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   They flee from the big guns.  Chase is given.  The result a sure thing.  These poor buggers never stood a chance.   One of our subs gets a kill.  American battleships arrive to bring hurt to our troops. There is nowhere to hide on these small islands.   Yet another good day on the high seas!  These things are not worth much on their own, but the troops they carry have been worth sixty points or so. Yet another good day on the high seas! These things are not worth much on their own, but the troops they carry have been worth sixty points or so. I've managed to get the TARDISs controls off the croctopod, so we should be back on schedule now.
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OpenlyEvilJello posted:21 October 1943 Because the Allies decided it wasn't sporting to let the Italians have all that collision fun to themselves, I suppose.
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For the curious, here's the TOE of the naval fort at Jaluit: 6x12.7cm is roughly a good destroyer worth of guns, so very good at hurting landing ships, not very good at dueling battleships.  For comparison, here's the fort at Truk. A decent cruiser task force worth of guns in that one. 
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In no way am I surprised that the TOE specifies the number of searchlights needed for the coastal battery.
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I am entirely unsurprised to see the Katori deployed on yet another search and destroy mission.
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RZApublican posted:In no way am I surprised that the TOE specifies the number of searchlights needed for the coastal battery. This is because the game ostensibly has the searchlight device "shoot" at targets, and hits allow other devices to actually shoot at them. Sound detector devices work the same way against airplanes. As do radars, though the range and accuracy are of course much different between the two.
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Goddamn do I love drowned US Marines.
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Bip Roberts posted:Goddamn do I love drowned US Marines. Usually they just get killed in experimental planes.
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So at Jaluit is it posible teh Allies might go aheadand take the island? That might be kinda awesome.
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  I'm sceptical, but willing to take a shot.   Another nightfighter is lost.  Flak brings down a Liberator!  We miss that supposed CV, but the Butais have cleared up their wear and tear system damage, and can go out on a hunt tomorrow.  A couple of old kills round out the day.
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22 October 1943 British escort destroyer Hurworth, mined in the Dodecanese; with her was the Greek escort destroyer Adrias, which lost her bow but was able to made seaworthy enough to reach Alexandria and was not repaired.
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TheDemon posted:I am entirely unsurprised to see the Katori deployed on yet another search and destroy mission. the pride of the fleet 
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Ghost of Mussolini posted:the pride of the fleet And he even made sure the cruiser TF had it's very own Katori-class as well. The secret command ships of the IJN. Allied intelligence must be going mad with speculation about the Katoris.
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Caconym posted:And he even made sure the cruiser TF had it's very own Katori-class as well. The secret command ships of the IJN. "They must have retrofitted these old Katoris with some serious poo poo. Intel reports them squadroned with 30 knot destroyers"
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  One of subs runs into a depth charge pattern.  A sally by the carriers finds another troop convoy.  More letters home for the enemy to write.  Where are the American carriers? The World Wonders.  Two thousand or so more dead soldiers. This has to be playing badly back in the states. 
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23 October 1943 British anti-aircraft cruiser Charybdis and escort destroyer Limbourne, torpedoed off the Breton coast by German light forces. Charybdis was one of two Dido-class cruisers outfitted with 4x2 4.5" guns rather than the design armament of 5x2 5.25" after the turrets for the latter suffered serious delays (this was also the secondary armament of the King George V-class battleships). For reasons that are unclear to me, the Royal Navy fielded 4", 4.5", two separate, incompatible 4.7", and 5.25" guns in the medium-caliber role, a bit of a logistical nightmare compared with the near-ubiquitous 5"/38 in American service. Charybdis had just been reassigned to reinforce British light forces in the Channel against precisely the threat that killed her. It was her first operation in the new assignment. Also lost this day was the British minesweeper Cromarty, which hit a mine in the Bonifacio Strait between Corsica and Sardinia.
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Not to discount the value of sinking yet another troopship but that seems like a lot of damage to your planes from 2 destroyers. Is that just the game's weirdness talking or could 2 American destroyers really put up that much of a fight against 69 (nice) planes? Edit: Or is this something like there while there were 69 planes in the hex only a few were actually attacking the ships?
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Kibayasu posted:Not to discount the value of sinking yet another troopship but that seems like a lot of damage to your planes from 2 destroyers. Is that just the game's weirdness talking or could 2 American destroyers really put up that much of a fight against 69 (nice) planes? Its because the game often divides units into individual or small group (3) fights resolved consecutively. While this sometimes make sense, it is also a clunky way of representing air to air and air to ground combat because, for argument sake, you would use the fighters to strafe gun positions while the bombers line up for their attack runs, or while they are doing such actions. Not to mention that, depending on squadron and individual pilot ratings, they could peel away from an attack quickly if they get shaken up from damage or near miss, etc.
