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Empress Battle axe is a bitching ship name
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bunnyofdoom posted:Empress Battle axe is a bitching ship name Seriously awesome. 
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Sep 22, 2017 13:25
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   Three more ships are hit.  This one is hammered.  Their patrols get another of our subs.  It's getting busy out there.  We wipe out today's deliver.   We torpedo a destroyer.   We are seeing less action in the air.  Three destroyers in one day (four with the older kill.) That's a good day!
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Sep 22, 2017 18:03
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17 casualties = 11 destroyed squads + 6 vehicles? Math checks out.
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Sep 22, 2017 18:31
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They finally sent in combat troops, on the 3rd wave.
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Sep 22, 2017 20:02
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Ograbme posted:They finally sent in combat troops, on the 3rd wave. Of course, by then the defenders should have expended most their ammunition on the previous waves of clerks and field medics.
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Sep 22, 2017 20:05
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22 September 1943 In a continuation of the attacks on convoy ON-202, River-class frigate HMS Itchen's forward magazine explodes after being struck by a Gnat homing torpedo. Of the ship's crew and 81 survivors from HMCS St. Croix and HMS Polyanthus, only three are rescued.
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Sep 22, 2017 20:35
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OpenlyEvilJello posted:22 September 1943 Interest fact about the St. Croix. One crew member survived all this. He wasn't on board. Chester Francis "Frank" Rudolph was involved in a bar fight (Silent hunter flashbacks) just prior to St. Croix leaving on her fateful final mission, and was prevented from shipping out due to a badly cut up hand.Naval officials did not realize initially that Rudolph had not been aboard, as his family received three telegrams stating he had been lost at sea, then rescued, then lost again, all the while he was in a military hospital in Halifax, Nova Scotia.
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Sep 22, 2017 21:19
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Ikasuhito posted:Of course, by then the defenders should have expended most their ammunition on the previous waves of clerks and field medics. [Insert "Pre-set Kill Limit" joke here]
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Sep 22, 2017 21:21
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Zeroisanumber posted:[Insert "Pre-set Kill Limit" joke here] Honestly I was pretty torn between what I wrote and this.
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Sep 22, 2017 21:29
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OpenlyEvilJello posted:"You see, submarines have a preset torpedo limit. Knowing their weakness, I sent wave after wave of my own ships at them until they reached their limit and shut down. Kifu, show them the medal I won." from 2 July
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Sep 22, 2017 22:58
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Any allied soldiers loading up into LSTs at this point in the war must be freaking the hell out.
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Sep 22, 2017 23:48
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Broken Box posted:Any allied soldiers loading up into LSTs at this point in the war must be freaking the hell out. Landing? poo poo's Tough
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Sep 23, 2017 00:31
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Ron Jeremy posted:Landing? poo poo's Tough Didn't the actual troops of WWII call them "Large, Slow Targets"?
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Sep 23, 2017 01:02
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I'm interested in this-verse how Allied landing doctrine seems to be throwing in the first wave almost universally always being support troops in the initial waves. there must be a reason..
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Sep 23, 2017 07:13
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wedgekree posted:I'm interested in this-verse how Allied landing doctrine seems to be throwing in the first wave almost universally always being support troops in the initial waves. there must be a reason.. Well if you commit your best troops to the meatgrinder when the enemy is fresh, what will you follow it up with?
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Sep 23, 2017 11:08
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Zeroisanumber posted:[Insert "Pre-set Kill Limit" joke here] I think i make that joke in a few days time.
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Sep 23, 2017 13:21
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  Our coastal guns continue to do sterling work!  This place must be a story of hell to the Allies.  Is that a new type of Liberator?  Even the Flak is contributing here.  The Allies get enough men ashore to not get wiped out in wave 1!   drat you!  The Air war has gotten quiet quiet.  It won't be long before all the ruined ships from Jaluit start showing up here. I'm sending out the carriers to see if we can't add to the totals!
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Sep 23, 2017 20:12
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Grey Hunter posted:
This can not be allowed. Order an immediate shock attack, drive them back into the sea!
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Sep 24, 2017 01:09
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23 September 1943 German torpedo boat TA.10 (ex-French La Pomone), crippled south of Rhodes by British destroyer Eclipse, scuttled on the 26th. German escort SG.2 (ex-French seaplane tender Saturnus), sunk at Nantes by USAAF aircraft. OpenlyEvilJello fucked around with this message at 03:10 on Sep 24, 2017 |
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Sep 24, 2017 03:08
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Grey Hunter posted:
The B-24D1 was a variant of the B-24D with a modified nose turret to give the bombadier more room.
