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I hope Rabaul has enough celebratory Suntory on hand for these victorious raiders. And lol at finding a random modern armored cruiser. That's the Grey I remember.
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May 12, 2018 18:18
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12 May 1944 Russian aircraft sink M-372, a German minesweeper (not mines this time!) off Swinemünde. Side note: I really wish accented letters were more organized in alt codes.
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"It's called 'fleet-in-being,'" said the captain of the Myoko, looking up from his sake-on-the-rocks; "it means we don't have to do anything right now."
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May 12, 2018 19:47
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The author of Japanese Destroyer Captain will probably have some good tales of live-training cruiser Katori and his efforts to get her off the front lines already among all the other wild events in Greyverse.
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Danann posted:The author of Japanese Destroyer Captain will probably have some good tales of live-training cruiser Katori and his efforts to get her off the front lines already among all the other wild events in Greyverse. Due to a mixup at HQ the Myoko was listed as training in Balikpan and the Katori was marked as a heavy cruiser for combat. Despite constant complaints and corrections from the field they refused to admit the error.
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Danann posted:The author of Japanese Destroyer Captain will probably have some good tales of live-training cruiser Katori and his efforts to get her off the front lines already among all the other wild events in Greyverse. Honestly, Hara's book would probably be incredibly dull in this timeline. Amatsukaze hasn't been seen for over a year now and, even if he did move ships for some reason given it was undamaged last we saw, Shigure hasn't been spotted for the entire LP - literally the only one of the Shiratsuyu-class that hasn't appeared. Apparently it has been languishing in Sasebo port or something, forgotten by Grey (not necessarily a bad thing).
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Katori may be gone but her sister Kashima is still raiding. She appears just below Takao in this image:  There's a third sister, Kashii, but we apparently haven't seen her in two years. We haven't seen Hiei or Kirishima in a year and a half, either, which is surprising to me given the amount of action our battleships have seen (neither was damaged when last seen near Darwin). They'd make a pretty powerful covering force for the raiders.
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May 12, 2018 23:01
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Speaking of, I'd like to claim Kashima as my lucky ship (if that's still possible). The USMC will surely never hit her pre-set kill limit!
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I just found out my lucky ship was sunk  If its possible to get another, the USS Duluth would be nice. Top Hats Monthly fucked around with this message at 12:36 on May 13, 2018 |
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May 13, 2018 12:23
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So does Grey have any other older capital ships that might be around? Couple older BB's or Cruisers which might be worth it to rotate into the raider force if they take damaged? And howmany of those damaged ships are likely to end up as sunk later in the month? Good job so far! And I guess what's the status of your own carriers? At least those that are capable of operations - CV's, CVL's,CVE's that are spread out if any or those in dockyards under repair/refit? wedgekree fucked around with this message at 15:05 on May 13, 2018 |
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Top Hats Monthly posted:I just found out my lucky ship was sunk Done
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May 13, 2018 14:30
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OpenlyEvilJello posted:Katori may be gone but her sister Kashima is still raiding. She appears just below Takao in this image: There's nothing wrong with an 18knot cruiser being part of a raider force, the enemy will never expect the IJN to approach so slowly, clearly it will catch them by surprise.
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Bold Robot posted:What the hell did the AI have tankers up there for? That’s way behind your lines. https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Fire_ship Clearly the AI tried to improve the performance of their landings by beaching flaming hulks full of crude first.
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wedgekree posted:So does Grey have any other older capital ships that might be around? Couple older BB's or Cruisers which might be worth it to rotate into the raider force if they take damaged? And howmany of those damaged ships are likely to end up as sunk later in the month? Good job so far! Every other still-floating BB we've seen this year, but there are a few other CAs that we haven't, at least a couple of which ought to be available:
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May 13, 2018 15:59
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Given Grey's crazy lead and the AI being incompetent as possible; Are there any crazy goals he can go for to spice things up? (The kinda goals that are in the realm of possibility, not invading Cali. Lol.)
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Leon Cross posted:Given Grey's crazy lead and the AI being incompetent as possible; I think that's why we're seeing the 100 ship thing this month
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May 13, 2018 16:40
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Not to mention Operation Charnel House, which is crazy enough already.
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Leon Cross posted:Given Grey's crazy lead and the AI being incompetent as possible; Pearl 2: Raid Harder.
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I've figure it out, PACCOM thinks that if they pollute the home islands with enough oil and then drop a gigantic match they can just light the Pacific on fire, destroying all the Japanese ships.
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You might be on to something there. I mean what the hell, it worked for some rivers, can't be that hard to do the same for an ocean.
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simplefish posted:I think that's why we're seeing the 100 ship thing this month Since it's our beloved Croctopus, shouldn't we be counting losses on both sides? 
