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Zeroisanumber posted:Why would the Queen Mary be chilling, empty way the gently caress out there? The AI is dumb as hell. She could transport an entire division's worth of men at a time; her record, which I believe still stands, is 16,082 passengers (not including crew) across the Atlantic in one voyage.
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David Corbett posted:She could transport an entire division's worth of men at a time; her record, which I believe still stands, is 16,082 passengers (not including crew) across the Atlantic in one voyage. Also wasn't she really goddamn fast?
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Held the record I believe.
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Yeah, she could comfortably run 30 knots, which is the same speed as a fast carrier group. A German Type VII would make 18 knots on the surface, an American Balao would make about 20 knots surfaced, and a Japanese Type B1 (picked because that's what the famous I-19 was) would make 23 knots.
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10 January 1943 Japanese destroyer Okikaze, torpedoed near Yokohama by US submarine Trigger. goatface posted:Held the record I believe. Queen Mary held the Blue Riband from 1938 until 1952, losing it to United States. OpenlyEvilJello fucked around with this message at 04:30 on Jan 11, 2017 |
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   The Iron Ring continues to take its toll.   I hate the Stingray.   Good girls!  Two more? You spoil me!   This is more like it!  We begin to redress the balance.  I'm confident enough to swing the Kiddo Butai off to hunt the ships fleeing New Caledonia – these are both carrying fuel, and doomed.  This was less of a good idea.  We are causing panic though!  The B-17's come in.  Bolos? The bottom of the barrel is being firmly scraped!  This is a bad day for allied shipping. A good day for us though!  Another hit for the tally.  They just keep coming!   Its not just about New Caledonia though – the squad kills are firmly in our favour here.  We rout and advance once more.   Its nice to have some action after a period of quiet – and the air losses are swinging back into our direction now we have kept the pressure up for a few days.  These are just the confirmed ships, others will sink and be confirmed in the coming weeks.
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That was a rather suspicious bout of good fortune. i kept waiting for the other shoe to drop.
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Ikasuhito posted:That was a rather suspicious bout of good fortune. Perhaps the censors have been busy...
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Grey Hunter posted:I hate the Stingray. Ghost of Steve Irwin nods sagely.
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Nice series of kills. Think the Americans will sortie some of their heavy fleet elements or not to try and interfere?
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wedgekree posted:Nice series of kills. Think the Americans will sortie some of their heavy fleet elements or not to try and interfere? Considering the nuking their carriers and battleships have been taking recently I'd be surprised if they had anything heavy left to sortie with.
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Theoretically the USN still has several Battleships active I think and at least one carrier. But yeah, thanks for the correction.
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  The interdiction continues.  Efate is turning into a ship graveyard.  Enemy plane numbers have dropped dramatically.  The B-17s are more of a threat to my planes than my ships.  They do get a hit in though with some Mitchells.  Squad kills are defiantly on our side now – time to keep pushing!  A quieter day – but we are still racking up the kills. I didn't bother showing the Vincent runs – they are just suicide.  Only one ship kill today.   The Carriers have pulled out to rearm and resupply, and the Allies start bombing our forces.  We take a hit, but the unloading is nearly complete.  To be honest, I've lost a lot less ships than I was expecting.  Not that the carriers are not still looking for kills.  Owch.  This is a one day miscalculation in how long it will take them to unload.  We bag a Liberator – at cost.  I don't think their hearts are in these attacks any more....  A quieter day, but now the troops are unloaded, I can march south to the real target! Thankfully – I don't think my ships could take many more days like this!  I'm sure a few more will sink. Grey Hunter fucked around with this message at 16:33 on Jan 15, 2017 |
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Where is, repeat, where is January 12th? The world wonders.
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I want to put in for USS Growler as my lucky ship.
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12 January 1943 US destroyer Worden, grounded and ultimately destroyed by severe weather at Amchitka. Italian torpedo boat Ardente, foundered as a result of boiler explosion and fire following a collision with destroyer Grecale off Sicily. Two Italian forces crossed paths in heavy weather. I'll refrain from posting the 13th for now.
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OpenlyEvilJello posted:...Italian torpedo boat Ardente, foundered as a result of boiler explosion and fire following a collision with destroyer Grecale off Sicily. Two Italian forces crossed paths in heavy weather... Is there, on record, a mention of two Italian TFs or convoys passing near each other and not losing a ship? I'd be surprised at this rate.
