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Bold Robot posted: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. Following up on this, here is the thread I mentioned with info on how repairs work. 
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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. Should have blamed it on possession by a ghost of Jackie Fischer instead.
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   Nope! They have carriers near Truk!  We get a rare strike on a destroyer.  The Hornet II proceeds to maul the ASW ships stationed at Truk. I had put them into a combat group to try and hit the landing craft, but this is a different game entirely!  They pay the bomber tax.  This is not a bad trade.  This is better though!  Truks' two dive bombers meet a sticky end.  This is a second carrier group.   We find and obliterate a group of army HQ's.  It's just a matter of time for this force!   The question now, do I sally the Kido Butai to engage? I feel like I need to at least try – I just got another two squadrons of dive bombers, so they just gained 40+ planes. Lets lose a carrier as well as a battleship eh!  Trading points here.
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Impressive coordination by the AI here if it's actually covering its landing with a carrier task force. Still time for it to turn out that its sending base forces in as the first wave, of course.
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Still confused as to how a Japanese Patrol Boat is worth just as many points as a US Destroyer. Does the KB have full airgroups at least or close to it?
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You've got a good shot if you can only engage the group near Truk. It's only a CV and a CVL so hopefully you can overwhelm them with numbers.
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Apr 19, 2018 07:25
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What's the repair status of the KB at this point?
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Grey have you noticed that you still have over 700av points of buffer in Manchuria? You really should take the time to enable maximum exercise potential for the army by moving at least 600av worth of rookies to participate in operation Charnel House. It'll look good on your resume if you can add "Showed excellent leadership and motivation, enabling thousands of warfighters to achieve their true potential across the empire"
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Apr 19, 2018 07:37
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wedgekree posted:Still confused as to how a Japanese Patrol Boat is worth just as many points as a US Destroyer. This was explained last time you asked, apparently imperial Japan loved to make ginormous torpedo patrol boats
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Apr 19, 2018 12:04
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That Patrol Boat has more tonnage than a Fletcher-class Destroyer.
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Splode posted:This was explained last time you asked, apparently imperial Japan loved to make ginormous torpedo patrol boats It reminds me of the current trend of Japan to make ridiculously outsized "helicopter-destroyers". This destroyer comes in at over 20 000 tons, and is nearly as long as the Yamoto I know that the destroyer classification sort of fits, since it's intended role is ASW.
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Apr 19, 2018 16:00
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Gully Foyle posted:It reminds me of the current trend of Japan to make ridiculously outsized "helicopter-destroyers". A "pocket carrier", if you will.
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Apr 19, 2018 16:45
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Gully Foyle posted:It reminds me of the current trend of Japan to make ridiculously outsized "helicopter-destroyers". That's just Japan trying to keep their fig leaf of "we don't maintain armed forces with offensive potential."
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Gully Foyle posted:It reminds me of the current trend of Japan to make ridiculously outsized "helicopter-destroyers". If I'm not mistaken this is the same kind of legalistic jiu-jitsu that leads you calling the Admiral Kuznetsov-class an "aviation cruiser" so you can rules-lawyer your way through the Bosphorus without violating an international treaty
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Gully Foyle posted:It reminds me of the current trend of Japan to make ridiculously outsized "helicopter-destroyers". That sent me down a bit of a wiki-dive on the SeaRAM system it uses for defense, which led me to this video showing 6 minutes worth of launches. I love the way the end caps get blown off with a dainty *foot* before the missiles go screaming downrange. https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=gZkTsQDO8Yw
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Kinda feels like non-combat units are a bad fit for this game. The AI has no idea how to use them, they just exist so players can gently caress up and get them all massacred.
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It's not like they're useless, in fact they're incredibly important because you need them to build airfields and support the combat units and poo poo. But the AI is an idiot so yeah it just sends wave after wave of cooks and typists towards the beaches.
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gradenko_2000 posted:If I'm not mistaken this is the same kind of legalistic jiu-jitsu that leads you calling the Admiral Kuznetsov-class an "aviation cruiser" so you can rules-lawyer your way through the Bosphorus without violating an international treaty The CV designation that our carriers use literally means "aviation cruiser." Cruiser, voler.
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McNally posted:The CV designation that our carriers use literally means "aviation cruiser." Cruiser, voler. For the longest time I thought the designation actually stood for "Carrier Vessel". That'll teach me to assume that a US Navy hull classification symbol is in English 
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RZApublican posted:For the longest time I thought the designation actually stood for "Carrier Vessel". That'll teach me to assume that a US Navy hull classification symbol is in English AFAIK, they usually are, but "CA" was already used for Cruiser, Armored, so bird farms got assigned the classification symbol CV.
