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Hiding for the first year or so are the smartest thing that the AI can do with its carriers since they are outnumbered and their planes suck. It would help Grey a lot in the future if he can lure a few out to sink before they show up in 1943 full of Hellcats flown by superhuman pilots.
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   Enemy bombers hit Rangoon.   15,000 bloody feet.   I'm concentrating to destroy this force, but they try an ill advised attack.   Things will be more interesting once the KB's are fixed up again.  Hmm, I saw no sub reports.
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Jul 24, 2016 05:14
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   Our subs are still in the Pearl Harbor area.  We have a good day here.   drat, this would have been a nice hit.  Take that you sub!  We take down another fighter.  This is still the only air combat in the area.  We smash up another small force.  The subs were really busy today, but not much else happened.
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Jul 24, 2016 16:09
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Does the AI ever sortie in response to enemies? It seems from previous discussion that there's a preset schedule for attacks and the AI just throws more and more ships into each attack as the war goes on.
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Jul 25, 2016 15:27
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Crap, missed a post - I'll get two up tonight. Babys screw with schedules. At least I've already proven I can do this once before.
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Jul 26, 2016 09:21
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Grey Hunter posted:Crap, missed a post - I'll get two up tonight. imo the fact that you even manage to update this thread at all with a babby and a job is pretty  . You do the Lord's work, Grey Hunter.
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Jul 26, 2016 12:15
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My favorite Baby trick is when they settle into a routine juuust long enough for you to get used to it, then completely change their sleeping hours.
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Jul 26, 2016 15:35
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I was at my niece's first birthday over the weekend. She was lovely, but I am glad I could give her back and go home to where it is quiet. I brought her a drum, because I am an excellent uncle. You are doing fine.
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Jul 26, 2016 15:57
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goatface posted:I brought her a drum, because I am an excellent uncle. One of two things will happen: 1. She'll ignore it 2. You'll never be invited again.
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Jul 26, 2016 16:11
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Considering everything you've got going on Grey, we're just grateful (and frankly, very surprised) for all you're doing. Hang in there!
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Jul 26, 2016 16:17
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Grey Hunter posted:Crap, missed a post - I'll get two up tonight. It's okay, nobody's reading this LP. We just use it as a convenient place to argue the efficacy of German armor.
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Jul 26, 2016 16:42
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TildeATH posted:It's okay, nobody's reading this LP.
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Jul 26, 2016 17:17
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alex314 posted:One of two things will happen: You should have seen the noisy things my mum bought her. We have a strong family tradition of loving with each other through the medium of birthday presents.
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Jul 26, 2016 17:18
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We gave my older nephew a toy drum (it opened up and was full of other cheapo instruments, yay) for his probably third or fourth birthday, and my sister let him have it for a while and then quietly made it disappear. I think her theory was that once the newness wears off and the toy winds up on a shelf for a while, kids below a certain age don't really notice when those toys just aren't there any more. My role as an uncle was supposed to be corrupting my sister's kids, but then they both wound up having serious emotional problems and I don't get to do that. 
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Jul 26, 2016 17:38
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  Subs continue to be active.  Wait! CARRIER! They actually sent out a carrier!  The RAF continue to squander bombers.  The lack of supplies is hurting the Chinese here. Once my main forces arrive, this will be a quick fight. I hope.  I need to respond to the enemy carrier.  Before this becomes worse.  Its five days to early – even three more days would give me three more ships.  This is a hard choice – all of these ships are low on planes, the ones under repair have been replenished first, and I made a rule never to split the KB – but there is an enemy carrier out there!  We have to at least try!
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   Clunk!  I try a bomber attack – it turns out to be a mistake.  Our planes come in in waves, rather than one big attack.  We do get some return kills however.  The American flattop moves deeper into the Dutch East Indies – we may have a chance of getting her on her return journey.  Until then, we just have to take this.  Owch, that was a lot more planes lost than I thought!  Carrier attacks hurt – thankfully, I've not had to be on the receiving end of many.