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And Grey only lost 3 planes to flak this turn.
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mllaneza posted:And Grey only lost 3 planes to flak this turn. One plane for every 500 Allied soldiers 
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   Curse you and your ridiculous sounding name!  Luganville is back to only having to worry about Liberators!  I took a base!  I mean, it's worth bugger all, but its good propaganda, and means the Allies have to try and retake it at some point! 
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The Wahoo is an incredible sub name and its history does not disappoint.
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It's just named after a fish, same as all the other subs in its class. https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Wahoo
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Leperflesh posted:It's just named after a fish, same as all the other subs in its class. At some point, there was a rear admiral with a list of fish in front of him. He saw the name "Wahoo" and underlined it whispering "gently caress yeah" to himself and letting out a little chuckle.
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Danann posted:The Wahoo is an incredible sub name and its history does not disappoint. Yeah, Mush Morton didn't do things half-assed. http://www.badassoftheweek.com/wahoo.html
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24 October 1943 Another British destroyer, the Eclipse, succumbs to that German minefield in the Dodecanese, this time with the loss of 140 soldiers en route to Leros. Marine aircraft sink the Japanese destroyer Mochizuki 90 miles SSW of Rabaul.
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PhotoKirk posted:Yeah, Mush Morton didn't do things half-assed. Grey, does this game model Molotov cocktail stores on board a Gato-class fleet boat? This is very important for Reasons. One weird thing about Morton is that he kinda divvied up the workload during an attack between his XO, Dick O'Kane, and himself during attack runs. Typically, you'd have the Captain on the periscope, and the XO running around doing his thing. Mush, on the other hand, liked to have O'Kane on the periscope, giving the captain more time to plan out his rampage without having to tire himself out searching the scope. Dude liked to sit back and visualize all of the aspects of his warcrimes, you see.
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PhotoKirk posted:Yeah, Mush Morton didn't do things half-assed. including machine-gunning Japanese survivors treading water
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The Curtis LeMay of the seas! Did those life boats have radios? What were their odds of survival if Morton hadn't machine gunned them? Or rather, the odds of a rescue ship for him to pick off...
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Despite the common tendency to refer to the incident as a cold-blooded massacre of helpless survivors, evidence suggests that the Wahoo's fire caused few if any casualties after the ship sank. The ship in question had a fairly low fatality rate, and most of those killed were known to be near the torpedo impact points when the ship was hit - in other words, most of the people who weren't killed immediately survived the incident. Morton's XO (who actually gave the order) claimed that the survivors were preparing to fire on Wahoo, and he shot at them to force the abandonment of stable firing platforms. It is unlikely that Wahoo was in actual danger, as the ship was a civilian-crewed prisoner transport (and thus had few people on board who would try to fight a US sub after they'd already been sunk), but there just weren't enough people killed to support the idea that Wahoo was shooting in earnest. As everyone involved is now either dead or ancient, the truth will never be known for certain.
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Grey Hunter posted:I took a base! Good to see that you are at the offensive again! As Japan should always be. But the big question remains... Did the navy take it by naval invasion, or did the army take it by walking over land? This is important for future budget reviews.
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Dunno-Lars posted:Good to see that you are at the offensive again! As Japan should always be. Yeah, I plan on taking that smaller base once the men are back from the failed new Caledonia invasion - the ships are one the way to pick them up now. Expect a few reefs in about a weeks time knowing my luck! I'm sending carrier cover though!
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  Bad Nightfighters!  I'm always going to celebrate the fluke kills.  This was a really bad idea guys.  This was a worse one!  That was a bad day in the air. Lets hope they don't do that again!
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Grey Hunter posted:Yeah, I plan on taking that smaller base once the men are back from the failed new Caledonia invasion - the ships are one the way to pick them up now.
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Leperflesh posted:It's just named after a fish, same as all the other subs in its class. I was very amused to see that the sub was sponsored by: Mrs. William C. Barker, Jr. And it seems that the ship itself has survived its historical sinking date.
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  drat subs.  Another suicide run today.  They do get a couple of hits in though!  I think I need to cut the range to prevent this.  We bring down a Avenger.  Welp. Lets see if I can stop that happening again!  We really won this one though! Grey Hunter fucked around with this message at 17:58 on Oct 27, 2017 |
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Forgot the 26th, Grey!
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  We continue to lose planes.  The Allies are landing more troops.  My luck is poor at the moment.  The snipers are doing well today.  We do come out on top in Burma.  Time to replace ship losses with air losses.  Thankfully a couple of old kills keeps the balance in our favour!
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So will the AI just keep invading Luganville until it succeeds? Can't you just make the place a fortress and stall them forever there?
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