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Saint Celestine posted:Should've saved the Goeben... Ahem, that's Yavuz Sultan Selim to you.
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goatface posted:I think there's a full-size ironclad-with-sails somewhere. Probably would only class as a cruiser in size though. https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Hu%C3%A1scar_(ironclad) This is the one that comes to mind when people mention ironclads that are still around.
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shalafi4 posted:https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Hu%C3%A1scar_(ironclad) That's a bote with a checkered career. Built for Peru, she was stolen by rebels and sailed as the next best thing to a pirate. She fought a Royal Navy task group and suffered the first attack by a self-propelled torpedo. She won one battle against Chile, but was captured in the next. She fought against her original owners and helped win the naval war. And then, oh yes, stolen by rebels again. The Chilean Navy was on the rebel side so Huascar was used for prosaic things like shore bombardment and convoy escort instead of more piracy. She still exists and I'd love to head south to see her some day. mllaneza fucked around with this message at 03:53 on Sep 13, 2017 |
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   drat you! I hope you sink!   Their long range bombers take out a plane.   It's blow planes up on the ground day!   We find a couple more victims.  We take a hit from a sniper.   It looks like we found some ships with planes on them – 6 destroyed on the ground.  A sub! Mwha ha ha.
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This attack will be your finest hour, Grey. I can feel it in my bones.
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12 September 1943 Italian torpedo boat Audace, captured at Venice, renamed TA.20, and repaired.
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MA-Horus posted:I wrote a paper on the battle of the Tsushima straights for a 4th year Russian History class Also because of the incident in the North Sea, the British closed off the quick route to the Russian Fleet, so they had much further to travel.
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The Yamato and the Musashi together DO make a pretty large target, but 10k feet is still a bit silly.
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So apparently a hoe is a type of dogfish.
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I'd honestly think whatever algorithms they use for calculated bomb hits would have been changed years ago, because level bombers being as accurate as they are in-game really is ridiculous. Yes, huge portions of Japan's fleet and merchant marine were sunk by air attack, but the vast majority was by carrier aircraft and their landbound equivalents, or by light/medium bombers doing very low altitude attack runs and/or skip bombing - not 4-engine heavy bombers. And those ships that were victim to heavy bombers were generally those in port during heavy raids.
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   We get hits on another enemy sub.  Oh look, we do have subs. Did.  It's a sub day.  Our Bettys go out.  I take another crack at a enemy unit.  Sometimes the subs come out in waves.  Only one today though, that's not bad.
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  Another ship takes a hit.  We find a couple of light cruisers. This is a nice kill.  Another plane is brought down by flak.  Again, the spirited defence on day 1 cannot be sustained by Chinese troops.  Nothing on the kill board yet.
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13 September 1943 Italian corvette Lucciola, sabotaged at Castellamare do Stabilia on the Adriatic. 14 September 1943 Italian torpedo boat Giuseppe Sirtori, beached on Corfu following severe damage by German aircraft.
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Jobbo_Fett posted:Maybe 
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Cartoon posted:That will make it two CL Leander classes I've had sunk from under me. If Grey could only take a minute to stop getting my ships sunk, I could tell everyone about how great MacArthur is. -Fred
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I'm targeting your ships specificly.
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Grey Hunter posted:I'm targeting your ships specificly. No target my ships. I want them all to sink already. 
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Nth Doctor posted:If Grey could only take a minute to stop getting my ships sunk, I could tell everyone about how great MacArthur is. -Fred I appreciate this post
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Nth Doctor posted:If Grey could only take a minute to stop getting my ships sunk, I could tell everyone about how great MacArthur is. -Fred Hahaha I'd completely forgotten about that guy
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  Take that you bugger.  Nope. Not here either.  We bring down a liberator.  Then a second.  The Betty's get another hit.  Then the carriers take out a troop ship.  I've hit this one before.  We finish off the last of the enemy at Taiyaun.  A nice day for us!  Shame I didn't get the Growler confirmed.
