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Grey Hunter posted:That reminds me, we need a good name for that squadron of raiders. Hey-o! Butai
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Grey Hunter posted:I wish I could get my betties to DO SOMETHING. The checklist of things to make them fly: 1. Are they in undamaged airbases of size 3 or higher with decent supply? 2. Are they in high morale (greater than 50)? 3. Do you have detection levels on enemy transports? 4. Do you have an Air HQ at the airbase that has a stash of torpedoes? (if the "using torpedoes" is red they're not getting any supplied) 5. Do you have air superiority in the target hexes? I'm pretty sure the AI gets to cheat these requirements, which is why AI Betties always seem to be the long-range fist of god while your own barely get off the ground.
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Grey Hunter posted:That reminds me, we need a good name for that squadron of raiders. Supplies!
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Kawaguchi's Killers Bune's Betties Ichii's Interceptors Sokuji's Spiders
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Woodchip posted:through dec 42 I've killed 1970 Bettys. Wiki says 2400 were produced. Does the AI produce more than historical or will they basically run out of Betties at some point? I’m at the start of October 42 in my game and have killed about 1500.
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Mar 1, 2018 16:23
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Mooseontheloose posted:Supplies! Aww yeah, winner!
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Triggerhappypilot posted:The checklist of things to make them fly: There are a number of reports in matrix forum AARs about the importance of detection levels on planes sorties, and even on naval combat. Given how fiddly that is, it’s probably a tough thing to do right.
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Mar 1, 2018 17:03
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Ron Jeremy posted:TF 731 You're working some rough chuckles these days!
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Mooseontheloose posted:Supplies! Looks like meat's back on the menu, boys!!
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Ron Jeremy posted:TF 731 It's me, I'm the idiot that doesn't get the joke My contribution: Autumn Wind
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RZApublican posted:You're working some rough chuckles these days! I was frowny but then part of me needed to attempt to top it. Comfort Wingmen. Yeah... yeah.
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mercenarynuker posted:It's me, I'm the idiot that doesn't get the joke Basically, Unit 731 was a secret part of the IJA, working on biological and bacteriological weapons. Thing is, they experimented on human, and live, specimens. Most of them were Chinese, Korean or Russian people captured, but some Western POWs ended up as ''marutas'' (literally ''piece of wood'', guinea pigs in this case) too. Experiments were things like draining almost all of the blood in someone's body, willingly infecting them with plague and other diseases and watch it's evolution closely, vivisection, freezing people's limbs before breaking them...this sort of things. For the little story, after the war, Douglas Mac Arthur made a deal with the chiefs of Unit 731. He would make sure they never get in front of a trial, and cover up their story, if they gave him the data of their reasearches. They did, and most of those who ''worked'' in the Unit never got punished and died peacefully. Except for 12 of them, who got caught and trialed by the Soviets.
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DarkParchment posted:. Operation Paper
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Yet another reason that MacArthur is among the worst dudes to ever grace a US military uniform.
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Ron Jeremy posted:Operation Paper let's make it culture specific... Operation
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DarkParchment posted:Except for 12 of them, who got caught and trialed by the Soviets. And who, themselves, we're able to trade bacterological information for reduced sentences.
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habeasdorkus posted:Yet another reason that MacArthur is among the worst dudes to ever grace a US military uniform. The stuff 731 did was horrifically monstrous - but a fair chunk of it was also fairly valuable medical data (that was basically unattainable stuff at the time for above stated reason) that probably advanced a number of fields a significant amount. It's not a case of the "science experiments" that the Nazis were doing on people that were generally nothing of the sort. Not that MacArthur wasn't indeed a really lovely person for any number of reasons, but the pardon in exchange for the research data remains in an incredibly gray area, since there was an actual benefit to the pardon.
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Lord Koth posted:The stuff 731 did was horrifically monstrous - but a fair chunk of it was also fairly valuable medical data (that was basically unattainable stuff at the time for above stated reason) that probably advanced a number of fields a significant amount. It's not a case of the "science experiments" that the Nazis were doing on people that were generally nothing of the sort. Should've pardoned them, gotten the data, then charged them with jaywalking and sentenced them to be shoved feet first into a blast furnace. But this is atrocity-chat and Grey has asked us not to do that before so...
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Jesenjin posted:let's make it culture specific... It’s a swan...made out of paper.
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Jesenjin posted:let's make it culture specific... 
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Bold Robot posted:Does the AI produce more than historical or will they basically run out of Betties at some point? I’m at the start of October 42 in my game and have killed about 1500. The japanese AI gets to magically draw planes from thin air to refill squadrons every 7 days (provided the rules for supplies and airbase size/air HQ is met). I'm not sure if the Allied AI has the same loophole or if it's stuck with the historical numbers. The only ways to supress a large Japanese AI airfield is to blockade it so it doesn't get supplies in, or keep it bombed to rubble constantly. Or make sure there's no enigneer units there, Japanese land units have a lot less organic engineer squads than the allies, and only enigneer squads can repair airfield damage.
