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Ron Jeremy posted:Grey is just assuming USN ships will collide with merchantmen in the strait. 
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KYOON GRIFFEY JR posted:WitP.txt It's not unreasonable to model the surrendering defenders spiking their guns.
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gohuskies posted:It's not unreasonable to model the surrendering defenders spiking their guns. Is it unreasonable to think that after controlling the city for over a year that they couldn't manages to scrounge up some kind of defence?
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Ikasuhito posted:Is it unreasonable to think that after controlling the city for over a year that they couldn't manages to scrounge up some kind of defence? Grey simply sinks all his ships before they can take the guns off of them for such installations 
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Ikasuhito posted:Is it unreasonable to think that after controlling the city for over a year that they couldn't manages to scrounge up some kind of defence? Grey has the requisition on his desk. It's near where the one for replenishing fighter pools was.
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gohuskies posted:It's not unreasonable to model the surrendering defenders spiking their guns. Sure, the Changi battery was completely destroyed by the Commonwealth forces, but it's not very hard to get the ubiquitous, somewhat obsolete Type 45 203/41 emplaced at the key points, which the Japanese did at Tarawa and Wake Island. Those will gently caress up a CLAA good.
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All the naval defense batteries went to Rabaul, all the ammunition went to Singapore.
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Turns out the big guns were assigned to the air Force and nobody thought to look. Meanwhile an army unit in Mongolia is sitting on a stockpile of torpedoes
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Grumio posted:Meanwhile an army unit in Mongolia is sitting on a stockpile of torpedoes They'll make for great improvised anti-tank weapons when August Storm rolls around.
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gradenko_2000 posted:There's also the story of Dudley "Mush" Morton's order to machine-gun survivors in the water from a Japanese troop-ship that his submarine had sunk. While it is certain that the Wahoo fired at the survivors of the sunken Buyo Maru, the exact circumstances are in doubt. Morton's exec, who is the one who actually gave the order (although Morton bears final responsibility in anything that happened aboard his boat), claimed that the survivors were trying to set up weapons to fire on the submarine, and that the brief fire was merely intended to force temporary abandonment of the boats (which would prevent the floating survivors from a stable firing platform) until the sub was away. Accounts from the survivors, many of whom were not Japanese troops but Indian POWs, state that no resistance was being attempted, but several of the Japanese returned fire with handguns after Wahoo started shooting. The fact that there was a very high number of survivors from the Buyo Maru (only about 20% of the people on board were killed, including those lost in the initial torpedo impacts - given the way the Japanese tended to pack POWs in, those impacts were probably enough to kill most of the prisoners who died in this incident) tends to support Morton's account (as a deliberate massacre could easily kill a great many people in those circumstances), while the fact that most of these were POWs weighs heavily against it. It is entirely possible that both were telling the entire truth as they saw the incident, but it is also just as possible that the incident was a brief surge of bloodlust or redlining that they tried to cover up later. As Wahoo was lost with all hands 8 months later, there are few eyewitness accounts of the American side of the incident, so it is very difficult to determine what happened on the boat itself.
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22 August 1943 German torpedo boat TA.12 (ex-French Baliste), sunk off Rhodes by air attack.
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   Nothing at all happens in the morning, so this is an afternoon attack.   Another damaged airframe is blown up.   This is heavy losses for an out of the way base.   More mysterious kills.  One confirmed kill.
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KYOON GRIFFEY JR posted:Sure, the Changi battery was completely destroyed by the Commonwealth forces, but it's not very hard to get the ubiquitous, somewhat obsolete Type 45 203/41 emplaced at the key points, which the Japanese did at Tarawa and Wake Island. Those will gently caress up a CLAA good. It's GH's business where he places his coastal defense gunnery units, not the fault of game mechanics.
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gohuskies posted:It's GH's business where he places his coastal defense gunnery units, not the fault of game mechanics. Most are static, meant to indicate permanent forts. The Japanese only get a tiny handful of mobile base forces with dual purpose or CD guns, and even those with just a tiny handful of 80, 120 or 140mm guns. I think there's one or two mobile units with 200mm CD guns? Is the wake island battery mobile or static? Tarawas is static I think? Using any of the mobile units at Singers doesn't make much sense tbh, Rabaul and Luganville are the obvious candidates where they'd do the most good.