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  The battleships storm into Noumea harbour.  Three more go down.  They slam shells into the island afterwards.  Another group of Bettys go out, it looks like replacements are getting out in good numbers now.  Which is a good thing.  I think I still need more fighters though!  Crap, they have a carrier! An escort by the size, but it still hurts!  We take a hit from a sub.  A good day until the end there.  This is good.  This, not so much. But it shouldn't be fatal. There are no fires, which is good.
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Oh god. They'll be back tomorrow, so I hope you have CAP up over your battleships. Also, do you have to be in Noumea's hex in order to bombard? I thought you could do it from an adjacent hex. And also also, maybe simultaneously do a troops-based bombardment?
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16 September 1943 Italian escort destroyers Impavido and Ardito, captured at Portoferraio, Corsica. Italian torpedo boat Giuseppe Dezza, captured at Fiume. German forces also captured a number of escorts under construction, completing several for service.
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Leperflesh posted:Oh god. So just when I thought Noumea couldn't become an even bigger overcommitment, GH sends Yamato, Musashi and a bunch of other battlewagons in. That's a hell of a limb you've gone out on, Croctopus. Let's hope it doesn't get sawn out from under you.
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Grey Hunter posted:
Well, once you pop...
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Ahaha ha is the Yamato claimed?
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Grey I may have jinxed you uhh my bad
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gently caress it, chase down the carriers! Put Musashi in a tiny task force that will go back and bombard Noumea
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Suppose that the Yamato could always be sunk by B-17's.. And we should make a tally I suppose? On each day if Grey can shoot down more B-24's/29's than he loses ships?
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CannonFodder posted:gently caress it, chase down the carriers! Put Musashi in a tiny task force that will go back and bombard Noumea Nothing like putting on Operation Ten-Go mid 1943.
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My bad, Yamato was the one that ate some torps. have her and Nenohi bombard and have the rest chase down the carriers, her speed is a hindrance to the rest of the task force.
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TildeATH posted:Ahaha ha is the Yamato claimed? It has. Dont sink my ship Grey! I like her just the way she is.
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Leperflesh posted:Oh god. You have to be able to enter the hex in order to bombard it, but I believe it's possible to craft your orders in such a way that the TF will sail in, do their thing, and then sail out and be out of the hex (the actual distance depends on TF speed) within the same inter-turn processing. It's also the case that a TF must specifically be set as a Bombardment mission TF in order to bombard, and that setting them in this way makes them weaker at surface combat. It just didn't matter in the specific case of those three cargo ships that they encountered since they were so small.
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Finally sighted my ship the Mikuma. We saw her once at the beginning of the war and then nothing for 18 months.
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   We take a hit, but the escorts score big and get us some revenge.  One of our patrol boats gets taken out.  This one makes a surface attack – I don't have enough escorts for everyone!  I've got a captured GI who keeps saying all is good here and could they send in another unprepared wave of troops. It seems to be working so far.  We lose a bunch more Bettys to the CAP.  An afternoon wave gets a hit though.  Our carrier based planes also make it through.  Curses. A dud.  I'd like to use this picture as proof my subs ARE out there!  We lost a whole load of planes again. And a base somewhere.  Only an old kill for us today.
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  Wham! Take that you! That might even be enough to finish her!  I have to assume they are short of ammo after the bombardment.  Our ship tries again, but is hit by the escorts.  We lose some more bombers trying to take out another light cruiser.  I have no idea what these guys are doing here.  They hit Magwe at night and take out a plane.  Another day of heavy air losses, at least there is another wounded light cruiser out there!  Neither of these are fully confirmed. Sorry for the sporadic posts, the kid has Chickenpox!
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No follow up hits on Yams, huh? Guess she'll be okay. Shame they didn't open up on that huge convoy.
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45 ships run into each other, but instead of fighting they just sort of awkwardly avoid eye contact and sail right on by.
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