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Drone posted:Grey, how long does your average turn last? In terms of setting orders and whatnot. This is the one period in the war when using that oil can actually be productive.
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Drone posted:Grey, how long does your average turn last? In terms of setting orders and whatnot. A turn takes about 15-45 mins, depending on how much I'm doing - and the big ships are sitting in port mostly - Anywhere I can find Allied shipping reliably is somewhere they will have air cover, so I'm being careful with them for now - I will be moving some down for the invasion for Suva though! It doesn't help that the AI is being pretty cagey atm - I need them to come out and fight! In my game September was when I started hitting back hard, so lets see if the AI can get some assaults going!
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Grey Hunter posted:I'm 100% sure the AI "cheats" when it comes to recon - you miss stuff all the time, but the AI always seems to be able to make runs at anything you put in the sea. Right now scientists they are experimenting with "learning" AIs, which learn how to play a game simply by trial and error by watching the information displayed on the screen, without access to the game's code. It would be interesting to pit such an AI versus a human player.
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After some time to let AI learn it'd be boring. Look at how many errors are caused by small details and AI would be amazing at that. Search patterns, supplies, setting up groups and squadrons... Look how many ships GH has lost by losing track of some group.
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   Oh hey, they still have planes at Port Moresby.  This is your daily carrier location report.   There is not much my boys can do about this.   A dull-ish day, but at least it's sexy graph time!  We do confirm a good kill though!   So we're still on a completely different scale points wise, but as you can see, as the Allied player, I was starting my bounce back here, while the AI still has to take a couple more punches from me.  I've taken slightly more bases than the AI, and I'm still on the offensive.  Its been a pretty static month overall.  In the air, we are keeping parity with the Allies. While this may not seem like much, its better than last time!  Also, now I've sorted the upgrade thing, I have planes in my pools! I need to do a check of what's in service/due an upgrade soon though.  My ground war is still being extremely effective.  That's a squadron of aces there.  I lost 46 ships this month, and sank 21 (confirmed).  One of them was a carrier though! Lets add a second one!
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Huh, ship point losses roughly kept parity this month. Akyab has really hurt (to the tune of over half a carrier). Good month elsewhere though!
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What's going on at Cox's Bazaar? Still slogging up to retake it?
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   I need to get some fighters up here!  I'm pretty sure my fighters just run in this case. I don't blame them!  We find (and miss) a destroyer hiding from our forces.  Their level bombers have a go.  The victim continues to hang around in a area we can report its movements. Please be the Enterprise.  We are creeping closer to our target. Ships are allow all across the sea, we should see a burst of activity later on in the month!  Look, Intelligence – there is no need to make me feel better by making things up!
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Grey Hunter posted:Their level bombers have ftfy But seriously, what are the likely scenarios if a bomb from one of those level bombers happens to hit one of our big floating airfields? I assume a fair amount of time spent on repairs at the very least, right?
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About how long you estimate till your own carriers are in range to engage then if you had an idea for how long before htey hit the area ready for a fight?
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Sep 3, 2016 08:45
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Whatever happened to the old Chungking gambit? Is it just a grinding slog?
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Fuligin posted:Whatever happened to the old Chungking gambit? Is it just a grinding slog? Grey found a hell of a lot more Chinese defenders than he was ready for, then the Chinese managed to cut his supply lines to Chungking, and now he's quietly pretending he didn't lose a couple of infantry corps.
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Friend Commuter posted:Grey found a hell of a lot more Chinese defenders than he was ready for, then the Chinese managed to cut his supply lines to Chungking, and now he's quietly pretending he didn't lose a couple of infantry corps. That or a whole lot of waiting has happened and neither side has attacked the other for a while.
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Grey looks to be a day or two out from intercepting that American carrier.
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Fuligin posted:Whatever happened to the old Chungking gambit? Is it just a grinding slog? The plan turned into just sitting there to interdict the flow of supplies from Chunking to the rest of China which seems to have worked considering how out-of-supply most of the other Chinese armies are.
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RZApublican posted:The plan turned into just sitting there to interdict the flow of supplies from Chunking to the rest of China which seems to have worked considering how out-of-supply most of the other Chinese armies are. Aren't the Chinese armies always out of supply in this game?
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Just binge read though this in the span of a week. the level of insane detail here is amazing. Here I go thinking War Plan Pacific was considered a grognard game... I'd like to claim the USS Pennsylvania if she's still afloat and not claimed by someone else yet (ship database says no).
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Friend Commuter posted:Aren't the Chinese armies always out of supply in this game? Yeah but now they're like... EXTRA out of supplies.
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What's going on in the South Pacific? You still hellbent on invading Fiji?
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  I need to remember to cancel this!  The Akyab runway is today's target.  Attacks are also made on the latest supply convoy.  We have the AV advantage here, but the fortifications mean it would be suicide to attack.  There is nothing we can do about Akyab, for now – troops are marching to retake it.  Stay where I can find you.....  Unfortunately, the allied commander is also getting daily reports of our position.  I can almost taste that carrier!  Soooonn.
