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Magni posted:So. Assuming the Allies are still bombing Rangoon on a daily basis. What's even there to bomb anymore? Are they just repeatedly rearranging piles of rubble by now? Gotta calibrate the machines somehow.
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15 April 1944 HMS Storm torpedoes Japanese minelayer W-7 in the Andamans.
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simplefish posted:Cape Wrath Now that's a name!
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Deep Dish Fuckfest posted:Making smaller and smaller rubble. It's an alternative path to nuclear weapons as they'll soon be splitting atoms. Wu-Tang Clan unavailable for comment on the opening of a new gravel pit in Rangoon.
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gradenko_2000 posted:Using China as a training ground for pilots is a legit strategy that's been used by Japanese players to sustain a competent (if not veteran/elite) pilot pool going into the late war, but I don't think that Grey is up to it (not that I blame him). Doing anything in China is a huge pain in the rear end.
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   This is just in case the Allies thought they had escaped my raiding fleets.  Gah! The Spits are back.  drat, that's a lot of Lightnings.  Down you go Mr Liberator.  A couple of Mitchell's are nice as well.   All the Allies are dead at Wake, which is nice.  We have a nice haul of ships as well.  Another ship heads south to join the Kido Butai.
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  We torpedo a nice chunky looking ship.  The raiders are out, but only attract enemy bombers.  Wait, we came out on top for once?  A Mitchell goes down as well.  My fighters are having a good day!  The Allies move to invade Truk.   The enemy carrier planes are still flying around.   I begin wiping out a Chinese division near Chunking.  Invading Truk is drat ballsy. Shame they have only landed a single tank unit.  Hmm, landing craft, dock. Sunk.
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Guess they should have landed at a dock 
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That Landing ship: Dock was the one Grey put two torpedoes into a few days ago, looks like the sub caught it limping home and finished the job.
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I can assure you that dry dock is actually very wet 
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There actually are mobile dry dock units in the game that you can (very slowly) deploy to forward bases. The in-game image for them is just a big gray rectangle with some cranes sticking out of the top. The Allies get a handful and the Japanese get at least one. They are up there with the blimp units in terms of weirdness, though much more useful.
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Blimps are dope for ASW patrol off the pacific northwest.
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I keep meaning to forward-deploy the blimp units to the Solomons for shits and giggles but haven’t gotten around to it.
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Oh yeah, i need to move the blimps up from Pago to Gasmata. Rabaul is target 1 for ijn subs.
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Not a bad couple of days. Bringing down strategic bombers is always nice. Some nice kills there as far as ships go! Even if they don't count for many points. And it worth it to cycle in any more cruisers or escorts to the surface raider group to replace losses or beef it up? wedgekree fucked around with this message at 02:04 on Apr 18, 2018 |
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I got a question about the following image: That LST that shows heavy damage is that from the coastal guns firing or is it damage the ship already has? Just asking as it doesn't say it has taken any hits but it still shows heavy damage.
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Looks like Grey's Zeros have taken to using the Oscars as bait. And it seems to be working !
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koolkevz666 posted:I got a question about the following image: Must be damage that the ship already has if it shows no hits. Could be from an earlier phase of the same landing, though.
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Ships also occasionally run aground, hit rocks, etc. during landing operations. Because of course that's modeled. Oftentimes when this happens, it will end up with >50 flt damage which puts it square in "heavy damage" territory.
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Does anything spontaneously explode Mutsu style ? Could you have a game where your carrier randomly blows up?
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Saint Celestine posted:Does anything spontaneously explode Mutsu style ? I don't think a ship can blow up at anchor but the type of damage that Slippery mentions could in theory sink a ship kind of out of nowhere. Ships can collide or otherwise take unexpected heavy damage, especially when in rough weather or arctic region. If bad enough this could sink a ship on one turn.
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pthighs posted:Blimps are dope for ASW patrol off the pacific northwest. Yeah, there was a blimp base in Oregon. Went and visited it the other day, they still have this massive hangar out there. No more blimps, unfortunately. Don't think the blimps ever saw any subs, though.
