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A reminder that Hitler intentionally wanted to fight to the last to 'punish' the German people for failing him.
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Speaking of refusing to stop fighting long after any sane person would, Grey Hunter better strap in for the long hall because I won't consider this LP truly complete unless he simulates the Japanese garrison holdouts who terrorized tourists well into the 70s.
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So, 28 planes - that would be a CVL or about the entire airgroup of a CVE launched?
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Woof, just read through this entire thread. This is a great game to watch a LP of, but trying to actually play it seems incredibly daunting. Thanks for going through it for us Grey! If no one has claimed it yet, can I claim PT-109 as my Lucky Ship?
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turn it up TURN ME ON posted:If no one has claimed it yet, can I claim PT-109 as my Lucky Ship? Done.
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Feb 4, 2017 19:12
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   We bring down another Liberator.  We crack another layer of forts – thankfully, this is mostly disabled squads, and easy to replace.   Two Liberators in one day!   The carriers go out to hunt their opposing number, but find a large task force in Milne Bay.  We put some bombs into them.   I'll need to rest up my troops – they will recover as well, but not as quickly due to low supplies.   Lets see what damage the carriers can do in the coming days!
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Feb 4, 2017 19:24
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Huh... actually looks like you'll win at Noumea, Adjusted Value, forts, casualties are going in the right direction. Still no casualties on the allied side though.
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Noumea's definitely gonna need some bombardment support to be winnable. Crater the airfield with a BB bombardment then annoy the garrison by throwing bombers at them every day. And maybe turn Koumac into an airbase and park some Betties there so they can't resupply.
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Slippery42 posted:Noumea's definitely gonna need some bombardment support to be winnable. Crater the airfield with a BB bombardment then annoy the garrison by throwing bombers at them every day. And maybe turn Koumac into an airbase and park some Betties there so they can't resupply. Given the fate of the Fuso, I'm not sure he can provide the air cover necessary to keep BB's alive around Noumea
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Feb 4, 2017 21:33
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You can run night missions in and out at night--you know when it's dark--and if your first missions knock out the airfield it helps.
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Feb 4, 2017 22:46
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TildeATH posted:You can run night missions in and out at night--you know when it's dark--and if your first missions knock out the airfield it helps. Would the Japanese get a bonus for this? Engagements during the night was something that their navy was specifically trained for. Granted, that was for naval battles and not shore bombardments, but it should still apply. zetamind2000 fucked around with this message at 22:59 on Feb 4, 2017 |
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Feb 4, 2017 22:57
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TildeATH posted:You can run night missions in and out at night--you know when it's dark--and if your first missions knock out the airfield it helps. This. Also, recall that it took a few days of sustained bombing for those planes to actually take the Fuso down since none of them appear to be equipped with torpedoes. I'm actually a little surprised to see Noumea listed as still having planes present. In my experience, the AI often freaks out and evacuates every air group it can from a threatened base. Of course, knowing Grey, he'd throw some slow-rear end training cruiser into the TF that would prevent them from reaching the target before the planes can sortie  RZApublican posted:Would the Japanese get a bonus for this? Engagements during the night was something that their navy was specifically trained for. Granted, that was for naval battles and not shore bombardments, but it should still apply. Ship crews have separate experience listed for day and night. I've never gone grognard enough to look into how Allies vs. Japanese ships compare in this regard at various points in the war to know whether there's actually a bonus (and the degree thereof), but it's definitely a thing the game can model.
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Slippery42 posted:
Pretty much all the IJN ships start with much higher night experience than the Allied ships. Given how miserly the game is with giving out experience and nobody loses experience, this means that even Japanese yard queens who never fire a shot in anger (like IRL Mutsu) will have higher night experience throughout the war than Allied ships who actually participate in and live through night fights.
