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fermun posted:Yep. Oh man I am dumb. Didn't read the names of the DDs.
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Apr 10, 2018 16:49
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CannonFodder posted:So those task forces with a E next to them, are they empty of fuel or just out of ammo and thus combat ineffective? Escort, iirc
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Apr 10, 2018 16:53
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CannonFodder posted:So those task forces with a E next to them, are they empty of fuel or just out of ammo and thus combat ineffective? Just means it’s a task force with the mission of Escort. When a ship in a task force gets heavily damaged, it will automatically break off into an escort TF with an escort (if available) and head back to its home port, or maybe just a nearby friendly port. But, you can also make escort task forces manually and put anything you want in them. So, the E task force often means that there’s a damaged ship there, but not always.
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Apr 10, 2018 17:01
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Ow. Brutal surface match but you took out the Iowa! At the cost of nearly all your BB's being in bad shape.. But think you have any chance of taking out the Tennessee as well? She was burning and you have Carriers in the area.. Presuming you're disengaging your surface TF's back to Rabaul is anything going to be ccapable of raiding them bfeore they make it back to port? And why isn't the USN massing carriers? They should have at least.. 4-6 Essex class carriers or CV's that they could have, instead they just seem to be using CVE's as the occasional raider. wedgekree fucked around with this message at 17:51 on Apr 10, 2018 |
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Apr 10, 2018 17:37
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LOL if both Yamato class ships sink.
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Apr 10, 2018 17:44
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What a knife fight. I wonder where my USS Minneapolis has been this whole game
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Apr 10, 2018 17:53
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GH shows us a screenshot of what 1 bomb does to the Yamato but not not a damage report of this major engagement?
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Apr 10, 2018 17:57
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We really need a :cryingmahan: emote for times like these.
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Apr 10, 2018 18:07
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Jobbo_Fett posted:Escort, iirc Bold Robot posted:Just means it’s a task force with the mission of Escort. When a ship in a task force gets heavily damaged, it will automatically break off into an escort TF with an escort (if available) and head back to its home port, or maybe just a nearby friendly port. But, you can also make escort task forces manually and put anything you want in them. So, the E task force often means that there’s a damaged ship there, but not always. And yeah, where's the status report on the damaged ships Grey? The thread wonders.
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Apr 10, 2018 18:16
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CannonFodder posted:And yeah, where's the status report on the damaged ships Grey? The thread wonders.
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Apr 10, 2018 18:35
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The Musashi is just fine and perfectly happy, and in fact Grey is just about to send it to a farm upstate where it can sail around with all the other battleships.
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Apr 10, 2018 18:43
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RIP worlds tallest battleship
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Apr 10, 2018 18:46
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sparkmaster posted:RIP worlds tallest battleship Now if becomes the world's tallest island
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Apr 10, 2018 20:51
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Guys, I'm sure the Musashi is just fine. Yeah, just fine. (Please be fine  )
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Apr 10, 2018 21:51
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sparkmaster posted:RIP worlds tallest battleship Like an iceberg, 10% is above water.
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Apr 10, 2018 22:08
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On the upside there don't appear to be any Allied carriers in the area, the only known Allied ships are disengaging under what is hopefully going to be heavy air attack from Rabaul and the Kido Butai, so there shouldn't be any threats to the ships while they disengage back to port (Other than thier own damage control)..
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Apr 10, 2018 22:10
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TehKeen posted:Guys, I'm sure the Musashi is just fine. Task force is going to have to Scuttle Musashi. If 14 hits can kill a BB, 18 is 
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Apr 10, 2018 22:20
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Jonny Nox posted:Task force is going to have to Scuttle Musashi. If 14 hits can kill a BB, 18 is That E isn’t for escort, it’s for entourage 
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Apr 10, 2018 22:23
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Jonny Nox posted:Task force is going to have to Scuttle Musashi. If 14 hits can kill a BB, 18 is It really depends on the hits. Some of those could be shots fired by destroyers from 5" guns or even smaller. The game doesn't seem to report different types of fire differently.
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Apr 10, 2018 22:30
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And the Musashi is a much fatter truck than the Yamashiro.
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Apr 10, 2018 22:34
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OK, yeah, carrier warfare is NOT becoming dominant for a good long while yet, is it.
