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I like the assumption that an empire as great and powerful as Imperial Japan even needs to have long-term plans, as if the war won't be over soon already
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   Air skirmishing continues.   More victims are put ashore.  Crazy theory here. Did no one tell New Zealand that I own Luganville? Are they just trying to build up a base that they think they still own?   Allied base points drop by 500 for no reason.
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Fires over two hundred shots and didn't hit a thing? Maybe some glasses for your coastal gunners?
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Ron Jeremy posted:Fires over two hundred shots and didn't hit a thing? Maybe some glasses for your coastal gunners? Technically that's only what the Japanese are reporting, not what the Allies are.
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Ron Jeremy posted:Fires over two hundred shots and didn't hit a thing? Maybe some glasses for your coastal gunners? And isn't damage based on caliber of the guns in question versus armor of the target? From what I've seen a battleship could have been hit from a destroyer gun many times, but the game would qualify it as only few percent of the damage, as those guns cannot penetrate thick battleship armor.
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Ron Jeremy posted:Fires over two hundred shots and didn't hit a thing? Maybe some glasses for your coastal gunners? That may actually be the problem. Too many glasses downed at the local pub.
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Ron Jeremy posted:Fires over two hundred shots and didn't hit a thing? Maybe some glasses for your coastal gunners?  "Sorry sir, I'm doing my best."
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  I like to think I have officers dressed in New Zeeland uniforms directing the new arrivals to the POW camps....  Apparently some of my new fighters are still set to train.  When the AI gets an idea into its head....
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That AP would be a nice kill! Any planes in range on that NZ invasion?
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29 December 1942 American destroyer-minesweeper Wasmuth, sunk off the Aleutians when two of her own depth charges accidentally exploded in a gale. That's gotta be embarrassing.
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OpenlyEvilJello posted:29 December 1942 honorary inductee into the Italian Navy 
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Grey Hunter posted:Crazy theory here. Did no one tell New Zealand that I own Luganville? Are they just trying to build up a base that they think they still own? 
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Up to 500ish shots with out a hit.
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Somewhere just off Luganville: "We few, we happy few, we band of typists and other supply clerks."
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Ron Jeremy posted:Up to 500ish shots with out a hit. They were just tricking the enemy into landing onto what is clearly a drunken garrison.
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PittTheElder posted:They were just tricking the enemy into landing onto what is clearly a drunken garrison. Aussies seemed to do ok and I guarantee that was a drunken garrison.
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   One of our subs takes hits.  Another is confident enough to make a surface attack.   We're going to be chasing these guys all the way to Kunming.  We're coasting out the new year before the major operation in the new year.  Not that we can't still kill enemy ships.
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Those subs around Pearl Harbor are on fire. I don't think you've seen it, but you were asking for someone to amend the graphs in your googledocs a while ago, and I did. Maybe it's of any help, maybe not.
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  A hit one a troopship is always good.  One last squandering of troops for the year.  The carriers arrive back at Rabaul. Soon we start loading for what may be a disastrous campaign to the south – but I need to try something, if not to at least to keep the game interesting.  The Subs are having a good time at the moment.
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Looks like Chungking should fall soon!
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So what's the plan going to be with the sweep south? And how many carriers you have over in the operation then or any heavy surface units?
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31 December 1942 German destroyer Friedrich Eckholdt, sunk by British cruiser Sheffield. British minesweeper Bramble, sunk by German cruiser Admiral Hipper. British destroyer Achates, sank following damage inflicted by Admiral Hipper. All three ships were sunk during the Battle of the Barents Sea, when major German surface units sortied to engage convoy JW51B north of the North Cape, Norway. The German force consisted of the "pocket battleship" Lützow, heavy cruiser Admiral Hipper, and six destroyers. Convoy JW51B comprised 14 merchant ships with a close escort of six destroyers, two corvettes, Bramble, and two trawlers and a distant covering force of two light cruisers (Sheffield and Jamaica) and two destroyers. Bad weather scattered part of the convoy and Bramble encountered and was destroyed by Hipper's group while attempting to locate and round up stragglers. Hipper then resumed her attack on the main body of the convoy, fatally wounding Achates, but the sacrifice of Bramble and a previous aggressive defense by the escorting destroyers bought sufficient time for the covering for to arrive. The Germans, unwilling to risk serious damage, withdrew. In the process, two of the German destroyers mistook Sheffield for Hipper and attempted to form up; it was at this juncture that Eckholdt was sunk. At this time the second German force, led by Lützow, appeared from the opposite direction and engaged the convoy without success before, in turn, being driven off by the covering force. None of the merchant ships were sunk. Hitler, livid, threatened to scrap the entire surface fleet.
