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Peanut3141 posted:My headcanon is that's a rocking croctopus. There's enough of it occluded that I can still believe! That was exactly what I was about to ask
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farraday posted:Must take after his mother. Wait until he's old enough to set bomber heights.
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Give him a divisional command in China.
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Congrats Grey Baby Grey!aphid_licker posted:Grey Junior has succeeded with a shock attack on my heart
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Awww. Congrats, Grey!
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That's one British-looking kid
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Nice LG TV!
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Grey, it's nice that you have him reading books on Tanks instead of childrens books.Flavius Belisarius posted:That's one British-looking kid
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Reuben Sandwich posted:Grey, it's nice that you have him reading books on Tanks instead of childrens books. He has his own tank identification guide actually. its a smaller one he grabbed and likes to chew on at the moment.
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Let's Play! > War in the Pacific Day by Day - Feel Good Edition. Congrats Grey!
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That chin. It is strong. Your kid will make important decisions, someday.
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Lynneth posted:That chin. It is strong. Possibly involving the invasion of Australia.
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whitewhale posted:Possibly involving the invasion of Australia. They can be important or good, but not both, this is the curse that has been laid on the Croctopus Clan.
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Grey Hunter posted:He has his own tank identification guide actually. its a smaller one he grabbed and likes to chew on at the moment. Well disciplined, it seems. Surprised that those bookshelves haven't been ransacked.
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Rommel you magnificent bastard! I ate your book!
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Ron Jeremy posted:Rommel you magnificent bastard! I ate your book! Snorted my coffee. Thanks.
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Ron Jeremy posted:Rommel you magnificent bastard! I ate your book! close the forum
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   The AI is almost as stubborn as me when it comes to bad ideas.  Its a shame for them the Kiddo Butai is now in range.  The Kido Butai is near Fiji – and finds their favourate prey, Battleships!  And behind the Battleships, the heavily laden troop transports!  We lose some of the straggling planes.  More letters to send home.  This guess of mine has saved thousands of Japanese lives.  We murder more Kiwis. These guys are wiped out by attrition.   Once again I get lucky and find a loaded troop transport and its battleship escort!  No battleships, I must sort this.
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quote:4004 casualties reported another glorious day for the Corps
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 "Uh, sir, the convoy has been wiped out. ...again." "Impossible!" "T-that's what you said the last time, sir." "Don't interrupt me! All right, line up another convoy. 20 AKs and 1 DD for escort, just like the last one. This time they're sure to get through."
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I know it's easy to roll your eyes at the AI sometimes in these games, but I'd much prefer people giving theories as to how things like this could have happened in the real world. I know the USA has a massive industrial advantage, but what if the generals really were super venal or forced into bad decision-making by service rivalry or political pressure. It's almost disappointing that the historical American performance was so efficient, it would be nice to think about how a corrupt, hosed up American Command could botch their great material advantage.
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The yellow press told them that Luganville was the key to the Pacific and a mass popular outcry forces them to keep attacking it. Now that they've lost like 15,000 troops doing so, the outcry has shifted to "We can't let all those marines drown for nothing" so they just keep going, but they keep rushing every invasion in an attempt to mollify the public.
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megane posted:
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7 April 1943 US destroyer Aaron Ward (this one), badly damaged by JNAF dive bombers and sank while under tow to Tulagi. Aaron Ward had narrowly survived the Naval Battle of Guadalcanal five months earlier.
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vyelkin posted:The yellow press told them that Luganville was the key to the Pacific and a mass popular outcry forces them to keep attacking it. Now that they've lost like 15,000 troops doing so, the outcry has shifted to "We can't let all those marines drown for nothing" so they just keep going, but they keep rushing every invasion in an attempt to mollify the public. A literal sunk-cost fallacy.  Also, MacArthur is probably involved in some way (maybe he is in charge instead of Nimitz). He vowed "I shall return" to Luganville.
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You may not have sunk any BB's but those two torps and a fire on the Washington is nothing to be scoffed at, it was one of the newest BB's of the war and sending it for repairs for a while isn't a bad outcome. Providing tomorrow doesn't finish her off anyway! Two South Dakota's on the loose could do some serious damage if they haven't turned back for repairs.
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Wiki page for the USS Washington posted:Washington suffered no losses to hostile action during the entire course of the war, although she had some close calls: she was almost hit by "Long Lance" torpedoes off Guadalcanal, and was hit once by enemy ordnance, a 5-inch shell that passed through her radar antenna without detonation. Not anymore, ha ha ha ha ha 
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Not bad! That's a lot of mauled Allied troops.. And transports.. Think there's any chance of getting the BB's in the next few days and sweeping up their remaining forces in the area or they likely to have skedaddled?
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Air-dropped torpedoes should send them heading straight towards a safe harbour, so they're probably continuing on their mission as planned.
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How comes the Japanese fighters are that bad against US bombers ? Didn't the Zero have 20mm cannons ?
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Hammerstein posted:How comes the Japanese fighters are that bad against US bombers ? Didn't the Zero have 20mm cannons ? Two of them ! With a low muzzle velocity and 80 rounds each ! So not so much as you'd think.
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Hammerstein posted:How comes the Japanese fighters are that bad against US bombers ? Didn't the Zero have 20mm cannons ? It did, but Liberators were pretty well armed (10 50mm cannons), were designed so they could take a bunch of damage and keep flying, and were high altitude bombers, and the Zero wasn't as effective at high altitudes.
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"If we keep throwing wave after wave of men at them, the Oreintals will hit their kill limit and deactivate".
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   Clunk!  Awww. Boom.  We sight the burning battleships.  We sink one, but the flak cruiser hammers us – and is a much more valuable target!  We get to close to Fiji and they send a grab bag of fighters after us – to good effect.   We bring down a load more fighters in Burma.  Two liberators? It must be xmas!  We lose more planes than I would like today.  I think its worth it.
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This is going to end with the USA having no navy and Japan having no air force.
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edit: actually, scratch that, I can't do math. Still, I'm pretty sure that the Americans have lost half of the battleships they get from both the South Dakota and North Carolina classes. Not counting those from the Iowa class that have yet to be seen, they are quickly running out of fast battleships. zetamind2000 fucked around with this message at 18:37 on Apr 8, 2017 |
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Epicurius posted:It did, but Liberators were pretty well armed (10 50mm cannons), were designed so they could take a bunch of damage and keep flying, and were high altitude bombers, and the Zero wasn't as effective at high altitudes. 50mm is 2 inches, which would be quite a sight. (.50 cal is 12.7mm)
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I don't think the CLAA was a better target than the battleships - late war those things are absolutely devastating in shore bombardments and the fast battleships do a great job absorbing bombs for fleet CVs. The US get something like 14 fast battleships for the duration, including 4 Sodak, 4 NC, 4 Iowa, and Alaska/Guam CBs. What's the total battleship sunk tally now?
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