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Sep 24, 2017 03:58
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  One of our subs is intercepted.  I think we are running low on ammo for our shore batteries.  Nope, they are still there.  Things go poorly for the allies, but I'm still bringing in reinforcements.  We lose more planes on the runway.  The Carriers are heading out, and pick off what can only be a ASW patrol.  Planes from Rabaul find a troop transport.  The afternoon strike is the one that does the damage.  That was a good day!  As normal, I expect more over the coming months.
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Sep 25, 2017 09:15
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Not bad! Some supply ships and a Destroyer aren't a bad way to go.
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Sep 25, 2017 09:32
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APs are always a decent find. What would be really nice is getting that AKA and APA at Jaluit.
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Sep 25, 2017 12:13
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24 September 1943 Italian torpedo-boat Francesco Stocco, sank following damage by German air attack off Corfu.
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Sep 25, 2017 15:11
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  There are going to be some full shipyards after this invasion.  My men are getting fatigued from mowing down wave after wave of American landings. Maybe this is their plan! But my men do not have a predefined kill limit!  Its a fiasco down there. And for once, not one of my manufacturing.  Oh god, get ready for another sub pulse. The Kiddo Butai goes out to finish the job they started yesterday.   The enemy light cruisers are having a bad month of it.  The Allies have far to many ships close to my main naval base.  Balls of steel.  I get some planes up at night. They need some time to get used to this new fighting method, but given time I'm sure we can stop these night raids.   The I-28 gets two hits on the Dane, but pays for it.  We're doing a lot of damage out there.  Two light cruisers in one day!
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Sep 25, 2017 18:57
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Sep 25, 2017 19:09
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I can't remember seeing the whole "assault collapses" thing. It only shows Japanese casualties. What does that mean for allied casualties?
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Sep 25, 2017 19:13
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Ok, they're trying to land a base force, that's sensible. They're attempting to take the base for this force to live in with a number of smaller infantry units, that's fine. Why are they landing them all mixed together in waves? Surely the AI should be capable of identifying combat troops and landing those first.
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Sep 25, 2017 19:41
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Grey Hunter posted:
I have to give the allies credit. Outnumbered 25 to 1 and they still did greater than their own number in casualties.
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Sep 25, 2017 19:54
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Grey Hunter posted:
Who was that? I can't tell if this or the lone destroyer taking on an entire allied BB fleet and surviving was more badass
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Sep 25, 2017 20:19
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Avoid this, Grey. https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=v5MMVd5XOK8 I hadn't seen this in color before.
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Sep 25, 2017 23:50
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Grey Hunter posted:
A Russian (Chinese operated) bomber flying out of a British airfield?
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Sep 25, 2017 23:53
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25 September 1943 US minesweeper Skill, torpedoed by U-593 off Salerno. Bit of a change of pace since most minesweepers seem to succumb to mines.
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Sep 26, 2017 01:17
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Sep 26, 2017 01:35
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Is the AI as much of a goon in tactics as it seems to be?
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Sep 26, 2017 01:42
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Leon Cross posted:Is the AI as much of a goon in tactics as it seems to be? My understanding as a bystander is that at the start of the game the AI randomly picks from a series of overall war plans, like capture Island X, then Y, then Z. When the AI has enough troops and ships on hand for an invasion they go. It's not really designed to account for the Japanese pulling a reverse Midway and maintaining carrier superiority later into the war. So you can get these very one-sided disasters. Eventually the Allies will get enough fleet carriers and gunships and marines to grab those objectives.
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Sep 26, 2017 05:24
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So theoretically this daily engagement gives two sunk or very badly damaged light cruisers, two heavily damaged destroyers (or possibly sunk) and one troop carrier?
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Sep 26, 2017 05:47
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  We keep laying into the invasion force.  More ships are set alight.  The Kido Butai arrives to cause chaos.  Their planes sweep through the skys.  The cargo ships are empty bar supplies now, but they will still look good on my kill board.  This is what happens when you lose all your carriers.  Take that!  The Kiddo Butai is not to be left out in the killing.  Leave not ship afloat men.  Once of the smaller bombers does something for once! You don't see the Allies using their Dive and Torpedo bombers properly.  We see a very one sided fighter duel over Magwe.  It's murder out there, and I love it!  The spike in ship kills is fantastic.
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Nice score jump. More than 100 points in difference when comparing today and yesterday.
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