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Jobbo_Fett posted:Looks like Chungking should fall soon! I think there are a ton of troops in Chungking that they're not attacking with and would get a massive bonus on defense.
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Bip Roberts posted:I think there are a ton of troops in Chungking that they're not attacking with and would get a massive bonus on defense. There are less than 3000 combat-capable men, its a sure win! 
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There's probably another 50k who decided not to join in with the suicidal charge.
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goatface posted:There's probably another 50k who decided not to join in with the suicidal charge. Too weak to stand!
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Chungking might be more useful as a way to farm points than it would be captured. Killing twice the pixel-population of China in one city!
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  Our sub Captains tend to have trouble walking due to the sheer size of their balls.  The car park once again fails to bring down a single enemy bomber.  The next wave of prisoners is arriving it seems.  Yep – literally the clerks now.  Betties find and murder a troop convoy.  First up - happy new year!  Not a bad way to start it.   Its been a month of watching the points flow in from the kills.  I think we took one or two bases in China, and that was all.  Base points have been jumping up and down all month for no reason. It makes for very messy graphs.  On to the interesting ones, we have maintained parity with the Allies in aircraft losses.  Our pools remain healthy in most types.  Enemy losses continue to outstrip our own by a good margin.  The loss of their carriers really shows here.
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Wow, this is surely a long campaign we are having. Please keep up the good job Grey Hunter.Cythereal posted:Take your pick of the Taffy 3 boats. I haven't claimed a lucky ship, so I'm claiming CVE White Plains. An escort carrier that crippled a heavy cruiser with its guns (yes, the escort carrier's guns). By starting a fire that detonated said heavy cruiser's Long Lances, incidentally. I'll claim USS Heermann if that is in the game. May it send Yamato away once again.
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Jeek posted:Almost a year late but I wonder if I can still pick a lucky ship among them?
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Grey Hunter posted:
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i81icu812 posted:what happened to the fixed graphs? Was quoting the whole post really necessary? Also grey explicitly said he wasn't going to fix the graphs and someone else could do it if they wanted to.
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I think our sub captains are actually tanooki; it would explain the giant balls and their ability to sneak up on US ships.
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  A sub targets a destroyer rather than either of the two tankers he can see.  Reports say this one was carrying fuel.  These planes are survivors from a downed carrier, getting their revenge.  And revenge they shall have!  Our subs are having a great start to the year.  The rig of steel around Hawaii bites.  The Betties return to finish the job.  Well, things have gotten lively! And I've begun loading troops for the major offensive in the south.  Ships sinking. i81icu812 posted:what happened to the fixed graphs? They arrived after this post was written, I'll use them from next month onwards.
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i81icu812 posted:what happened to the fixed graphs? Grey didn't have enough political points to use them yet
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I-19 is the best sub. Sadly, we're out of carriers in this timeline so it can't pull off its amazing shot in this one.
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Nice start to the month. Think you can tae out those tankers or not?
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One weird thing about subs in witp is the way submarine doctrine isn't really modeled. Obviously you can simulate deployment strategies to a degree but if you want to use the IJN subs as a merchant-sinking force there's nothing stopping you and their long range boats and excellent torpedoes are very effective in this role. Historically 184 allied merchant ships were sunk, but this pace of attacks would easily exceed that and turn the Pacific into another Atlantic in short order.
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