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This is truly the best timeline.
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sparkmaster posted:This is truly the best timeline. Amazing.
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Apr 3, 2018 05:39
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more like St. Lol
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Apr 3, 2018 06:16
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Once you run out of planes/pilots, just convert the carriers back to their originally intented state of glorious cruisers/battlecruisers/battleships/tourist traps. Then we can finally say that the carrier idea was fun but ultimately unsustainable.
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Apr 3, 2018 06:44
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The Army has been doing pretty well. Just bolt some artillery to the decks of the carriers.
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Apr 3, 2018 07:21
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screenshots showed 33 out of 53 recorded air-to-air losses, so you're again missing 20 losses. It's a worrying discrepancy, I hope we're not missing a major air engagement somewhere...
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Apr 3, 2018 08:36
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Meanwhile, off the coast of Hokkaido... 
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Leperflesh posted:screenshots showed 33 out of 53 recorded air-to-air losses, so you're again missing 20 losses. It's a worrying discrepancy, I hope we're not missing a major air engagement somewhere... No, just a few smaller ones. I can't be arsed to show spitfires shoot down 1 plane five times.
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Grey Hunter posted:No, just a few smaller ones. I can't be arsed to show spitfires shoot down 1 plane five times. Feel sorry for the poor bastard in that plane
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Apr 3, 2018 16:17
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Daduzi posted:Feel sorry for the poor bastard in that plane
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Grey Hunter posted:No, just a few smaller ones. I can't be arsed to show spitfires shoot down 1 plane five times. Ah, fair enough, although it does seem like there's been a significant uptick in air-to-air losses even if you account for the engagements you've been showing. I feel like the allies must be getting good replacement and supplies to their land-based air in the southeast pacific now.
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Speaking of ways to lose airplanes, when do kamikaze attacks become available in the game? Are they worth using for Japan?
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Gully Foyle posted:Speaking of ways to lose airplanes, when do kamikaze attacks become available in the game? Are they worth using for Japan? The US needs to make more than one successful invasion first
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Gully Foyle posted:Speaking of ways to lose airplanes, when do kamikaze attacks become available in the game? Are they worth using for Japan? Kamikazes are activated if the Allies own a base within 21 hexes (traced by sea only) of either Tokyo, Takao or Saigon anytime after 1 Jan 1944.
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Apr 3, 2018 19:58
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It's cool that they ahistorically name the St. Lo after a battle that will take place in 4 months.
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Bip Roberts posted:It's cool that they ahistorically name the St. Lo after a battle that will take place in 4 months. I mean in fairness it would presumably be beyond the game's capabilities (and confusing as hell) to up and change the ship's name in the middle of the game like it was in real life.
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Apr 3, 2018 21:29
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Acebuckeye13 posted:I mean in fairness it would presumably be beyond the game's capabilities (and confusing as hell) to up and change the ship's name in the middle of the game like it was in real life. If you go to the ship reinforcement page, you can edit at least some of the ship names. In my current game, I edited all the Essex class hulls that were renamed for casualties back to their original names.  (And then proceeded to lose Yorktown and Hornet, take serious damage to Lexington and Enterprise, and get all five airgroups THOROUGHLY fuckered in a shittier, less successful battle of the Coral Sea.  )
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Apr 3, 2018 22:43
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Bip Roberts posted:It's cool that they ahistorically name the St. Lo after a battle that will take place in 4 months. edit: Grey, can you post an overall map of the war? You didn't put that in the monthly recap and I'm having trouble visualizing how far out the hero raiders were from Rabaul. And if you can give a map of the ground war in China that would be super nice. CannonFodder fucked around with this message at 23:08 on Apr 3, 2018 |
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Apr 3, 2018 22:57
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CannonFodder posted:If Grey Hunter makes it to 1946 they will send the USS Falluja. It will be really surreal when we start seeing ships named after Iwo Jima and Okinawa.
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Apr 3, 2018 23:09
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gotta visualize your victories.
