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Drone posted:What you need is a Decisive Battle 4 at the moment! Its tight but I'm managing it - hence I'm only LPing this and playing a few games now and again - the RPG stuff happens after he's gone to bed and I can sneak the planning for that in at work.
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The Scene: Imperial High Command warroom, 10,000 leagues under Tokyo Bay Fortress The General consults at his to do list: 1. Look after baby 2. Fight war
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Oct 14, 2016 13:25
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   Another dull day in the air. This is a normal days attack, but I don't normally bother to show it.  It seems that the British troops are as worn down as we are.   I need to tell the commander here to stop and take a rest.   This was a futile attack, and only served to waste a massive 100 squads of Chinese reinforcements. I shall do a limited counter attack tomorrow.   A few good hits on attacking enemy units there, but at least I thought I should fill you in on the invasion of New Caledonia. We are currently building airfields at Ndeni and Luganville to support our attacks, this is taking some time, so its going to be a while before the invasion gets off the ground.  The plan is to now land at Koumac and march south, this lowers the chance of coastal guns ruining my invasion fleet.
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Oct 14, 2016 17:51
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Today's historical warship loss takes us back to the Atlantic, where the German raider Komet was sunk off Cap de la Hague on the Cotentin Peninsula in western Normandy by British and Norwegian light forces.
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Oct 14, 2016 19:28
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What do the green and red ships mean? Are those sightings of enemy ships?
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Oct 14, 2016 21:37
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Ron Jeremy posted:
Green is Allied, red is Japanese.
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Oct 14, 2016 21:43
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I'm afraid in the long term you will lose more ships trying to deliver supplies to New Caledonia just to keep the air cover up, while the Allies switch to a shipping lane further south with no ill effect to their situation
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Oct 14, 2016 22:07
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Maybe so, but Japan wins this game on points, and new caledonia is points.
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Oct 14, 2016 22:13
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New Caledonia is only worth as many points as there are bases, and that's not that much. Unless Grey tries to burn supplies on base building, which would mean pulling more freighters to serve in dangerous waters Really a better strategy would have been to focus all these smaller task forces to overthrow Port Moresby, which would be both more strategically valuable, harder for the Allies to take back, and less risky to keep supplied.
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Oct 14, 2016 22:16
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October 14, 1942 Eastern Front: A Russian relief force is reported to be within sight of Stalingrad. Guadalcanal: The Tokyo Night Express pays another visit to Henderson Field, destroying just over half of the available aircraft sitting on the ground. Another 4,000 men are dropped off at Tassafaronga, west of Lunga. New Guinea: The Australians attack Japanese positions in the mountains, but ends in a stalemate.
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Oct 14, 2016 23:13
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Can't Port Moresby be shut down by B-17s based out of Australia? Plus it has a really small port so unloading supplies takes a while.
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Oct 15, 2016 01:04
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HisMajestyBOB posted:Can't Port Moresby be shut down by B-17s based out of Australia? Once it's taken, it's relatively easy to keep in resupply through Buna. Troops just sitting around don't consume much supply. Fighters based at Buna can also inflict rather severe attrition on Allied bombers before the Allies get a decent escort plane.
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Oct 15, 2016 09:51
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   Oh look, I still do have subs!  The counter attack here does well, with a bit of rest I think we can make ground here.  We continue to hold here, but the rest of my troops are getting close to entering the city.  I hope the allies are planning something big, my own plans need airfields built first! Its also getting risky to raid with the carriers, as most places the Allies have left will have good air cover! 
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Oct 16, 2016 04:52
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Today's historical warship loss is destroyer USS Meredith, sunk by aircraft from Zuikaku near San Cristobal in the Solomons.
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Oct 16, 2016 06:07
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  We take some heavy losses in a bombing run.  There wasn't even any interesting ground combat today. But there is some news!  Hankow is now completely surrounded. I shall launch an attack tomorrow to begin wearing them down – it will be bloody, but its a necessary step.  American newspapers continue to confirm kills. We've not sunk much this month, but we've added 12 ships to the kill total for the loss of only one so far!
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Oct 16, 2016 18:15
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A very interesting book in the context of this LP http://www.goodreads.com/book/show/8608998-sunk quote:Sunk: The Story of the Japanese Submarine Fleet, 1941-1945 by Mochitsura Hashimoto, Edward L. Beach (Introduction)  moments. Like when during a night action and surrounded by enemy destroyers a lieutenant attempted to jump into a subs deck mounted patrol boat with a samari sword to continue the fight only to end up hanging onto the railing with one hand in the rough seas. 
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Oct 17, 2016 00:14
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16 October 1942 The Japanese destroyer Oboro is sunk by aircraft northeast of Kiska in the Aleutians.
