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KYOON GRIFFEY JR posted:noooot really, it was more the fact that if you already have a line entirely tooled for B-17 production, it does not make sense to redo the line to produce a somewhat better bomber. You can make some pretty good fighters out of old dudes and kids with enough training and experience.
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TehKeen posted:
Damage control teams are currently igniting the fore magazine as a firebreak to stop the spread of fire from the aft magazine.
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Feb 23, 2017 13:56
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Yeah. Superficial For the Japanese.
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vyelkin posted:Damage control teams are currently igniting the fore magazine as a firebreak to stop the spread of fire from the aft magazine. this is only slightly too ridiculous to be an actual Japanese damage control plan
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Jobbo_Fett posted:Noumea's right there and he's going to ram the island and sink it into the Pacific Ocean! banzai, mother fuckers! RA Rx posted:You can make some pretty good fighters out of old dudes and kids with enough training and experience. I assume you're joking.
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vyelkin posted:Damage control teams are currently igniting the fore magazine as a firebreak to stop the spread of fire from the aft magazine. Maybe that's the real cause of IRL Mutsu's demise. Forget negligence or possibly sabotage, it was just preventative damage control 
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KYOON GRIFFEY JR posted:noooot really, it was more the fact that if you already have a line entirely tooled for B-17 production, it does not make sense to redo the line to produce a somewhat better bomber. If nothing else, those Flak 36s aren't blowing up Soviet heavies in the East if they're guarding German cities.
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Junkozeyne posted:Maybe that's the real cause of IRL Mutsu's demise. Forget negligence or possibly sabotage, it was just preventative damage control Bombers can't hit you if you're under water
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ZiegeDame posted:Bombers can't hit you if you're under water They can't sink you if you're already sunk, eh? Obviously what works for submarines works for battleships, too!
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BurningStone posted:Mines seem to have racked up quite the kill count, but never get any press. Mines can be an extremely effective weapon, especially in tighter waters like the Mediterranean (a lot of the sinkings have been on the Italy-Sicily-Tunisia axis, which is both cramped and busy), but they're not very sexy. Polyakov has an excellent series of posts on naval mines in the A/T Milhist Thread starting here.
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RA Rx posted:You can make some pretty good fighters out of old dudes and kids with enough training and experience. As was demonstrated by the hit documentary "Battleship".
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If you can't appreciate old grizzled navy vets refitting the motherfucking Missouri to destroy motherfucking aliens then you are obviously a communist 
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Well, I was more referring to such formations as the 12th Panzer SS Hitlerjugend, but after reading up on them they seem a bit too fanatical to be effective.
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   They finally react to our sub cordon.  Oh crap, wrong button, wrong button!  That could have been a lot worse.  Its odd when everything lulls like this.  An old kill for both of us.
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Tentacle slipped on the ol' shock-deliberate lever again, eh?
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You try managing eight of the bloody things! I swear they have a life of their own!
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  Christmas Island gets another pasting.  No! My fuel!  Oh thank the gods!  It looks like the enemy are garrisoning another island.   We lose quite a few plans to an air raid at Rangoon.  Here are the latest reports from Hankow – time to rest up again.  The enemy are march on Sinyang in force.  I need to slow down losing planes!  At least she wasn't a BIG tanker.
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9 hits and she's still afloat(ish)? What the hell did they hit it with, water balloons? At least I'm assuming it was hits while underwater due to the picture, as opposed to machine gun rounds on the surface or something.
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3 DONG HORSE posted:If you can't appreciate old grizzled navy vets refitting the motherfucking Missouri to destroy motherfucking aliens then you are obviously a communist I saw Battleship twice. Once with my dad, and once with a friend just to see their reaction to that scene.
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Please tell me you have enough men to stop that little doom stack from reaching Hankow. It would be nice to take the city sometime this year.
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Another day, another 18 air frames. So, what does your air frame and pilot replacement rate look like, Grey? Also, I remember asking the thread what the replacement rate for Japanese merchant shipping was... The answer was "We have to build more of these things!?" So the correct question I guess is how much tonnage does Grey start with?
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Acebuckeye13 posted:I saw Battleship twice. Once with my dad, and once with a friend just to see their reaction to that scene. I love that scene - its stupid (like the rest of the film) but its so funny a idea. That and the old guy hitting on Rianna.....
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Grey Hunter posted:We lose quite a few plans to an air raid at Rangoon.
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Does the allied AI get unlimited replacement planes like the Japanese AI does, or is it restricted to the historical replacement rates like the allied player? The only way to get air total air superiority against a Japanese AI airbase is to blockade it until it can't maintain the 10k supply needed to draw replacement planes and then destroying all the planes in the air or on the ground. Doing that against the allies seems... hard.
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  We find another lost troopship.  The clean-up operation continues.  A nice quiet day while I rebuild my forces in places – at Namoua, I'm pulling out a division for a rest and refit.  The world wonders.
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Decoy Badger posted:Seems like Allied troop ship losses have soared well beyond historical figures. I guess maybe thats what happens if Midway goes the other way and for some reason the US decided to ship tons of troops out anyway?
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Acebuckeye13 posted:I saw Battleship twice. Once with my dad, and once with a friend just to see their reaction to that scene. I saw it for the amazing Battleship handbrake turn.
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  Our planes come off worse again in an engagement.  Oh look! We damaged something!  Our planes do make it to the target though, and do some nice damage.  The Allies are invading Tarawa!  They get 37 marines ashore, most of whom are blown up by our artillery.  Their own gun crews then make a valiant, if futile assault on our positions.  They are killing our planes out there.  At least we picked off another ship!
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The air war is going to get very ugly shortly when Hellcats, P-47s, P-51s, and other newer allied fighters start showing up in significant numbers...
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46 vs 4... a particularly bad day, but, yeah I don't care if morale is 98, unless, is it directly equivalent to experience? This has got to be chewing up the pilot pools and our ace leader boards something fierce. It looked bad enough last time.
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The Something Awful Forums > Discussion > Games > Let's Play! > War in the Pacific Day by Day - They are killing our planes out there
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They landed more guns than men. What the gently caress were they up to there?
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The Something Awful Forums > Discussion > Games > Let's Play! > War in the Pacific Day by Day - There seems to be something wrong with our bloody planes this month
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Yes, it's like a lava lamp.
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The Something Awful Forums > Discussion > Games > Let's Play! > War in the Pacific Day by Day - I'm tired of meatballs, can I have some Chinese instead?
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The Something Awful Forums > Discussion > Games > Let's Play! > War in the Pacific Day by Day - Stop exploding, you cowards!
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The Something Awful Forums > Discussion > Games > Let's Play! > War in the Pacific Day by Day - I sent wave after wave of my own men at them until they reached their preset kill limit.
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