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Apr 10, 2018 22:39
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All this defeatism in thread is what's going to cause our glorious battleships to fall. I want to see some real elan here folks, else I'm
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Apr 10, 2018 22:42
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If it's any consolation, the Americans only have three Iowa-class battleships left and we've run through most if not all of the SoDaks and Pearl Harbour battleships.
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Apr 10, 2018 22:56
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Jonny Nox posted:Task force is going to have to Scuttle Musashi. If 14 hits can kill a BB, 18 is The Musashi is: -25 years newer -more than twice the tonnage -50 meters longer -has >8 inch rather than <2 inch deck armor -has 16 inch rather than 12 inch belt armor -more than twice the sailors The ships really aren't that comparable. Now, the Musashi certainly might still be in danger of sinking/already sunk/a sitting duck, but don't write her off yet. Edit: Can the US alter their historical ship-building like the Japanese can? Technically the Illinois and Kentucky should be under construction and could theoretically be finished for the war. With the desperate shortage the US has in BBs now (and the general slow pace of the war), it seems likely those would have been completed rather than scrapped/delayed. Gully Foyle fucked around with this message at 23:25 on Apr 10, 2018 |
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Apr 10, 2018 23:15
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Yeah it's almost impossible to compare Musashi and Yamashiro. For an apt comparison, compare USS Texas with USS Iowa. They're both BBs but a quantum leap apart in design and capabilities.
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Apr 10, 2018 23:29
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Musashi was expressly designed to fight two Yamashiro equivalents at the same time.
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Apr 10, 2018 23:31
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KYOON GRIFFEY JR posted:Musashi was expressly designed to fight two Yamashiro equivalents at the same time. And if it took 14 shell hits to sink Yamashiro, then it'll take at least 28 to sink Musashi! 
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Apr 10, 2018 23:34
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Gully Foyle posted:Edit: Can the US alter their historical ship-building like the Japanese can? Technically the Illinois and Kentucky should be under construction and could theoretically be finished for the war. With the desperate shortage the US has in BBs now (and the general slow pace of the war), it seems likely those would have been completed rather than scrapped/delayed. BB-65 and -66 weren’t even laid down until very late in the war. Using the construction times for the other four Iowa class ships as a guide, they wouldn’t be done until 1947 at the earliest. The game ends too soon, sadly. (They were both originally ordered as Montana class battleships, but the order was changed to an Iowa follow-on, which accounts for the elapsed time between the last of the completed Iowas and the keel-laying of the two follow-on hulls.)
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Apr 10, 2018 23:51
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Flavius Belisarius posted:He thought it was the guy coming to repair his roof.
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Apr 11, 2018 00:37
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Kopijeger posted:Why wouldn't it?  Why posted!?
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Apr 11, 2018 01:05
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How much was the Iowa worth? 300-ish? QE is worth more than a heavy cruiser IIRC.
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Apr 11, 2018 01:09
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How pissed off do you suppose that the British are that the Americans borrowed the QE for an invasion and got it wrecked? I bet the press is just loving savaging them.
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Apr 11, 2018 01:20
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"No no, we'll bring her back completely fine. Won't even need a new coat of paint! Yes, we know we've had a few problems with out invasions so far, but trust us, this one's for real. All we need is to borrow a few transport ships, and we'll turn this whole thing around!"
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Apr 11, 2018 01:30
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Also something something sunk cost fallacy.
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Apr 11, 2018 01:30
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The term "sunk cost" isn't supposed to be literal.
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Apr 11, 2018 01:44
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Zeroisanumber posted:How pissed off do you suppose that the British are that the Americans borrowed the QE for an invasion and got it wrecked? I bet the press is just loving savaging them. It's great for moving troops from safe locations to safe locations, but an invasion craft it ain't. If it got near harbor every defense gun would be trained on it, and hitting it because it's really big. CannonFodder fucked around with this message at 02:05 on Apr 11, 2018 |
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Apr 11, 2018 01:57
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Now I wish that "Most Polite Commander" was an actual military title, similar to "Right Honourable" or other titles for parliament members or other officials.
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Apr 11, 2018 02:02
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Zeroisanumber posted:How pissed off do you suppose that the British are that the Americans borrowed the QE for an invasion and got it wrecked? I bet the press is just loving savaging them.
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First the Royal Navy, now the British monarchy. Is there an english institution Grey won't destroy?
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