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20 July 1943 Japanese destroyers Kiyonami and Yugure, sunk by USMC aircraft north of Kolombangara.
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Jul 20, 2017 21:45
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goatface posted:Where are these planes coming from? Max Range: 89 Hexes - Direction puts them coming from Calcutta or that area
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Jul 20, 2017 22:10
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Jobbo_Fett posted:
At least my ship died bravely. RIP French naval power in the pacific.
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Jul 21, 2017 21:53
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Jobbo_Fett posted:Max Range: 89 Hexes - Direction puts them coming from Calcutta or that area 89 hexes at 40 mile per hex is 3560 miles. That's gotta be one-way, empty ferry range.
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Jul 21, 2017 22:17
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goatface posted:89 hexes at 40 mile per hex is 3560 miles. That's gotta be one-way, empty ferry range. Yeah, game puts it down as 3550 miles. Normal radius is 23 hexes (920 miles), extended is 29 hexes (1150 miles).
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Jul 21, 2017 22:34
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Even a half assed spotter network and radio relay would have those liberators intercepted the entire route out.
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   Better luck next time!  Flak brings down an attacking plane from Tarawa.   The Allies are annoyed by our deep strike, and try and make us pay!  I almost feel sorry for these poor buggers.   Three days now until the Kido Butai finishes its upgrades. The squadrons are filling out nicely and we have even seen some upgrades in the plane types! 
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Jul 22, 2017 04:13
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  Here we go again! Or not, as they all rembark soon afterwards. Apparently having touched the beaches is enough for them.   Rangoon comes under attack.  We continue to see an uptick of base points.  It looks like they still have a battleship active.
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Jul 23, 2017 04:19
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Grey Hunter posted:
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22 July 1943 Japanese seaplane carrier Nisshin, sunk west of Bougainville by US aircraft. Italian minelayer Durazzo, torpedoed by British submarine Safari east of Corsica.
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Jul 23, 2017 05:22
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Grey Hunter posted:
New Zealand is now Grampa Simpson https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=UkJehlr1tEw
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Jul 23, 2017 06:01
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Grey Hunter posted:
A decisive moral victory!
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Jul 23, 2017 09:07
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So, currently who theoretically controls Louganville? I'm not sure if we control it and the USN is invadin to take it from us, we're invading it and they're counter-invading to prevent us from taking it, or some sort of general shenanigans where no one is -sure-.
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Jul 23, 2017 10:38
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A Patrol Boat can be worth 10 points?
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Jul 23, 2017 13:05
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Looks like it should be a transport, is a boat with notorious history.
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Jul 23, 2017 13:15
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   We get lucky once more.  It seems that we are going to be see more raids on Rangoon.  They throw more men into the grinder at Luganville.  I need to get more fighters into Rabaul.  That's what I like to see.
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23 July 1943 German minesweeper M.152, mined off the Gironde in the classic irony.
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Jul 23, 2017 18:44
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  We are losing a plane a day it seems.  The Kido Butai is back baby!  Lets destroy something!
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24 July 1943 Italian corvette Cicogna, beached and abandoned following severe damage in a USAAF air raid.
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Jul 24, 2017 18:10
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Too Pearl! Need to nip that carrier build up thing in the bud.
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Jul 24, 2017 18:13
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I always forget to look this up, what sort of stacking penalties do you get on fleet size? 18 ships seems like a lot
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Jul 24, 2017 18:13
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That many cap ships should probably have more than 18 escorts. I mean, Japan doesn't have them to spare, but it's hella top heavy.
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Jul 24, 2017 21:45
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So what did those refits do? More AA?
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Jul 24, 2017 22:15
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Probably. Most of those Carriers should be dead by now, so there's not exactly a "canon" upgrade.
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GOOD TIMES ON METH posted:I always forget to look this up, what sort of stacking penalties do you get on fleet size? 18 ships seems like a lot 25 is the max task force size. The stacking penalties are for having more than a set number of aircraft in the same task force. From memory I think it's 400 for Japan all war long. The penalty is reduced coordination on strikes, i.e. your aircraft are more likely to show up at the target in multiple smaller groups.
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goatface posted:Probably. Most of those Carriers should be dead by now, so there's not exactly a "canon" upgrade. That depends entirely on which ships received an actual refit over just repairs, then you have some carriers belonging to a class of aircraft carriers that would later receive certain upgrades. Its logical to assume that a similar refit would take place. Similarly, this could be the first time they've gone through a refit, getting an upgrade that was planned months if not year (s) ago.
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Kibayasu posted:New Zealand is now Grampa Simpson https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=UkJehlr1tEw Oh and this was all while under fire from the Japanese artillery so some of the cooks and accountants got explodified.
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If they were accountants I think this could be considered an acceptable loss, cost of doing business and strategic downsizing.
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GOOD TIMES ON METH posted:I always forget to look this up, what sort of stacking penalties do you get on fleet size? 18 ships seems like a lot For airstrikes, there's a chance to get coordination penalties if you're launching from a hex that has more than 400 carrier aircraft in it (the Allies have a lower limit of 200 at the game's start, then work their way up to 400 by 1944). For ships, the task force moves at the speed of the slowest ship, so it's in your interest to keep ship speeds as even as possible, and also as fast as possible for anyone that's going to be engaged in combat.
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gradenko_2000 posted:For ships, the task force moves at the speed of the slowest ship, so it's in your interest to keep ship speeds as even as possible, and also as fast as possible for anyone that's going to be engaged in combat. Speaking of this, did Grey take that training cruiser or whatever out of the fleet yet? I can't help but notice he didn't show the *full* fleet comp in his screenshot...
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Grey has already outdone the Japanese High Command, at this point he's just running up score. It's odd to think of everything that's changed in my life since he started his original WitP thread. Whole thing started back in 2010-ish. Life is weird.
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two_step posted:Speaking of this, did Grey take that training cruiser or whatever out of the fleet yet? I can't help but notice he didn't show the *full* fleet comp in his screenshot... In the task force screen, you'll see "Moves (m/c) 8/4" in the top left, meaning it moves 8 hexes per phase at max speed and 4 at cruise speed. I forgot just how slow that one cruiser is, but 20 knots can only carry a ship six hexes per phase at max speed, so I suspect he ditched it.
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  The Allies continue to try and land troops at Luganville. Futility does not seem to be word they know.  We trade a fighter for a Liberator, its a worthwhile trade.  The Kido Butai is on its way south again! We should be in place to destroy some more Chinese troops as well. 
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i81icu812 posted:Okay, give me the La Brea as lucky ship number 3.  Now 3/3 on lucky ships. Hmm. What to pick next.
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i81icu812 posted:
Are any of the Kido Butai still available? 
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OpenlyEvilJello posted:24 July 1943 That's all well and good, but how many other Italian ships sank on the beach coming to its aid?
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mercenarynuker posted:That's all well and good, but how many other Italian ships sank on the beach coming to its aid? The Italian military: the Keystone Cops of WW2
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  The strike on Rabaul hits a couple of battleships. Hopefully their armour can absorb a couple of 500lb bombs.  One of our subs tries to take on a destroyer, but it backfires on them.  We see a Chinese force that holds against our attack! This is a rarity!  I'm moving a lot of goods around in the background.  The battleships are fine folks! 
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