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(from a few days ago) Check out those Japanese sorties  Also, I'm glad the Hankow troops have supply again. For a while. I was wondering at the time if damaged squads would properly reform without supply, or if Grey was getting hit harder than he thought because the low supply was causing slower reformation of squads. That would requiring knowing exactly how this engine works and HAHAHAHAHA
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Feb 5, 2017 03:02
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Rest is for the weak, press on the attack!
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How's the Fuso? Is she facing serious dockyard time or bottom of the ocean?
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A White Guy posted:How's the Fuso? Is she facing serious dockyard time or bottom of the ocean? I have bad news for you...
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A White Guy posted:How's the Fuso? Is she facing serious dockyard time or bottom of the ocean? I think you mean the Hyuga, the Fuso is a reef now.
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Feb 5, 2017 05:29
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Good luck racking up some kills with the carriers!
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TildeATH posted:You can run night missions in and out at night--you know when it's dark--and if your first missions knock out the airfield it helps. Are we deliberately trying to refight Guadalcanal? Grey needs to put a lot more subs around it to stop resupply.
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Comstar posted:Are we deliberately trying to refight Guadalcanal? The Japanese BBs shelling Henderson Field really was the closest they ever came to shutting it down, though.
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Comstar posted:Are we deliberately trying to refight Guadalcanal? That's the first word popping up in my head when I see the situation in Noumea actually.
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  We're finally starting to do damage to their heavy bombers.  We sink a loaded troop ship.  We then savage several more.  New Caledonia is such a target rich environment.  One kill here and a tanker from last year in the ops reports. Rule The Waves Part 3. I make many mistakes. Grey Hunter fucked around with this message at 18:24 on Feb 5, 2017 |
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Feb 5, 2017 18:21
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They're doing carrier ops in a thunderstorm? Ballsy as gently caress.
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Getting fighters that have actual guns instead of those 7.7mm toys does seem to be helping with the heavy bomber problem.
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It is only relatively recently (last ten days or so) that he started getting decent numbers of Zeros into action there. Mostly he's been trying to shoot them down with Nates and sometimes a couple of Zeros (too few to help much).
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   drat working torps.  We bring down a couple of Hurricanes.  Time for another killing spree!  Most of these ships are not making it home.  Its a bad day for Allied shipping – and the troops they are carrying!  A very bad day.  Mmmm. Tanker.  The Empress' India takes some sinking.  We should earn some points today!  There will be a lot of letters going home to lots of families.  I think we did some damage today. 240 points of troops killed alone!  So many kills.
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Feb 6, 2017 19:00
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Wowee, good job Grey. Keep smacking them around, and soon you'll be invading San Diego!
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Feb 6, 2017 19:03
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So how long until CINCPAC realizes the "reverse Tokyo express" strategy isn't working out too well?
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That was some quality pixelmen murder there, Grey.
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Feb 6, 2017 19:33
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Wow, that was just a slaughter.
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RMS Empress of Australia in her prime: Fun Ship Fact: She was actually in port at Yokohama when the Great Kanto Earthquake struck in 1923. Both Tokyo and Yokohama suffered catastrophic damage in what is probably one of the worst earthquake disasters in recorded history. After some fancy footwork and the help of divers from the BB Yamashiro freeing a fouled propeller, Empress of Australia stayed on-station for several days providing relief and ferrying refugees up the coast to Kobe.
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I feel like in this timeline more soldiers die in sinking ships than in battle. Anime-style battleship-troop transports are the only logical outcome.
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Feb 6, 2017 19:55
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It's a little ridiculous that there are uncovered convoys trickling through the Coral Sea.
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Pixelman's go in the water, pixel sharks in the water... Fair well and adieu all you ladies of spain...
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Army basic training is extended by 5 weeks with Navy SEAL-levels of swimming requirements. Despite losing the war, the US sweeps the Olympic medals in every swimming event for the next twenty years.
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Wonder how some of the guns and vehicles wound up as "disabled" instead of destroyed. Did they put some of them into lifeboats?
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You don't ship them assembled, and they probably don't have to travel with their full crew & support crews.
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