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RA Rx posted:If we're going to go to that detail I want to manage military police and prisoner of war camps, and nuts and bolt production in every factory. War in the Pacific Dwarf Fortress
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Ron Jeremy posted:War in the Pacific Dwarf Fortress
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   We actually get do be the attacker for once down here.  I'm still pulling the bombers out for now though.   Guess who remembered to manually refill his torps. Guess what, they get used even if you miss guys!   We advance north again, while losses are similar in numbers, they lose a lot more squads – and retreat in the direction we are advancing.  We pay the next step in the butchers bill here – there are 120,000 Chinese here, counting non combat squads, and I can't just ignore them.   20,000 dead in China, but so far, its been a relativity bloodless war.  Our brave destroyer reaches port before sinking. The crew survive.
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Grey Hunter posted:Our brave destroyer reaches port before sinking. The crew survive. Good. More replacements for Hankow.
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  Apparently we can't get to our destination through the net of cargo convoys. An unlucky torpedo hit as we turn away sinks our ship – but she did some damage. I'm going to try raiding south with something bigger now.  I forgot to move the bombers.  I do regret missing this oiler though!  I'm going to have to think about kicking off my offensive in the south soon – its going to be bloody, but I need to do something. I'll start loading in three days, that should give the last fuel convoy time to arrive an unload, I'm not as well up on fuel as I would like, but its better than nothing. Every convoy is now fuelled, but I have no real reserve.  You did well.
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Grey Hunter posted:
Are you bombing or bombarding the defenders here, to increase their disruption?
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Both. i just don't show it as its a boring daily routine.
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You know, it might take some extra time so it might not be worth it, but I'd be interested in a video update where you showed us what taking one turn was like.
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Leperflesh posted:You know, it might take some extra time so it might not be worth it, but I'd be interested in a video update where you showed us what taking one turn was like. Here you go. to look back on the first playthrough. But another video of this game, specially showing up the industry, would be really sweet.
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Grey, I'm worried that you haven't spent the requisite hundreds of hours gaming Japanese industry to maximize your airplane R&D. Please get your son on that ASAP.
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pthighs posted:Grey, I'm worried that you haven't spent the requisite hundreds of hours gaming Japanese industry to maximize your airplane R&D. Please get your son on that ASAP. Croctopod has enough to worry about - he got I've also decided to focus on giving him the skills needed to become the overlord of post-apocalypse Britain, as that's where we seem to be heading at the moment.
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Grey Hunter posted:Croctopod has enough to worry about - he got I'm loving the idea of a Grognard doomsday prepper. Hoard of gold melted into 3mm Napoleonic models and painted to disguise it...
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Grumio posted:I'm loving the idea of a Grognard doomsday prepper. Hoard of gold melted into 3mm Napoleonic models and painted to disguise it... God drat, that's loving genius. "Son: the money is in the army!" "Dad, what do you mean? You gave the money to the army?" "No, son, No! <cough, cough>. The money, the money is in Napoleon's Army! It's IN the ARMY!" <dies> "Aw, poor old dad. Lost his marbles in the end." <has estate sale, sells badly-painted 3mm soldiers to some kid for ten quid>
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Leperflesh posted:God drat, that's loving genius. "So I went out and enlisted. And you know, dad's a nutter, the pay is terrible." Behind him that kid drives by in his trumpmobile
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Wouldn't it be immediately obvious that a set of painted soldiers is made of gold instead of plastic, tin, pewter or lead by virtue of gold being much denser?
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Davin Valkri posted:Wouldn't it be immediately obvious that a set of painted soldiers is made of gold instead of plastic, tin, pewter or lead by virtue of gold being much denser? Gold and lead close enough in density that for thousands of years, alchemists were convinced it would be possible to turn one into the other, and many a counterfeiter used gold-painted or coated or encased lead to pass off bad coinage. Lead has a density of about 11.3 grams per cc Gold has a density of about 19.3 grams per cc That's different enough to easily tell the difference with a scale, but if you're hefting 3mm Napoleonic soldiers in your hand, you would very likely not notice the difference.
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Time for a mass historical warship loss update. 4 November 1942 Italian torpedo boat Centauro, sunk by aircraft at Benghazi. 6 November 1942 Italian minesweeper Selve (ex-Yugoslav Galeb), burned out by air attack at Benghazi. 8 November 1942 Numerous casualties in Operation Torch:
9 November 1942 RN corvette Gardenia, sunk in collision off Oran. RN minesweeper Cromer, mined off Mersa Matruh. 10 November 1942 RN destroyer Martin, torpedoed by U-431 off Algerian coast. RN sloop Ibis, torpedoed by Italian aircraft near Algiers. 11 November 1942 Back to the Pacific with Japanese AMC Hokoku Maru, sunk by gunfire of RIN minesweeper Bengal and Dutch tanker Ondina.