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The Mediterranean is much smaller than you think.
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Serpentis posted:Is there, on record, a mention of two Italian TFs or convoys passing near each other and not losing a ship? I'd be surprised at this rate. There's a little bias here, since I'm only posting warship losses. That said, the Italian fleet, especially by 1943, is operating in a pretty lovely environment—confined spaces in the face of now overwhelming Allied air and sea superiority. As I understand it, a lot of their small ships also suffered from some structural weaknesses (this is hardly an Italian-specific problem, as the French, Germans, and Japanese also fielded highly over-stressed small ships).
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  We start the day with a surface attack on a troopship.  I told this lot to leave, so this is not my fault.  I do thing B-17's are over armoured. The sheer weight of lead here should have brought at least one plane down!   Damnation!  Let the death in China begin!  Focus on the squad kills.  A poor day, but at least we have got the troops where they are needed.  I would have rather not lost the tanker.
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13 January 1943 Japanese Patrol Boat No. 1 (ex-Shimakaze), torpedoed near Kavieng by US submarine Guardfish. Still seem to be missing the twelfth.
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Why are all the combat reports from the 12th missing? What is Japanese military command hiding? I bet the Kido Butai was sunk.
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Chunky Monkey posted:Why are all the combat reports from the 12th missing? What is Japanese military command hiding? I bet the Tokyo Bay Fortress was sunk.
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All records involving January 12th, the Yamato, and the USS Enterprise have been permanently sealed, and all events pertaining to that day are hereby forbidden to be discussed.
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just a screwup i can fix as i'm not at computer - i'll put the day up later. (I copied todays to google docs in prep then phone posted it)
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The Japanese troops at Hankow have negative supply, but are also surrounded by friendly troops to secure the siege. Is there a way to get supplies to them?
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  Oh come on!  Bloody 12,000 foot snipers.  Revenge! Well, not really, but it always feels good!  Killjoys.  At least here we bag a kill in return.  Battleshiiiiiip!!!!  Another Banzai charge for the Emperor!  I hate Allied level bombers and their ability to hit things.  At least we came out ahead on points! By one.
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CannonFodder posted:The Japanese troops at Hankow have negative supply, but are also surrounded by friendly troops to secure the siege. Is there a way to get supplies to them? The way to do it is to have an HQ unit with the troops, in order for the troops in the hex to proactively draw supplies, but it also depends on the surrounding infrastructure and all the other troops that come before you "in the web" to see if anything gets through even then.
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As the Hong Kong representative of the thread, I wonder why was it taken by the Japanese so early both in history and this game? The history education on my side of the Earth is pretty mess up as you may imagine, so please feel free to enlighten me. 
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Jeek posted:As the Hong Kong representative of the thread, I wonder why was it taken by the Japanese so early both in history and this game? Both in-game and IRL, Hong Kong is impossible to supply in December of 1941. The IJN will prevent anything from getting in or out by sea, the IJA is camped out around the Hong Kong border in China proper, and the Allies don't really have any capability to challenge them in the China Sea until later in the war. And without supplies, the small forces that are stationed in Hong Kong at game beginning can't hold out at all.
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What is a battleship doing that close to Java?? Some deep raid or something? Very strange.
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Today I learned something interesting, by checking out the USS Washington on Wikipedia: the main turret of the North Carolina class, of which Washington is one, isn't actually bolted to the hull, but rather held in place by its weight. This is no problem during normal operation, but should the ship capsize the turret would fall right out.
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Mikl posted:Today I learned something interesting, by checking out the USS Washington on Wikipedia: the main turret of the North Carolina class, of which Washington is one, isn't actually bolted to the hull, but rather held in place by its weight. This is no problem during normal operation, but should the ship capsize the turret would fall right out. I wanna say this is true for all battleships but I'm not sure.
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Mikl posted:Today I learned something interesting, by checking out the USS Washington on Wikipedia: the main turret of the North Carolina class, of which Washington is one, isn't actually bolted to the hull, but rather held in place by its weight. This is no problem during normal operation, but should the ship capsize the turret would fall right out. If you capsize a ship, the turret falling off is the least of your worries.
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I mean, it makes sense, it's just a weird image (to me at least) that the turret's not anchored to anything. I logically know that if the ship is turned upside down you've got much bigger problems than your turrets falling out, but it just seems wrong that the main thing differentiating a battleship from a very strangely designed freighter isn't actually bolted on anywhere.
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