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Apr 3, 2018 23:34
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I am now imagining a USMC recruiting poster that shows a kitty wearing a helmet holding onto a rope, subtitled "just hang in there", while it is suspended over shark infested waters
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Wait one second, we've had 6 (?) years of this game and we could have renamed our entire carrier force after memes THE ENTIRE TIME?!?!? Please don't
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acidia posted:Wait one second, we've had 6 (?) years of this game and we could have renamed our entire carrier force after memes THE ENTIRE TIME?!?!? You can't rename ships already deployed.
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Jobbo_Fett posted:You can't rename ships already deployed. You can, actually, but it's a bad idea. Their luck stat takes a HUGE hit.
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Log082 posted:You can, actually, but it's a bad idea. Their luck stat takes a HUGE hit. seriously?
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I read an AAR once where the player kept renaming their carriers to "Enterprise" over and over.
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Apr 4, 2018 03:43
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Everyon. I am currently in Tokyo Bay. The fortress lurks.
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Jokes aside how does the Tokyo Bay Fortress stack up in comparison to other shore defenses in the game? Given it's name I'd assume it has some pretty heavy artillery but I've never seen it in action in any of the AAR's I've read.
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IIRC the only ships you can rename in the stock game without dipping into the scenario editor are ships that were historically renamed (Hornet-II, Yorktown-II, Wasp-II etc.) or, as Japan with full economy mode on, ahistorical ships like a second Taiho or 3rd Yamato (Shinano cannot be constructed into a battleship as originally planned).
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SerthVarnee posted:Once you run out of planes/pilots, just convert the carriers back to their originally intented state of glorious cruisers/battlecruisers/battleships/tourist traps.
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   The Allies are using their air cover to move through the Bismark sea with ease.  My god, a Helen hit something!  We claim a couple more Liberator kills.   Okay, I admit it, I sent the raiders back to look for the damaged CVE's... I have a surface raiding problem. Sinking an AA cruiser is going to save me a lot of planes in the long run though!  It's fine, it's not like I wanted any veteran pilots anyway....  I would have only spent them needlessly somewhere else.   I'm so glad no one is bombing my factories....  Our twice torpedoed hero sinks, but I think we made up for it today.
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  We see a heavy cruiser, but she runs from us.  Head for home dammit, you've done enough!  Our ASW patrol finds landing ships. It makes no difference to them.  A surface attack goes bad when the enemy has the gall to shoot back!  We gun down some lone enemy planes.  The Lightnings arrive and mess us up.  Sigh. It's okay, I know what has to be done. GERONIMO!!!! There, back to normal service.  We sink an escort and most likely a tanker too.  Those fighters over Rabaul are killing my pilots in droves!  Things are still going my way though.
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CLAA's are pretty rare (by Allied standards anyways), right? That's a good catch.
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Crazycryodude posted:CLAA's are pretty rare (by Allied standards anyways), right? That's a good catch. Yup
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Were there any US CLAAs other than the Atlantas + the Oakland-subclass? Because we've gotten confirmed or probable sinkings of 4/8 of them now (all 4 of the originals).
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What did the Mochizuki collide with?
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Danann posted:What did the Mochizuki collide with? Tokyo Bay Fortress. It's a hungry beast.
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Operation Report 05/04/44 Combined rescue fleet out of fuel due to lack of tanker/oilier attachments...
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acidia posted:Operation Report 05/04/44 The KB goes to rescue them, but they end up 3 hexes out from Rabaul. During the 3 days to move 3 hexes the combined super fleet sinks every USN Battleship and Carrier because the AI sends the carriers in to fight at knife range. The Queen Elizabeth sinks the Musashi in a suicide run reminiscent of The Last Jedi.
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Lord Koth posted:Were there any US CLAAs other than the Atlantas + the Oakland-subclass? Because we've gotten confirmed or probable sinkings of 4/8 of them now (all 4 of the originals). No. CLAA was a post war designation used to refer to the Atlantas.
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