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Leperflesh posted:God drat, that's loving genius. / 
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OpenlyEvilJello posted:11 November 1942 Okay so this one is interesting, a tiny minesweepers and a tanker both armed with a single gun were attacked by two Japanese AMCs and managed to sink one and also survive the attack. http://www.netherlandsnavy.nl/battle_ondina.html
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Leperflesh posted:Gold and lead close enough in density that for thousands of years, alchemists were convinced it would be possible to turn one into the other, and many a counterfeiter used gold-painted or coated or encased lead to pass off bad coinage.
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  We start the day by killing another troop ship – does this mean that another wave of targets is steaming towards Milne bay?  We pick off another tanker.  I need to test the air support for the target area, so I try a bombing run.  The enemy continue their bombing campaign.  At Ndeni, the flak units finally arrive – these guys have been a month in the coming, and the Luganville teams are still a week or so out – but they make their presence felt immediately.  We now know the target area has a number of fighters, but not an insurmountable one. I'm still expecting heavy losses in the attack. I'm going to try some night bombing, but I expect the spies to tell the Allies and all these fighters be miraculously ready.  A good day for the ship reports though!
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I see a couple of rare birds, and what the hell are those Texans doing way out there?
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How many tankers do the Allies get? I know their more mundane transports (especially xAK's) are functionally infinite but are we appreciably affecting their ability to transport fuel by dropping all these big tankers and the odd oiler? Ditto for troops and the big liners we've sunk, too.
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Oilers - maybe. Tankers, well. They can ship fuel on regular cargo ships too.
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Ardeem posted:I see a couple of rare birds, and what the hell are those Texans doing way out there? That's... a really good question. Why the hell did the AI ship trainers to the Far East? Were there any already in-theater that we're forgetting about?
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Crazycryodude posted:How many tankers do the Allies get? I know their more mundane transports (especially xAK's) are functionally infinite but are we appreciably affecting their ability to transport fuel by dropping all these big tankers and the odd oiler? Ditto for troops and the big liners we've sunk, too. 72 Oilers, total. 175+ Tankers, total. Most of the tankers arrive in Portland or Abadan, depending on the year. Most of the oilers come in at Panama Canal. Tankers start all over the place: Palembang, Port Moresby, Singapore, Seattle, Batavia, Colombo, etc. Oilers are just as spread out, but less in numbers. Jobbo_Fett fucked around with this message at 08:08 on Nov 12, 2016 |
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Did three days of updates this morning. Oh boy, this is going to be an interesting week. (This time I mean it. You are allowed to get properly excited.)
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Grey Hunter posted:Did three days of updates this morning. What did you sink??
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Bikini Atoll.
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Grey Hunter posted:Did three days of updates this morning. Who wants to bet on which of our carriers got sunk?
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Properly excited seems to suggest it's something good, so I'm betting battleship fight at incredibly close range
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Or AI sails Saratoga and Enterprise, with Grey having a jump on them at night.
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Jesenjin posted:What did you sink?? A great deal of his life into this game.
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goatface posted:Bikini Atoll. Guam https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=zNZczIgVXjg
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12 November 1942 RN anti-aircraft ship Tyndale (basically a small merchant refitted with AA weapons), torpedoed off Bougie in the Mediterranean by Italian submarine Argo. US escort Erie, torpedoed off Curaçao by U-163.
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So wait, you sank the Mormacstar, and total US troop loss was 2 vehicles? Does the US have enough boats they're sending their tanks and trucks over one at a time?
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Epicurius posted:So wait, you sank the Mormacstar, and total US troop loss was 2 vehicles? Does the US have enough boats they're sending their tanks and trucks over one at a time? Lend lease is going really poorly since Grau Jaeger conquered Russia
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Epicurius posted:So wait, you sank the Mormacstar, and total US troop loss was 2 vehicles? Does the US have enough boats they're sending their tanks and trucks over one at a time? That always happens. I've never played the game, but as far as I can figure from watching the LPs it's only measuring the casualties during the actual attack - the rest of the transported material will be counted as destroyed once the ship actually sinks.
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