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I have spent the last two weeks reading from start of the LP to current - great read. Also, I think my first little one must be about the same age as your first little one.
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Electric Wrigglies posted:I have spent the last two weeks reading from start of the LP to current - great read. Also, I think my first little one must be about the same age as your first little one. ONE ONLY OH GOD NO MORE. He's coming up on 17 months and learning many new worlds - Started with Kitty (not counting Ma Ma Ma and Da Da Da) and is now working his way though the various foods. He's also doing his rehearsals for the terrible twos. Grey Hunter fucked around with this message at 11:53 on Aug 23, 2017 |
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The next words will be "battleship", "carrier", "sunk", and "shank". And "clunk", can't forget clunk.
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Mikl posted:The next words will be "battleship", "carrier", "sunk", and "shank". And "clunk", can't forget clunk. And "stratigic".
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Palladium posted:And "stratigic". "Defiantly"
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Grey Hunter posted:ONE ONLY OH GOD NO MORE. They're all different. Having more than one let's them direct their energy at each other As for the tantrums, maybe just give him the divisional command in China he wants?
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Mikl posted:The next words will be "battleship", "carrier", "sunk", and "shank". And "clunk", can't forget clunk. I'm guessing his first book will be Betty and Kate go to Eniwetok. Or possibly Nate and the mystery of Tokyo Bay Fortress.
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Mine is a actually a little bit older so can tell you terrible twos ain't so bad - more interesting than the crying, eating, making GBS threads machines they are as newborns. Can I have USS Aaron Ward (DM-34) as my lucky ship? I kind of want to root for a Japanese ship to support the underdog but the book (Brave Ship, Brave Men) this ship was about got me right into the Pacific theater as a youngster.
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Electric Wrigglies posted:Mine is a actually a little bit older so can tell you terrible twos ain't so bad - more interesting than the crying, eating, making GBS threads machines they are as newborns. Done.
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Comrade Koba posted:I'm guessing his first book will be Betty and Kate go to Eniwetok. There are things to which small children should never be exposed.
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Ron Jeremy posted:They're all different. Having more than one let's them direct their energy at each other Bugger that. Hes starting at a Company commander and working his way up - there is no Nepotism in this mans army! He just needs to get off his rear end and toddle over to that hill and take it, then I can get him promoted to Major at Battalion, and its plain sailing from there.
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Mikl posted:The next words will be "battleship", "carrier", "sunk", and "shank". And "clunk", can't forget clunk. GH: say "bombard" Kid: shock! GH: no, "bombard" Kid: shock!
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Comrade Koba posted:I'm guessing his first book will be Betty and Kate go to Eniwetok. Or possibly Nate and the mystery of Tokyo Bay Fortress. The real problem is when he grows up to quietly shut himself in the room with "Betties Go Down on Prince of Wales."
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Reuben Sandwich posted:More like Oh my, this post.
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WHERE IS CLEAN DIAPERS RR THE WORLD WONDERS
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Reuben Sandwich posted:More like Oh my god. That's perfect.
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Reuben Sandwich posted:More like 
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Hopefully Grey's toilet training program is better than his pilot's.
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So is your kid army, navy or air force? Maybe strategic?
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Reuben Sandwich posted:More like 
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Reuben Sandwich posted:More like lmao
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Sometimes this forum produces such wonderful jokes that are both totally insular and have required literally years of set-up time.
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gradenko_2000 posted:Hopefully Grey's toilet training program is better than his pilot's. POOP SPOTTED AT 4NM, ESTIMATED ALTITUDE 20,000 FEET. *clunk*
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PhotoKirk posted:POOP SPOTTED AT 4NM, ESTIMATED ALTITUDE 20,000 FEET. The baby's constipated again dear.
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Reuben Sandwich posted:More like Valiantman posted:Sometimes this forum produces such wonderful jokes that are both totally insular and have required literally years of set-up time.
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