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Y-Wings fit more in with Beaufighters than with Lancasters though. They're more of an assault fighter / light bomber than a dedicated bombing platform like the Lancaster was.
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Drone posted:Y-Wings fit more in with Beaufighters than with Lancasters though. They're more of an assault fighter / light bomber than a dedicated bombing platform like the Lancaster was. Y-Wings are Fairey Battles
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Drone posted:Y-Wings fit more in with Beaufighters than with Lancasters though. They're more of an assault fighter / light bomber than a dedicated bombing platform like the Lancaster was. Trench run = Dambusters, so there's gotta be a Lancaster in there somewhere
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Weren't the TIEs German fighters since the Trench Run is basically a remake of Dam Busters? I guess TIEs are also Stukas because of the sirens.
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NightGyr posted:Trench run = Dambusters, so there's gotta be a Lancaster in there somewhere Light attack bombers trying to navigate a trench, evade anti-aircraft fire and hit a tiny target to disable a superweapon? Seems familiar. https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=2A04o_kVonQ SW trench run was pretty much copied verbatim from 633 Squadron.
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For all of your considerations: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=_NMfBKrdErY https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=-q47GIgmQWo
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Night10194 posted:I thought the X-Wings were always supposed to be Corsairs. I accept this correction!
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Davin Valkri posted:For all of your considerations: Honestly Star Wars is made up of so many inspirations and nods (the first movie, I mean) that it's less a copy and more a celebration of what an insane cinephile with proper oversight can achieve.
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Not to mention that Abrams really ripped of from Rieffenstahl when it comes to the First Order.
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Davin Valkri, count your lucky stars!
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Jobbo_Fett posted:Davin Valkri, count your lucky stars! Aaaaah! How far is it from friendly port?! It needs to survive to sink a carrier!
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Davin Valkri posted:Aaaaah! How far is it from friendly port?! It needs to survive to sink a carrier! Like... really loving far from Milne Bay so, uh... good luck! Put it this way, if it could only travel 1 hex per day, it would take 23 days to get to Milne Bay.
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I was sweating bullets waiting for the pictures to load. "WHICH SUB?"
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Davin Valkri posted:Aaaaah! How far is it from friendly port?! It needs to survive to sink a carrier! Isn't the Yorktown already sunk?
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Kodos666 posted:Not to mention that Abrams really ripped of from Rieffenstahl when it comes to the First Order. 
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   Rate Chinese planes. No I'm not worried about nothing happening today, why do you ask?  There goes a months worth of Chinese replacements.   Allied bombers bring the pain.  So much pain.  Anyone who said I'm wasting time in Chunking can take the fact that all the Chinese reserves are being bottled up there. Tomorrow I shall throw more lives at the combat simulation in Hankow.
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kelvron posted:Are you getting any points for the Allied attacks in Chungking? Kill points, yeah.
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Having never played, can anyone tell me if Grey's 6000 plus political points are a little or a lot? What should be done with them at the point?
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How many points does it take to free up the Tokyo Bay Fortress? He may be saving up for that.
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  I've tweaked my fighter basing up here. We get a kill on day one.  Blood for the blood gods. Or readers as I like to call them.  I'm also pushing west with two divisions here.  China is not a nice place at the moment, but these things must happen. The Emperor demands it.  This is today's big news. A three hundred point jump in ship sunk points shows this is true. I have finally achieved the dream. Xmas has come early!
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Grey Hunter posted:
Well, you need to look out for shivs.
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All this time and it finally happened
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Pershing posted:Having never played, can anyone tell me if Grey's 6000 plus political points are a little or a lot? What should be done with them at the point? A division is like 1500 points.
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Still at negative supply in china. The big advantage the Japanese have is supply, which is why taking China at all is reasonable in the game engine. Without adequate supply I don't see it happening.
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So if these events actually happened; would fleet losses of this magnitude swing public opinion enough that it would let the Japanese sue for peace?
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Chuu posted:So if these events actually happened; would fleet losses of this magnitude swing public opinion enough that it would let the Japanese sue for peace? "They kicked our asses pretty bad, and what do we care about the Co-Prosperity Sphere anyway? Let 'em have it." versus "They kicked our asses pretty bad, now it's PAYBACK TIME  "Which one do you see America (gently caress yea) going for?
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This would be bad, but not huge compared to the obscene losses in some of the ground war. The replacements are coming online soon, it's not like the us is in danger of running out of fleet. poo poo is troubling, but not nation threateningly dangerous. The war is there to be pursued.
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Mikl posted:"They kicked our asses pretty bad, and what do we care about the Co-Prosperity Sphere anyway? Let 'em have it." Just means Henry Kaiser is buying another mansion.
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RZApublican posted:The Enterprise went down on my birthday 
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Mikl posted:Which one do you see America (gently caress yea) going for? My view of World War II is so colored by the way it's taught in the US and the fact we won that I can't really answer. There is a lot of America (gently caress yeah) in the way it's taught; but I can't help but think that some parts of America were just tired of War after the meat grinder that was the eastern campaign. Vietnam definitely shows there is an upper limit.
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We're only in the midwar reassertion of strength stage, not the later war grinding their bones to dust under the heel of your mangled foot bitterness.
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I don't think recent events lead to the US peacing out, but the Battle of Milne Bay would probably be a huge blow to the carrier advocates in the USN, as well as a political upset back home.
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It has been just over a year since Pearl, so blood would still be running hot enough that this loss could be shaken off as far as the public is concerned. Now if the AI continues throwing away ships you could probably make a case by late '43 to mid '44 that at some point the public would start getting annoyed at just how many lives were being lost for seemingly no gain.
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Yes, it's like a lava lamp.