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Sep 4, 2016 05:44
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You tease. I bet you don't even have anything in Chungking anymore.
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Grey Hunter posted:
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dublish posted:You tease. I bet you don't even have anything in Chungking anymore. they are still there - 2k AV tieing down 4k of Chinese troops.
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Grey Hunter posted:they are still there - 2k AV tieing down 4k of Chinese troops. Any plan of getting more troops there, or are they doomed to perish?
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Jesenjin posted:Any plan of getting more troops there, or are they doomed to perish? they still have the fortress, air cover and can't retreat. All they can do now is die as the emperor demands.
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Grey Hunter posted:they still have the fortress, air cover and can't retreat. And now I am imagining space chaplain giving a prep talk to a group of space marines before fighting the Orkz.
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Jesenjin posted:And now I am imagining space chaplain giving a prep talk to a group of space marines before fighting the Orkz. In the grim darkness of 
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  Dammit!  We trade a couple of planes over Darwin.   We see some fuel cargo burning.  I fixed the planes – the men who were marching here cancelled their movement 75% of the way through, but I've not forgotten about China!  Oh hey, we finally get these guys to retreat.  Their bombers go after our troops in Chittagong.  Hmmm, which way to go to get that carrier – I know its in the area, but where?  We trade sub kills.
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A White Guy posted:What's going on in the South Pacific? You still hellbent on invading Fiji? He accidentally told the army to go to Fuji instead. The keys are, like, right next to each other, you know?
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Grey Hunter posted:It still boggles the mind that you have to order torpedoes, while bombs are automatically generated. Stupid UI and all that. Shut up Grey! Next patch they'll probably add a button to turn supplies into bombs that you have to click for each squadron. Anyone have any luck getting Admirals Edition to run properly at 4K? I'm still fighting with it. 
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  Well, a lot to say here. I think this is a new force, not the one we are hunting further west. These planes are from the Kiddo Butai, which I didn't quite have enough fuel to send out, Either way, those “obsolete biplanes” you guys are always going on about just crippled a CVE!  This is a bad showing!  The Kido Butai continues to make no contact with the other carrier task force.  They do waste planes going after some patrol boats though.  Well, did we get her?  No points, but its hard to see her surviving a hit like that.
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 The USS Long Island (CVE-1) was the first ever escort carrier of the United States Navy. Built on a cargo ship hull, she was commissioned in the summer of 1941 and initially used as an experimental ship to test the feasibility of flying aircraft off converted cargo ships. Apparently a lot of this data was very useful for the later production of escort carriers ("baby flattops") by the USN. Most of Long Island's activities during the war were pilot training stateside and ferrying aircraft, most notably carrying the first aircraft (19 Wildcats and 12 Dauntlesses) to Henderson Field on Guadalcanal in August 1942. She survived the war and was sold off in 1947, at which point she was converted into a passenger ship and served in this role until 1966, when she was purchased by Rotterdam University and used as a student hostel until finally being scrapped in 1977.  Long Island ferrying aircraft, a much more common role than actual combat operations. So here Grey has come out ahead of history by sinking a ship that historically survived--though, also, that historically was never really involved in combat operations.
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After following this thread for so long I wince every time I see someone in HOI4 deploy a BB battlegroup without air cover. Its horrifying to watch them set ships to patrol at random in range of land based air. So thank you for teaching me to fear torpedo bombers Grey.
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vyelkin posted:
I've always wondered how the planes on the edge don't just topple off whenever the sea gets choppy.
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Drone posted:I've always wondered how the planes on the edge don't just topple off whenever the sea gets choppy. Chocks and tie-downs  Note the tie-downs on each wing leading to the carrier "runway" Jobbo_Fett fucked around with this message at 05:49 on Sep 6, 2016 |
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Hopefully you don't have to manually order them to tie down the aircraft for rough weather in this game when you are ferrying aircraft.
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LLSix posted:After following this thread for so long I wince every time I see someone in HOI4 deploy a BB battlegroup without air cover. Its horrifying to watch them set ships to patrol at random in range of land based air. Do HoI4 have a proper naval damage model now? I remember as long as 1 HP was left on a ship it could be fully repaired in earlier games.
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sullat posted:Hopefully you don't have to manually order them to tie down the aircraft for rough weather in this game when you are ferrying aircraft. More than that you'd try to figure out why your carriers didn't send up and CAP and it turned out that they all got tied down 2 weeks ago and you never manually unclicked them.
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alex314 posted:Do HoI4 have a proper naval damage model now? I remember as long as 1 HP was left on a ship it could be fully repaired in earlier games. The only thing you need to know about HOI4 is it is fun as hell especially MP if you have friends.
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One torpedo is probably not enough to sink the Long Island, especially with Allied damage control. Hopefully tomorrow brings another successful torpedo strike or confirmation that the she's gone under the waves.
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