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Saint Celestine posted:....torpedo? From say... a submarine? From say... a country the US is at war with? Just a guess but maybe a submarine laid it
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A submarine laid floating mines out in the middle of the atlantic? Was that a real thing ? That seems incredibly inefficient.
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Jun 13, 2017 22:39
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I have no idea! I'm a horse!
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Saint Celestine posted:....torpedo? From say... a submarine? From say... a country the US is at war with? quote:At 0510 on 13 June, a large sheet of flame and dense smoke were seen rising from the Escanaba, though no explosion was heard by the other ships in the convoy. She sank at 0513, going down so quickly that she did not have time to send any distress signals. Storis and Raritan were ordered to investigate and rescue survivors while the rest of the convoy began zigzagging and steering evasive courses to avoid enemy submarines. Although Storis and Raritan were able to arrive on the scene within ten minutes, only two survivors and one body could be found. At 0715 the two vessels returned to the main body of the convoy, having rescued Boatswain's Mate 2nd Class Melvin A. Baldwin and Seaman 1st Class Raymond F. O'Malley, Jr., and having found the body of LT Prause. The entire crew of 13 officers and 92 men was lost to the explosion or to rapid hypothermia in the 39 °F (4 °C) water with the exception of Baldwin and O'Malley, whose survival was attributed to their soaked clothing having frozen their unconscious bodies to floating debris, which prevented them from following their shipmates to the bottom.
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Jun 13, 2017 23:18
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   I've decided to start censoring my combat reports for security. That or we have a weird graphical bug today.   The Liberators continue to pound Luganville airfield.  The first wave of Chinese reinforcements has reached Noumea.   At least my plane losses have dropped off recently.  We reoccupy a base in the mountains.   Taking a base is always nice.  The Kido Butai is now undergoing refit.
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Jun 14, 2017 18:07
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It's honestly kind of amazing that the few remnants of the Chinese forces are still blocking the road at the Burmese border. It's like the game doesn't want you to have a continuous route from Korea to Burma.
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Jun 14, 2017 18:19
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Any plans to soften up Noumea with naval bombardments before sending your pixelmen over the top? After the glory of sinking all those carriers a while back, your battleships seem a bit quiet. And while they're in the neighborhood, sending them at Fiji few times might quiet down those Liberators long enough to allow you to rebuild Luganville.
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Jun 14, 2017 22:26
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Is it usual to have all of those CVs in refit at the same time? Seems like this should be the happy hunting time before the tsunami of American naval air comes crashing down.
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Jun 15, 2017 03:43
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Grey Hunter posted:
Wait, what? Chinese reinforcements?  Where the hell did the AI even put them aboard ships, let alone why are they being used off the mainland?
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Jun 15, 2017 04:23
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I think he meant Japanese reinforcements from China.
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Jun 15, 2017 04:29
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Lord Koth posted:Wait, what? Chinese reinforcements? He means Japanese troops freed up from being used in China, which he then spent a boatload of political points to reassign them to this area.
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Jun 15, 2017 04:30
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Oh, right. Yeah, that'd make sense. I'm just so used to the insane stuff the AI has been invading with I just assumed they'd run out of Kiwi desk troops to send to their deaths and had moved onto something else.
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Jun 15, 2017 04:33
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  The Hyuga continues to net some kills.  The Allies get to the beaches though.   I need some patrol boats out here.  Liberators claim another kill.  We send another Chinese force into full retreat.  The little force based at Luganville is doing a great job.  With the carriers in refit, we're not seeing massive kills like the previous few months.
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Jun 16, 2017 06:30
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I hope Baldurk unfucks the LPIX https certificate soon.
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Jun 16, 2017 06:52
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  We bring down a Liberator.  Then a second one.  Well, we got two kills at least.  Dammit.
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Jun 16, 2017 18:00
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If Arizona was previously marked as "Probable kill", I certainly missed it. That or the game is lying to you. 
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Jun 16, 2017 19:00
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15 June 1943 German minesweeper M-483, sunk in the Channel by RAF Whirlwinds. Russian minesweeper Zashchitnik, sunk in the Black Sea by U-24.
