastard.  We take down another Blenhem.  We continue to take down this force.  We continue to move on. I start looking for planes to fill the carriers.
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Does the Ai just not have the programming to realise that sending those unescorted bombers in Burma will do nothing more than get them killed? Or is there some sort of remote chance they could slip through and make the constant attempts worth it.
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Slippery42 posted:The 2x auto-victory threshold is for 1945 (it's 3x in '44, 4x in '43, and not available in '42), so he'll need to hold onto his lead until then. In order to get 4x the Allies' score, you'd need to add nearly the entirety of Australia or India to the Co-Prosperity Sphere while inflicting quite a bit more damage than you take in shipping, planes, and troops. Ah, then we're a lot further off from an auto victory we can point to when the actual situation begins to blow up in our face.
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Peanut3141 posted:Ah, then we're a lot further off from an auto victory we can point to when the actual situation begins to blow up in our face. To get auto victory in 43 (the only realistic chance), you have to take at least one ahistorical theatre without losing anything significant. No surprise army fights where you get smashed unexpectedly by the American marines, no Midways (reverse Midways are good), no bleeding yourself dry on Fortress Singapore or Fortress Palembang, no getting horribly mauled in the air war. Your losses have to be under 4:1, basically. The problem is if you invade India the Allies are going to have a lot of troops there as it's easy to ship things in and supply them, and if you invade Australia there are Allied reinforcements. So those directly counter you.
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  Its only a single kill, but its still a kill.  We take another base and wipe out the defenders.  You take one out, and another makes a kill.  Our tanks overrun another Javan base.  I order a shock attack to speed things up.  Two more bases fall to our forces and the Allies take some heavy casualties.  Another destroyer is destroyed.
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Is it ever worth it to build up Chinese cities to boost base points?
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  Its really dull in the air at the moment.  On one hand, it means I'm losing less planes, on the other, the Allies stockpiles are going to be massive.  One unit failed to retreat yesterday, we destroy them today.  There is a lot of planning going on in the background for the attack on Midway. But not much fighting at the moment.  A nice oiler is added to our tally.
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Decoy Badger posted:Is it ever worth it to build up Chinese cities to boost base points? Well, technically there's no reason why Chinese cities should be inferior to glorious Japanese bases - but most Chinese facilities are extremely landlocked, which is a drawback because you can't manage over-land resouce distribution - and the further a base is from the ocean, the more likely it is something will go wrong. So it's just more expedient to transport stuff to your existing manufacturing base. Also transporting supply to Glorious Nippon will make it available to aircraft factories, reducing the risk of them running out of resources. In short: Chinese, Korean, Burmese... logistics depend on the incredibly sketchy overland supply system. Japanese logistics can be controlled by the player, making them vastly superior.
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The enemy death fleet will turn up soon enough, once a Dilbert takes to the skies. Remember, don't be a Dilbert. Don't kill your friends.
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