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My net is dead and until i get a new router there wil be no updates. It should have been here today. But BT is BT.
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Grey Hunter posted:My net is dead and until i get a new router there wil be no updates. IJN is getting pretty obvious with their news suppression. How many carriers have you lost?
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May 14, 2018 18:09
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None. All their crews are fine and sipoing drinks in Hawaii.
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Grey Hunter posted:None. All their crews are fine and sipoing drinks in Celebration party indeed.
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Grey Hunter posted:None. All their crews are fine and sipoing drinks in Hawaii. Maybe they're trying to convince Kam Fong to portray them in a movie about your great victories.
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Reuben Sandwich posted:I'd expect nothing less than our glorious crews discovering a teenaged Don Ho's true talents in this timeline. I wonder how much different Kurosawa flicks would be in this timeline. IIRC his early work was heavily influenced by the aftermath of the war.
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habeasdorkus posted:I wonder how much different Kurosawa flicks would be in this timeline. IIRC his early work was heavily influenced by the aftermath of the war.
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Triggerhappypilot posted:"It's called 'fleet-in-being,'" said the captain of the Myoko, looking up from his sake-on-the-rocks; "it means we don't have to do anything right now."
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habeasdorkus posted:I wonder how much different Kurosawa flicks would be in this timeline. IIRC his early work was heavily influenced by the aftermath of the war. If Grey ends the game before the atomic bombings, we won't get any Godzilla movies 
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HannibalBarca posted:If Grey ends the game before the atomic bombings, we won't get any Godzilla movies Yes we will, they'll just be called something different and feature an amalgamation of oil and marine corpses invading L.A.
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Log082 posted:Yes we will, they'll just be called something different and feature an amalgamation of oil and marine corpses invading L.A. The zombie movie craze stars early, only instead of being a metaphor for mindless consumerism, zombies are the poor souls who were senselessly lead to slaughter.
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I wonder person for person how high US casualties have been. To say nothing of what happened in Europe by this point.
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If the Army is as incompetent as the Navy and Marines to this point in the war the Russians are going to be in Berlin AND Paris before the Brits and Americans. Heck, the Nazi's probably still hold Northern Africa.
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   You poor buggers. Even my hungover crew can deal with this.  I wonder if we can break fifty ships this month?  Another destroyer is seen off in Rabaul harbour.  This is a nice hit.  Another thunderstorm hits Rabaul.  The carriers continue to murder.  These guys slip past the CAP, get their bombs in, THEN get cut to pieces.  I think the Allies were trying another of their base force invasions.  Bad weather is playing havoc with my strikes today.  We can still kill though.  How dare you even think about attacking my most important base?  Trust the Spitfires to ruin a good monologue.  I get it, your planes are better than my planes. That seems to be your only advantage at this moment.   Another amazing day. They are losing so many ships! Today takes us below 4,000 points to autowin next January.  I can't help but wonder if those carriers were supposed to have been supporting this invasion. 48/100
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  Another force sails into Rabaul to be met by our ships.  One of our subs takes a lot of hits.  Brown pants time.  My god, the AI has done something competent and put land based air on Manus!  We bring down two liberators.  I need to do something about this, and fast!   The Superforts perform a BS strike on Saigon.  Followed by a second! The random number generator has come out against me hard today!  We do take one of the bastards out though!  That was a terrible day! I think I've lost more ships today than in the previous three months combined! I'm getting every bomber I have in the region to target Manus, as they allies have finally got a ship through! I cannot allow them to interdict Rabaul – that's what a competent person would do!  Checking my notes, I've actually lost 22 ships so far this month – but it feels like a lot to take in one day – the allies have lost 49 though!
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  How do they even get people to board these transports?  This goes so well for them. The men ashore are part of the 77th division, and they surrender in the end phase.  The dive bombers get in on the action.  The first air-strike goes poorly.  We lose more fighters.  Grumble.  They have so many fighters now.   I think this was the wrong task force to attack....   The last of the forces for Operation Charnel house arrive – crossing a river and starting a shock attack while on move orders – I thought I had another day before the arrived – the roads must be really good here! Now this is not all bad – I now know their AV, which is pitiful seeing as this represents 750,000 men, and this is a part of my force attacking. And I was also going to launch a spoiler attack anyway – in the past they have counter attacked to greater loss than my attack, so let see if they follow that pattern tomorrow.  So I've decided I need to invade Munda. I'm loading a division from Rabaul to go do the job.  54/100, we're over half way there!
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Grey Hunter posted:So I've decided I need to invade Munda. I'm loading a division from Rabaul to go do the job. Please please please PLEASE have some ships bombard the island.
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