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Jul 26, 2016 18:10
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Get that carrier. Weird that the Allies are only sending out a single carrier like that. I'd never do a TF with less than 2.
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Jul 26, 2016 18:14
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20 planes. Anyone know when the first CVE arrives in theatre?
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It looks like you're sortie-ing out a small mixed fleet of fleet carriers and a CVE with only a slight numerical advantage compared to the Americans. Are you sure thats a good idea?
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Jul 26, 2016 18:39
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Where do you see how many planes your carriers in port currently have?
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Jul 26, 2016 18:47
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Ha ha ha, my lucky ship is safe in the harbour  It'll be her chance to shine once all our flattops are sunk by that single lone allied one 
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Jul 26, 2016 18:48
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On the one hand, IJN damage control. On the other hand, 1942 American carrier planes. Could turn ugly for both sides.
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Jul 26, 2016 18:49
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If it's the Long Island on her own, it shouldn't matter.
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Jul 26, 2016 18:57
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MrMojok posted:Where do you see how many planes your carriers in port currently have? You click on it.
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We've got a Battle of Coral Sea coming! Same kind of situation too with sending out a mini-KB.
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Does this game in any way represent the Japanese doctrine of not even considering moving surviving planes from one carrier to another after one is sunk & the other's planes are wiped out?
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Saint Celestine posted:It looks like you're sortie-ing out a small mixed fleet of fleet carriers and a CVE with only a slight numerical advantage compared to the Americans. Are you sure thats a good idea? The best thing is that Grey's reports are coming to us like the light of a dying star. By the time he reads this and can react to it, this event has faded into the past and now a new and completely unrelated Grey-brand Cockup is in progress. It's all very transcendental.
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wukkar posted:Does this game in any way represent the Japanese doctrine of not even considering moving surviving planes from one carrier to another after one is sunk & the other's planes are wiped out? It's the player's choice how they want to assign squadrons between carriers. You can move them around if you want to. One strategy is to put together a carrier with only fighter squadrons on it and let it handle all CAP duties for the task force, then other carriers in the TF have the normal loadout and have their fighters entirely on escort duty with no CAP responsibilities.
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Jul 26, 2016 19:32
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Sending a part of the KB south to deal with a small threat while planning to invade Midway, I can't see that going wrong.
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He's two months late. It'll be August by the time any of these elements engage. That said, the CVE/CVL group isn't very useful in a Midway-like battle.
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Pro music gift tip! Small metal tube xylophones. Give them to the relatives kids just as they are leaving for a long car journey. They are easily the loudest, piercingest, most annoying thing out there and are decently cheap ~  ~/~ Enemy carrier must be met with overwhelming force! Send out the Yamaoto and every destroyer too!
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Drone posted:Get that carrier. Multiple allied carriers in a hex interfere with each other. Gotta spread out those flat tops.
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Veloxyll posted:Multiple allied carriers in a hex interfere with each other. Gotta spread out those flat tops. I only thought it was a task force not hex. Splitting CVs by hex never had air groups link up the for me.
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Jul 27, 2016 06:34
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Everything I've read says COMMIT ALL THE CV's or NONE OF THE CV's. Don't do it! Send all or none!
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Jul 27, 2016 08:19
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I have a good feeling about this one. edit: I haven't said that in the Greyverse for a long time
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Jul 27, 2016 10:03
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Comstar posted:Everything I've read says COMMIT ALL THE CV's or NONE OF THE CV's. This is why I was so conflicted. In the end, I can't say no to the chance of some action after a rather dull month.
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This thread is full of defeatists! Of course brave IJN sailors and pilots will destroy the enemy! Saying otherwise is akin to treason!   
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I'm gonna laugh if that carrier is the Enterprise and it ends up murdering everything Grey sends after it.
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Grey has to attack the carrier you can't allow it to run rampant through your lines of advance, plus I want to see some sweet sweet carrier duels
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