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Gort posted:Kinda feels like non-combat units are a bad fit for this game. The AI has no idea how to use them, they just exist so players can gently caress up and get them all massacred. The game is like 90% logistics and you spend waaaaaaaay more time with your non-combat units than your combat units. The AI is not great but the game without non-combat units would be completely different. I don’t mean this as a knock against Grey but this LP does not give you a good sense of just how much of the game revolves around stuff that is at best indirectly connected to combat.
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Exactly. This game is transport tycoon with occasional explosions.
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Splode posted:This was explained last time you asked, apparently imperial Japan loved to make ginormous torpedo patrol boats Dammit I apparently have the memory of a goldfish. Thanks for the explanation.. AGAIN.
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darthbob88 posted:That sent me down a bit of a wiki-dive on the SeaRAM system it uses for defense, which led me to this video showing 6 minutes worth of launches. I love the way the end caps get blown off with a dainty *foot* before the missiles go screaming downrange. cute lil bits quilted popping off before the real poo poo goes off is surprisingly common, like the nosecap on a road mobile Topol https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=QIzXI-mlJjs or the way the pusher plate quietly rockets out of the way of the main engines on an ss-18 https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=79pPazsxdsA
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  And we're back to Spitfires murdering me.  You can tell it's the Zero's off the carriers who are carrying the air combat here.  The target is still in the area.  Another wave of troops come ashore.  The fortress guns rain down fire and death!  Meanwhile, our troops eliminate the first wave of the 77th Infantry division.  It's another day of heavy losses for the Chinese.  A poor day in the papers for the allies as yet another invasion flounders on the beaches.
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So the Allied first wave was.. A hundred men?
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If the KV Moncton is this Moncton: https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/HMCS_Moncton_(K139) ...then why is it KV, not FS? Kor Vette? e: and she shouldn't be on active duty in the Pacific yet wikipedia posted:Moncton was transferred to the RCN's Pacific Fleet in January 1944 and departed for Esquimalt, via Guantanamo Bay, Cristóbal, Balboa and San Pedro. Upon her arrival, she was tasked to the Esquimalt Force (unallocated) and underwent an extensive refit at Vancouver from 5 May - 7 July 1944 where her forecastle was extended and she was brought into line with the modified Flower-class design. From July 1944 to December 1945 she was tasked to Pacific Coast Command (unallocated). Sounds like she should still be en route, arriving in May, then being refitted til July in Vancouver simplefish fucked around with this message at 06:31 on Apr 20, 2018 |
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uPen posted:Exactly. This game is transport tycoon with occasional explosions. This is best thing i've seen today.
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Next LP Transport tycoon! I've not played that game in twenty years...
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wedgekree posted:So the Allied first wave was.. A hundred men? Which was apparently also a full infantry division.
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Bip Roberts posted:Which was apparently also a full infantry division. We’ve taken our best men from Wyoming and given them their own division
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Bip Roberts posted:Which was apparently also a full infantry division. It was a part of of an Infantry division, hence the "/9"
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simplefish posted:If the KV Moncton is this Moncton: https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/HMCS_Moncton_(K139) FS is STANAG, the pennant number for Commonwealth corvettes was K. Corvette/korvetten, and too many things have Cs.
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simplefish posted:If the KV Moncton is this Moncton: https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/HMCS_Moncton_(K139) Well, it is a Corvette, which is given the KV designation. And it was a part of the Pacific Fleet in 1944, so there's no reason why it couldn't be re-routed for convoy escort duty in April. Not only that, but in REAL LIFE it went for a refit, but such refits are not mandatory, and the player can choose to ignore doing so.
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wedgekree posted:So the Allied first wave was.. A hundred men? Almost like they got hit by a Truk  I'll see myself out
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So, Grey, what can you do with 11,700 political points?
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Leperflesh posted:So, Grey, what can you do with 11,700 political points? *The Soviet Union capitulates*
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That is a lot of political points. Not sure how much stuff costs for Japan but you could buy like 4 US divisions for that.
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You could also change every ship captain, squadron commander, and unit leader on the entire map to weed out all the bad ones.
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Generation Internet posted:You could also change every ship captain, squadron commander, and unit leader on the entire map to weed out all the bad ones. That sounds like a really lovely afternoon spent.
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