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Jun 16, 2017 20:46
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Whirlwinds were good and cool.
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Jun 16, 2017 21:04
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OpenlyEvilJello posted:15 June 1943 Wait, Whirlwinds?? I thought they were out of service/obsolete in 1941.
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Jun 17, 2017 01:13
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Nah, they were barely in service by 41 and pretty much stayed that way while the channel war was a serious thing. Four 20mm cannons gently caress up light boats p good.
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Comstar posted:Wait, Whirlwinds?? I thought they were out of service/obsolete in 1941. The attackers were 263 Squadron, which will transition to Typhoons in December of this year.
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Jun 17, 2017 07:59
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OpenlyEvilJello posted:The attackers were 263 Squadron, which will transition to Typhoons in December of this year. For a second there I thought 263 Squadron are still flying Whirlwinds and will be getting Eurofighter Typhoons in December 2017.
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Jun 17, 2017 08:21
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CeeJee posted:For a second there I thought 263 Squadron are still flying Whirlwinds and will be getting Eurofighter Typhoons in December 2017. #Britishprocurement
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Jun 17, 2017 16:58
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   A large group of snipers get another hit.  Then another – they never hit anything when I was using them.  Balls of steel.  I've sallied the Kiddo Butai, and its their fighters that help us bring down a bomber.  We see a fighter scrap.  I hate B-17s. Thankfully we're well up on the kills today, and they took a lot of operational losses.
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Jun 17, 2017 20:00
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Question, can you control the Chinese situation so well that you purposefully trigger the Russians and then farm them for points?
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Jun 17, 2017 21:28
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Donkringel posted:Question, can you control the Chinese situation so well that you purposefully trigger the Russians and then farm them for points? That is not the direction the farming would be going.
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Jun 17, 2017 23:20
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   Phew!  Flak does it's work.  We make an attack, and pay a heavy cost for a level of forts – time to rebuild and await further reinforcements.  Marine raiders take an undefended island.  One of our ships sinks at the very sight of a B-17.  Another fighter lost.  A costly day, but I needed to see what I was up against.  Two ships? That's terrible! We must send out the carriers and redress this!
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Jun 18, 2017 20:14
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You really should move those ships out of Koepang, given the constant bombing it looks like they are just sitting there.
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Jun 18, 2017 20:29
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Don't you think it's time to give up on Noumea?
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Jun 18, 2017 21:05
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David Corbett posted:Don't you think it's time to give up on Noumea? Guards, execute this coward!
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Jun 18, 2017 21:34
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You know you can bombardment attack to get intel on enemy AV... right? Without losing 9000 troops?
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Jun 18, 2017 22:50
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As groggy as this game is, what exactly is that simulating?
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Jun 18, 2017 23:16
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Oberndorf posted:As groggy as this game is, what exactly is that simulating? Disruption mostly. Some 14-inch shells landing in an area are bound to mess stuff up.
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Jun 18, 2017 23:30
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Oberndorf posted:As groggy as this game is, what exactly is that simulating?
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Jun 18, 2017 23:36
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Oberndorf posted:As groggy as this game is, what exactly is that simulating? Sending a few distance observers and recon squads, one presumes, rather than a human wave.
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Jun 18, 2017 23:41
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Oberndorf posted:As groggy as this game is, what exactly is that simulating? Ideally artillery will be fired when there are spotters present to determine effect on target
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Jun 19, 2017 00:51
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Donkringel posted:Question, can you control the Chinese situation so well that you purposefully trigger the Russians and then farm them for points? Not in this game anymore, but some players can pretty much do anything to the AI short of winning a land invasion of the West Coast.
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Jun 19, 2017 02:41
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The decapitation strike on the Allied factories on the West Coast is a thing though.
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Jun 19, 2017 05:15
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"Captain! B17 inbound!" "Right then, scuttle the ship. It will save everyone's time". I suspect that gving up all the Bat poo poo is going to doom you all.
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Poor little ship thinks it's a submarine
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