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   My assault fleet sails into Milne bay bringing death with them.  The PT boats make a break for it. One catches a shell and explodes.  Hopefully my bombers will now focus on the tankers, not the escort.  Two is a good haul!   The Anzio catches a couple of torpedoes. One less CVE to worry about.   That was a nice day! Hitting the Anzio at night meant all her planes were on deck, and went down with her.  She was only an escort carrier though. While a nice kill, her loss will not change the course of the war one bit.
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If you're insane you could easily bombard the Port Morsby airfield since you're already at Milne Bay. e: If I were you I would be running express high explosive delivery to PM like 2 or 3 times a week.
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Plus you can sink whatever shipping is at PM after the bombardment.
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TheDemon posted:If you're insane you could easily bombard the Port Morsby airfield since you're already at Milne Bay. Time for the Japanese battleships to show those aircraft killers how to really kill liberators.
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I dunno how many turns of buffer you have built up, Grey, but unless all the battleships have been sunk between now and the end of the buffer, you totally have to start running them at PM until they do get sunk. (They're all going to be horribly destroyed tomorrow, aren't they?)
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Any report on what sized shell hit the PT boat?
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Bip Roberts posted:Any report on what sized shell hit the PT boat? The "Sunk Ships" picture lists the kill as having been made by a 12.7cm gun, so it was probably one of the DDs that got the kill.
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Grey is going to win this with ship kills before his army even reaches Hell
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Ardeem posted:Time for the Japanese battleships to show those aircraft killers how to really kill liberators. Like, this is legit how you break the "unsinkable aircraft carriers" in WitP. Bombardment is brutal on a stacked airfield.
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Mar 27, 2018 05:35
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Shouldn't the BBs be tasked on attacking all the troops that landed on that island just north of Rabaul? It's right there.
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Yes, it's like a lava lamp.
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TheDemon posted:Like, this is legit how you break the "unsinkable aircraft carriers" in WitP. Bombardment is brutal on a stacked airfield. The IJN proved that in unquestionable fashion.
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I've got a few more things to deal with, and I've run turns to the 30th, but I'll definitely try the bombardment mission. Thought I think it's Port Arthur that's stacked with planes, and its mined IIRC. I'll do some research once I boot the game up again.
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All of us here in IJN Command at Tokyo Bay Fortress are extremely excited about the implementation of this Ichiban Gaijin Murder Plan by the Super Butai, Grey. One more decisive battle and they'll surely fold!
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Grey Hunter posted:
Considering the Anzio was spotted less than 2 weeks prior and was on fire and suffering heavy damage, I'd be surprised if she was still afloat after this.
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Jobbo_Fett posted:Considering the Anzio was spotted less than 2 weeks prior and was on fire and suffering heavy damage, I'd be surprised if she was still afloat after this. They just keep renaming different carriers Anzio to keep up the illusion. This despite the fact that the Battle of Anzio is still being fought.
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So, I take it Milne Bay is this timeline's Iron Bottom Sound?
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Magni posted:So, I take it Milne Bay is this timeline's Iron Bottom Sound? Considering that it was the sight of at least one carrier and battleship kill in a hilariously one-sided naval battle in late 1942-early 1943 and given it's history of merchant and small warship sinkings I'd say that it's really more of a slow motion version of the Great Marianas Turkey Shoot with the massive losses in enemy aircraft coming from those sunk in transport. zetamind2000 fucked around with this message at 23:58 on Mar 27, 2018 |
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  Another raiding force goes north of Rabaul and finds another tanker. Annoyingly, her escort gets a torpedo off and the Kongo takes a hit.  We hit one of the tankers.  A random ship takes a random bomb hit.  There is a second lucky torpedo hit as I raid Kwajalin. We do murder the patrol boats, but I think the enemy has come out on top here.  The PT boats sacrifice gives the main allied task force time to escape.  Well, most of them.  This makes the raid worthwhile in itself. We hit some tightly packed troop ships out of nowhere and kill near six thousand allied troops!  The slaughter continues.  The killing just doesn't stop!  My biggest worry now is that my son will wake before I have time to document all of this!  This is beyond my wildest dreams.  How do they still have any ammo left?  Finally they begin their withdraw, on the way out, they sink another patrol boat for good measure. I can only imaging the captain going “Eh, we have one shell left, lets use it.”  “Don't forget about us.” go the subs.  I sit exhausted and slack jawed at my computer screen. We gained 323 points on the allies today.  That's 18 confirmed sinkings, with about the same number damaged with no hope of crossing the Pacific safely.
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Jesus. Just waiting for the other shoe to drop now... where are the Allied carriers?
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RZApublican posted:Holy hell, it's like you lost Kwajalein just to draw them out for a decisive battle "Just according to Keikaku..."
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Now that is what i call a good start.
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Ehhh, even the DD loss really isn't that significant. Asanagi is an obsolescent-to-obsolete Kamikaze-class destroyer from the mid-20s, as opposed to something valuable. It really shouldn't even be part of a main battle fleet. As for that utter slaughter, hahahaha, really what else is there to say? The wolves are in the sheep pen, and the shepherds are off snoozing somewhere.
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... why are IJN PT Boats worth like ten points and USN ones worth one? Also wowza.
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Jesus Christ the Americans are going to tie FDR to the bow of a troop transport then sail it into the Tokyo Bay Fortress. What the gently caress is this world going to look like after the war? Assuming baseline Ally competency in the various European theaters, I'm assuming the USSR is going to cover most of Europe, except Spain and maybe France (and no way Franco doesn't decide he was actually a Communist all along), as resources get diverted from western Europe to the pacific and thus the Red Army wins the race to Berlin handily and then keeps going. The USA are going to go full fascist after this, no questions asked, and I have no clue what the UK will do.
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I think FDR has already declared that he's not going to run for POTUS in this timeline. If anything, ships and material in Europe's going to just stay in Europe because transfer to the Pacific is apparently a death sentence here.
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So eighteen confirmed dead Allied ships (admittedly over ten are PT Boats), possibly another 15-20 heavily damaged that could sink, 6000 dead in transports (Which is more than taking Kwaejelin in the first place took).. For one old Destroyer. How elite /are/ your raiders at this point?
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wedgekree posted:... why are IJN PT Boats worth like ten points and USN ones worth one? Every loss the IJN takes is essentially irreplacable, while a loss for the USN is merely a temporary setback
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wedgekree posted:... why are IJN PT Boats worth like ten points and USN ones worth one? Going way off base here, but I think the Japanese patrol boats were functionally destroyers.
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Danann posted:I think FDR has already declared that he's not going to run for POTUS in this timeline. The 1944 DNC is going to be such a shitshow.
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Both the Winged Arrow and Kanimbla carried about 1500 troops each, how did so many more troops got killed ? The World Wonders.
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More men were killed by those sunken ships than the deaths between all allied countries involved in the Normandy Landings, Holy poo poo Omobono posted:Jesus Christ the Americans are going to tie FDR to the bow of a troop transport then sail it into the Tokyo Bay Fortress. I disagree, but it will depend on how the war actually ends. Nuke after nuke after nuke might change things. And if Uncle Joe wants to try swallowing up all of Germany and France he will have a present gift wrapped for him in Moscow too. Top Hats Monthly fucked around with this message at 11:41 on Mar 28, 2018 |
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If anything it would make allies prioritize European Theatre even more. I'm surprised we don't see any Allied push from India.
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DO ships have ammo that needs resupply in this? Or only fuel? But jesusu, the raider group doing loving work
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