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Oct 17, 2016 02:12
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October 15, 1942 The Japanese are certain that Henderson Field is out of action today, and attempt to prove this by landing troops on the island chain in broad daylight. Despite their presumptions, dive bombers are launched from a rough, but functional, runway. 3 transports are lost or stranded. The Japanese 17th Army draws up plans for a massive attack against US troops at Lunga, set to begin on the 18th. October 16, 1942 Aircraft launched from the Hornet carry out a raid on Rekata Bay, Santa Isabel, where they manage to destroy Japanese arms and ammunition depots near Tassafaronga. In preparation for the offensive on the 18th, Japanese artillery begins increases the intensity and, more importantly, the accuracy of their fire against US positions.
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Oct 17, 2016 02:27
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   Clunk!  BANZAI!  Okay, so that went as badly as expected. At least they will have a hard time replacing those losses.  Intel has something interesting. Is this the troops form Port Moresby being used offensively?  Lets send out the Kiddo Butai to find out. I sent the Kido Butai out on a raid a couple of days ago. But the Kiddo should be enough.  Screw it, go big or go home.  Yeah, that's a nice confirmation! Things could be getting interesting again!
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Oct 18, 2016 05:23
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15k lost. drat
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Oct 18, 2016 05:36
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Welp, lotta of crying pixelmothers tonight.
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Oct 18, 2016 06:15
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That 15k loss isn't nearly as bad as it seems, mostly disabled. The defenders are low on supply so just keep air bombing, bombarding and rest up and you'll take it soon enough.
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Oct 18, 2016 06:43
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Why is Hankow so important?
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Oct 18, 2016 09:59
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Comstar posted:Why is Hankow so important? It's behind the front and it's got a lot of Chinese soldiers in it, so Grey can't get away with ignoring it.
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Oct 18, 2016 11:34
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Yeah, I need to neutalize them or they could move south in a wave of communist terror.
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Oct 18, 2016 12:17
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That's a hell of a shitkicking to get with a 3k AV advantage. Should have shocked to banzai properly, obviously.
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Oct 18, 2016 18:45
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Grey Hunter posted:Yeah, I need to neutalize them or they could move south in a wave of communist terror. Can't you just surround them and starve them out? Or would that tie up too many pixelmen you need elsewhere?
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Oct 18, 2016 22:45
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The Chinese barely have any supplies even when they're not surrounded and cut off, so starving out the last little bit would have little effect, let them dig in more, and take time/pixelmans that would be better spent elsewhere.
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Oct 19, 2016 01:29
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isnt all of china out of supply due to the siege in Chongqing or wherever the capital is?
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Oct 19, 2016 01:57
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i81icu812 posted:isnt all of china out of supply due to the siege in Chongqing or wherever the capital is? No, supply is produced all over the place.
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Oct 19, 2016 02:13
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  We start the day by hitting a troop ship.  It looks like those ships we sighted yesterday have entered Milne bay. This may be a bad day for them.  They have a cruiser at least.  A hit at last!  Then the main attack goes in. This devastates them.  The afternoon attack continues the murder.  We're hit hard at Imphal – losses are pretty even, but they have better supply routes.  Well, lets see how many of those ships we're claiming for today! Their troop losses have jumped from 11,331 to 11,516 – so those were some densely packed ships!  Only four, but we have carriers – and Battleships – to hit them again tomorrow.
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Oct 19, 2016 06:07
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Congrats, hopefully that will lead to some nice kills. Is that a convoy or an attack force you think?
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Oct 19, 2016 06:24
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A good day
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Oct 19, 2016 06:57
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wedgekree posted:Congrats, hopefully that will lead to some nice kills. Is that a convoy or an attack force you think? From the troop loads, I think they are reinforcing Milne Bay with more troops as part of an offensive in the region. Shame I'm planning my own offensive in the area, and have a lot of assets on hand....
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Oct 19, 2016 07:50
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Half a battleship's worth of men and ships and more to come. Congrats!
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Oct 19, 2016 14:16
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A point is what, about a squad?
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Oct 19, 2016 19:48
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goatface posted:A point is what, about a squad? It depends. The point value of destroyed land unit devices depends on its nationality. 12 destroyed Filipino or Chinese squads = 1 point, 6 destroyed Soviet or Japanese squads = 1 point, and everyone else is 3 destroyed squads = 1 point.
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Oct 19, 2016 22:07
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A lot of dead pixelmen.
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Oct 19, 2016 22:30
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That's an odd point split. It that supposed to represent a fraction of available manpower? Or perhaps a fraction of the actual casualties suffered in OTL? Some sort of abstract tolerance for casualties in the various nations?
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The sheer quantities of automatic and anti-tank weapons that the allies begin throwing at their troops makes one squad have a lot more punch.
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