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   Another invasion. it seems like this one will work.  Its nice to know I have a decent CAP here.   A dull day. But at least our losses are lower.  Not even anything interesting in the kills list.
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Grey Hunter posted:if I restrict the bombers so they don't reach efte I'm worried about nutering them. At the rate they're going down it's probably the lesser evil at worst. Definitely worth trying out to see if they're still effective. Maybe set them just short of Efate? RA Rx fucked around with this message at 19:46 on Oct 6, 2017 |
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6 October 1943 During the German evacuation of the Kuban Peninsula east of the Crimea, Soviet destroyers made two attempts to interfere. Neither found any transports at sea, but on the second three destroyers came close in shore to bombard German positions. There they were attacked unsuccessfully by German E-boats, but delayed long enough for daylight to enable Stukas to attack. The flotilla leader Kharkov and destroyer Besposhchadny were first damaged and taken in tow by Sposobny. Subsequent attacks sank the two damaged ships outright and then caught and sank Sposobny rescuing survivors. US destroyer Buck, stopped here (south of Sorrento) and sunk by two torpedoes from U-616.
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goatface posted:Rebase them somewhere better. Not as simple as it seems - besides the planes, you need a big enough airfield, you need air support engineer units, you need an Air HQ for torpedoes. There aren't that many good airbase options in some areas and sometimes you need to pick one, invest in it, and stick with it.
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   We bring down a plane on a bombing run.  Well, that was interesting. 
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  We lose a night fighter.  The Allies have another crack at landing troops at Buna.   Most of the day is the standard bombing runs by allied bombers.  I spend most of my time today on logistics – tracking down lost and abandoned ships so I can send them for repairs – these are the ships that took a torpedo and made it somewhere safe, but I never got around to properly sorting.
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Good luck with getting things for fixer uppers.
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Use them to invade the Aleutians.
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 "We just need a new keel, a new torpedo bulge, sand away the rust, straighten the dents, and she's good as new!"
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  Another task force sails into Singapore harbour and pays the price.  And then another!  I sweep south of Rabaul and get even more kills. Today is the day of the surface raiders it seems!  It continues to the south of Singapore.  Two US battleships bombard our men at Jaliut. The losses are heavy. Oddly this is not the precursor to an invasion.  We see more fighting at this training station. Thanks for the targets RAF!  Well, our surfaces ships had a good day! 
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Is the Kido/Kiddo Butai anywhere close to Jaluit? Because those look like some tasty capital ships.
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Still, looks like your own surface ships took some hits. Hope they're not in dry dock for too long. But not a bad surface sweep! lot of nice kills.
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Maya's probably fine. It was only getting peppered by a few 127mm shells, which a heavy cruiser should be more than capable of taking (highly vulnerable torpedo tubes notwithstanding, as they apparently weren't hit). Ikazuchi is in a tad more trouble, what with eating a torpedo and all. Let's hope Grey is even able to get that destroyer back to port.
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Any chance of getting rienforcements to Jakuit or something in range to hit those BB's?
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My lucky ship, the Alabama, is now in the Pacific and showing up in reports. Yay!
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Grey Hunter posted:
The bombardment accomplished more than 3 or so waves of troops.
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Reuben Sandwich posted:What were your men doing Grey? Sitting on the beach working on their tan? but enough about noumea
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  A sub picks off a cargo ship – and it's one of ours for a change!  They send in a mass of bombers instead of this in three or four different waves.  Dammit these are new (for here)– I think my troops moved out of Neomou yesterday, and the AI moved bombers right on it. I see about 50 all told.   I try another attack in China.  So many bombers, showing them all would be madness.  Good sub.
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Keep racking up tankers and AKAs. Both of those will hurt the hell out of the US. AKAs are great kills, vessels specifically designed to funnel troops directly into, and through, beachheads. They carry landing craft, shitloads of marines/soldiers and have a reasonable ability to fire directly inland in support of landing operations. Every one of those gone is great, they commissioned like 100 odd during the war, even used them in Korea if memory serves. Hit them hard. Tankers are tankers, keep killing them.