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Oh they can blow up. In my 3 games as allies and 1 game as japanese i've lost 2 battleships total to spontaneous detonation in safe harbours, so its not like it happens often, but yes they do in fact have that poo poo in the code as well.
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aphid_licker posted:That would make me so angry Shipyard workers man. What can you do? (IIRC ships can only randomly blow up when under repair, not when just chilling at anchor)
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Just chalk it up in Japanese games as qn Army prank going too far.
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Spontaneous combustion is real and it is my friend
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Saint Celestine posted:Does anything spontaneously explode Mutsu style ? SerthVarnee posted:Oh they can blow up. In my 3 games as allies and 1 game as japanese i've lost 2 battleships total to spontaneous detonation in safe harbours, so its not like it happens often, but yes they do in fact have that poo poo in the code as well. The Manual posted:14.2.1.3 CATASTROPHIC EVENTS Have you considered buying lottery tickets?
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My luck is reliable, but unfortunately restricted to the sudden explosion of own or allied uninsured assets.
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Is that per day or per "repair"? Does it do repairs in tasks or bulk?
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goatface posted:Is that per day or per "repair"? Does it do repairs in tasks or bulk? It’s probably per repair. Repairs are (surprise) very complicated, there’s a thread on the Matrix forums that explains it in detail that I can’t find at the moment. It works something like a ship receives a certain number of repair points each day from the port, which is of course modified by a ton of different factors, and when the ship’s repair point bar is full, a repair occurs. At a large repair shipyard with good naval support that will probably be daily, though. Ship repair, and especially submarine repair, is one of the more annoying parts of the game. Actual repair shipyards only exist in a few places so there’s a lot of juggling of repair ships and shuttling ships back and forth from forward bases to repair shipyards.
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To reduce the risk of random battleship explosions, you have to go into the ships' crew tab and make sure morale is not too low and none of the sailors have the 'disgruntled' or 'spurned gay lover' traits.
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Grumio posted:To reduce the risk of random battleship explosions, you have to go into the ships' crew tab and make sure morale is not too low and none of the sailors have the 'disgruntled' or 'spurned gay lover' traits. IDK whether this is actually a joke or not. I haven't dove that deep into the system.
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It is a reference to the blame-dodging for the Iowa turret explosion, I think.
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Gnoman posted:It is a reference to the blame-dodging for the Iowa turret explosion, I think. The people on that investigation should have been keelhauled. Literally. All of them.
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Zeroisanumber posted:IDK whether this is actually a joke or not. I haven't dove that deep into the system. One of Iowa’s turrets blew up in 1989 because they were conducting unauthorized experiments around overfilling the powder bags to get extra range from the guns while simultaneously having insufficient training for the crew because they couldn’t keep up on maintenance. 47 guys died. The US Navy said that the explosion was intentionally set off by one of the crew who was suicidal because his gay lover had broken up with him. You decide which sounds more plausible.
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Gnoman posted:It is a reference to the blame-dodging for the Iowa turret explosion, I think. Similarly, the Mutsu explosion is generally thought to have been the result of a "disgruntled" seaman, who was accused of theft, deciding to take the ship out with him.
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Caconym posted:Shipyard workers man. What can you do? (IIRC ships can only randomly blow up when under repair, not when just chilling at anchor) The Port Chicago explosion probably isn't modeled.
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gohuskies posted:One of Iowa’s turrets blew up in 1989 because they were conducting unauthorized experiments around overfilling the powder bags to get extra range from the guns while simultaneously having insufficient training for the crew because they couldn’t keep up on maintenance. 47 guys died. The US Navy said that the explosion was intentionally set off by one of the crew who was suicidal because his gay lover had broken up with him. You decide which sounds more plausible. Yeah, I didn't catch the joke because I'm tired and little tipsy. The fact that the authors of that report weren't dragged to the depths by angry sea ghosts only proves that they were ring-knocking, desk jockey fucks one and all.
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mllaneza posted:The Port Chicago explosion probably isn't modeled. It's not to my knowledge. You also can't re-enact the Halifax Blast.
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