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One thing to note is that while it's impossible to stop the AI from hilariously overproducing Betties and Sallys to meet demand, The AI is still limited in the number of skilled pilots it can train. If you shoot down that many Betties, you'll notice that their combat ability drops significantly, and the morale of the individual squadrons will plummet due to the losses, which will lead to most strikes turning back before reaching the target. Thus, it's really just a source of free VPs that might occasionally hit a transport or something slow.
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The "only if the conditions for normally drawing reinforcements applies" mechanic also helps. If you can suppress an airbase and its supply line the way you doctrinally should, then it still works.
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What I've been doing so far in the Solomons in my game is just letting my CAP handle the waves after waves of unescorted Betties, etc., then suppressing their airbases before any major operations. I've got Moresby and Luganville built up into large airbases and every 4-engine bomber I can spare set on airfield attack when I'm moving ships around. Bummer they won't run out of Betties, but good to know their pilots will gradually get shittier. The Japanese are already not doing very well against my guys in October 42, I've got like a 4:1 k:d ratio in the air.
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Lord Koth posted:The stuff 731 did was horrifically monstrous - but a fair chunk of it was also fairly valuable medical data (that was basically unattainable stuff at the time for above stated reason) that probably advanced a number of fields a significant amount. It's not a case of the "science experiments" that the Nazis were doing on people that were generally nothing of the sort. Germans organized probably the best study of a prolonged malnutrition on humans in history: https://thecorrespondent.com/5379/this-is-what-hunger-does/358445802-e6acda55 I remember reading a story or a short book about either that research or similar done by a doctor. Scarred my teenage mind. There was a similar theme of finding at least something worthy in the genocide.Until the ending, which was "and after the war the doctor moved to Australia, where people were infinitely more likely to die of eating too much than too little."
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Today I learned there's an Ops Mode of Disorganized. Aka: you got smacked hard a few battles in a row.
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   Those guns are murdering us. I've no idea why their fire is being so much more effective here!  We punish an attack by one of the carrier groups that is constantly circling the area.   That was a really dull day full of bombing runs on the same old targets that did nothing.  Good think it's graph time!  Things look bad for the AI, they should be rapidly appraching parity with me, but they are still riding the bump of taking out the carriers. Although the rate of score change may have gone up a bit.   I was taking high value target after high value target at this stage, they are floudering on bloody atolls.  Neither side has brought the thunder in the air war.  The Allies can do nothing to match the sheer butchery I've been handing out to them for the last two and a bit years.  They've lost more ships than even I did.  The difference in value of those ships is also ridiculous. It's a cliff back in late '42. Grey Hunter fucked around with this message at 19:13 on Mar 3, 2018 |
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Looks like we're missing the 1st. 1 March 1944 After a 14-hour hunt, U-358 puts a homing torpedo into frigate HMS Gould before being sunk in turn by HMS Affleck.
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   This is how you start a day!  A couple of Helens throw themselves away.  It's been quiet here for the last few days.  Don't worry, something has to happen at this point. They are most likely on hold due to another collapse of government.  Keep on feeding Tokyo Bay Fortress.
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  Their guns sweep over our men again.  Hero squadron does it again!  Our subs are doing well at the moment.  Allies in unsuccessful attack [shock]er. I always enjoy seeing the “survivors seek cover message.”  Most of the day seems to spent tabbing through waves of planes hitting Munda to little effect.  Oscars and Nates vs Spitfires is not a fair match. Poor buggers.  They keep on giving it a go though!  The only thing I hate more than this is the ground combat engine.  The afternoon brings more death for our pilots.  See, that's a lot more like it. Even if most of the things that happened today were bad. My poor air force!  We should be back in order - sorry, snow and a sick kid are messing with me a bit atm.
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There's a really interesting history behind those homing torpedoes and the countermeasures developed to counter them! Including the deployment of what are essentially ship-scaled whistle-tips.
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  The Raiders sweep in a do some more damage.  We tangle with the Spits again.   We lose a couple of planes in a night raid.  Our men are bombarded again.  The Kido Butai is out there hunting though.  A fresh attack is launched by the enemy.  Where would I be without my raiders? 
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RZApublican posted:Why are the forces on Kwajalein in op mode? Either Grey forgot to set them to Combat or, more likely, they're in "Disorganized" op mode which happens automatically when disruption is too high.
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3 March 1944 Japanese minelayer Shirakami sinks in a gale near the Kuriles after colliding with IJA transport Nichiran Maru.
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Good thing for them it's backed up by naval guns, I guess. One boat killing about as many of our men as 2000 Allied desk jockeys can. Not sure what that says about them. Or our men, for that matter
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Gort posted:The allied assault on Kwajalein appears to be entirely engineers and non-combat troops. The tried and true Grey Hunter method!
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