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Reuben Sandwich posted:What were your men doing Grey? Sitting on the beach working on their tan? It is not exactly that large atoll and not far from sea level, making digging in difficult from BB caliber guns.
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Oh good my sub is not dead. Last time we saw it, it got hit by a depth charge and then we didn't see it for months. I thought it was toast!
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  [img]https://lpix.org/2943882/1].jpg[/img] Here we go again!  The Grunion is on a roll today.  We come out on top again in the air skirmish over Mandalay.  Our returning carriers make a poorly judged attack at the convoy at Buna.  This is followed by a wave of planes out of Rabaul. They at least get hits in.  A sweep takes out a couple more planes.  Another day of attacks force the Chinese into retreat.  That raid cost us a lot of air frames today.  Neither of these are confirmed, but both are likely.
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Grey Hunter posted:Neither of these are confirmed, but both are likely. One of those is yours. Do you not immediately know that your own ship sank?
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Me no smrt. Me Sorry,
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To be honest, I wouldn't have put it past the game not to tell you for 2 days for some nebulous reason like naval command going "maybe they had a radio failure?" And refusing to admit the loss
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11 October 1943 British minesweeper Hythe, torpedoed off Bougie by U-371.
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OpenlyEvilJello posted:11 October 1943 I love torpedoing off the Bourgeoisie. gently caress them and their ownership of the means of production.
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Nth Doctor posted:I love torpedoing off the Bourgeoisie. gently caress them and their ownership of the means of production. I almost threw in a joke about that. Just discovered that my book, which is normally arranged entirely chronologically, for some reason decided to put three days in October '43 out of order, so here they are: 6 October 1943 Japanese destroyer Yugumo and US destroyer Chevalier, sunk during a Tokyo Express skirmish northwest of Vella Lavella. 8 October 1943 Polish destroyer Orkan, sunk by a homing torpedo from U-378 southwest of Iceland. 9 October 1943 British CLAA Carlisle and destroyer Panther, sunk by German aircraft south of Scarpanto Strait in the eastern Mediterranean.
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OpenlyEvilJello posted:I almost threw in a joke about that. Didn't do it's job too well now did it
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bunnyofdoom posted:Didn't do it's job too well now did it Carlisle was apparently the RN's highest-scoring anti-aircraft cruiser, so it kind of did.
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She also wasn't sunk - she made it back to port, found to be not worth repairing, and scrapped in 1949.
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simplefish posted:To be honest, I wouldn't have put it past the game not to tell you for 2 days for some nebulous reason like naval command going "maybe they had a radio failure?" And refusing to admit the loss For capital ships like the Yamato, no one wants to be the one breaking the news to the top brass so you still see it in the game, it moves around like normal, but it silently doesn't contribute anything in battle. This potentially goes on for more than a year.
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Deep Dish Fuckfest posted:For capital ships like the Yamato, no one wants to be the one breaking the news to the top brass so you still see it in the game, it moves around like normal, but it silently doesn't contribute anything in battle. This potentially goes on for more than a year. On the plus side, its fuel consumption goes way down after it has been sunk.
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It's a shame that none of the LPs using some of the modded scenarios people made for this game ever really got anywhere. Some of them have some pretty nifty stuff.
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Deep Dish Fuckfest posted:For capital ships like the Yamato, no one wants to be the one breaking the news to the top brass so you still see it in the game, it moves around like normal, but it silently doesn't contribute anything in battle. This potentially goes on for more than a year. Isn't this basically what happened with Musashi? The survivors of the sinking were distributed out to random poo poo-hole death sentence posts so they couldn't bring down moral with stories about how their super weapon failed to accomplish anything?
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ugh its Troika posted:It's a shame that none of the LPs using some of the modded scenarios people made for this game ever really got anywhere. Some of them have some pretty nifty stuff.
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frankenfreak posted:Be the change you want to see! I am not paying a bazillion bucks for a game that I will be really really awful at. I lack the patience to play super spergy grog sims. Hearts of Iron is more my speed 
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