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SerthVarnee posted:Okay so that part with the barrage balloons at level 6+ really really handy to know when trying to guestimate potential invasion sites. To be fair, the IRL Allies had huge recon challenges with figuring how out fortified some of the late war islands like Iwo Jima and Okinawa were. The Japanese fortifications were largely out of sight and built out of caves or otherwise dug into the rock, so the recon couldn't really tell much about what was fortified where.
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Bold Robot posted:Agreed. It’s kind of nuts that you can get detailed reports about troop levels, ships, what types of planes—albeit all filtered through fog of war—but nothing at all on fort level. I get the impression that this game is designed for people who already have that kind of thing memorized, or at least find it really fulfilling to pour through reference books of old airplanes.
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14 June 1944 The IJN destroyer Shiratsuyu sinks near Surigao Strait after colliding with the oiler Seiyo Maru. Two German minesweepers, M-83 and M-343, are sunk in a running battle near the Channel Islands by HMS Ashanti and the Polish destroyer Piorun. Three American PT boats slip into La Spezia to sink two German (ex-Italian) torpedo boats: TA-26 (ex-Intrepido) and TA-30 (ex-Dragone).
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ponzicar posted:I get the impression that this game is designed for people who already have that kind of thing memorized, or at least find it really fulfilling to pour through reference books of old airplanes. The intended audience definitely scoffs at the idea that someone would be unfamiliar with the tactical role of the Wirraway. (gently caress wirraways)
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Bold Robot posted:The intended audience definitely scoffs at the idea that someone would be unfamiliar with the tactical role of the Wirraway. (gently caress wirraways) In the game where I spent a shitload of political points and held Rabaul, a squadron of Wirraways did yeoman work in sinking transports and disrupting landed troops. it was tolerably warm work, and their contribution from the air was sorely needed.
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Danann posted:I would not be surprised if Grey had to manually resupply his submarines so they would do something. No you just need to make sure there's a tender in the harbor that can load the right size torpedos for that particular sub.
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   As these guys refuse to bomb Chunking, I've dispatched troops to repair an airfield closer to the city. Then I'll rebase all my units there.   We lose a fighter over Burma.   We take some flak losses, but what are those New Zealanders doing south of Rabaul?  Both sides go all out here.  This is a very strange commando raid.   Even on a dull day we lose 30+ aircraft.
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Grey Hunter posted:This is a very strange commando raid. AI got a bit smarter and is trying to take nearby base for setting up the airfield with task of destroying Rabaul?
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Grey Hunter posted:
I wouldn't gently caress with Fijian commandos either. 
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15 June 1944 RAF bombers mount a heavy raid on German naval forces in Le Havre to eliminate their threat to the amphibious forces. Three torpedo boats, Möwe, Falke, and Jaguar (these are the oceangoing, small-destroyer type), are sunk outright and two damaged. Other casualties include 11 E-boats (MTBs), 30 patrol craft of various sorts, and 19 tugs. Another raid on Boulogne sank three minesweepers, M-402, M-507, and M-550, along with seven R-boats (small ships used largely for minesweeping) and 11 auxiliaries. Elsewhere, RAF Coastal Command Beaufighters sink the German minesweeper M-103 along with several support vessels off the Ems estuary. The Royal Navy loses two frigates to homing torpedoes in the Channel: Mourne, near the Lizard, to U-767 and Blackwood, near Portland Bill, to U-764.
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  We pick off a couple more patrol boats.  We then blast the base, trying to get those spitfires. See, I can take advice.  Another force deals with some transports.  We keep even losses vs a thunderstorm!  It can't last for long though!  We're taking some losses today.  I need fresh troops at Manus – they are rebuilding the forts quickly as it's all engineering troops here. The combat system is really stupid!   Wake gets another sweeping by their guns. Tokyo Rose says “and soon thousands of your friends bodies will be floating in the surf.” For once, she is correct!  Another standard day of air losses. I'm shipping more men down to Manus.  Not a bad day for ship kills though!
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Ron Jeremy posted:I wouldn't gently caress with Fijian commandos either. 
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Grey Hunter posted:
Very very frightening.
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  After remembering there are icons telling you where the enemy has planes, I bombard the enemies fighter base!  Hundreds of enemy bombers still pound Munda every day. There is nothing left there for them to destroy.  The Thunderbolts are still airborne. They have longer ranges and will be in a better defended base.  While not the most interesting of days, I'm now going to line up a string of ships and planes to level Buna. 
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that photoshop is sweet, and it looks like the real-life fijian commandos were pretty cool too that's from this blog post, which seems like it's implying a sequel post with more info but idk where in the blog archive that might be. apparently they wore US camo and NZ boots 
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Mikl posted:Very very frightening. Mama-mia!
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17 June 1944 German minesweeper M-546 sunk in the Channel off Boulogne by possibly-Canadian aircraft.
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OpenlyEvilJello posted:17 June 1944 Possibly-Canadian? What, they just asked Hans who bombed his ship, and he just shrugged his shoulders and said "Eh?"
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What's up with the late-game Japanese ASW in this game? It's 1/44 in my game now, the last couple of months the Japanese have really been doing a lot of damage to my subs. Is this historical?
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CannonFodder posted:Possibly-Canadian? My book doesn't go into any detail, just lists "possibly No 415 Squadron RCAF" as the killer.
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Bold Robot posted:What's up with the late-game Japanese ASW in this game? It's 1/44 in my game now, the last couple of months the Japanese have really been doing a lot of damage to my subs. Is this historical? I've read in various places on the Matrix forums that the game places undue emphasis on RoF for ASW combat, and even through Japanese ASW was never great the in-game devices have a high RoF which makes them disproportionately effective. Or something like that.
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Bold Robot posted:What's up with the late-game Japanese ASW in this game? It's 1/44 in my game now, the last couple of months the Japanese have really been doing a lot of damage to my subs. Is this historical? the game is structured in such a way that taking lots of individual shots ends up increasing your accuracy, and one of the ASW Escort ships has their depth charge racks modeled with lots of individual depth charge racks, which means they end up being ahistorically accurate against subs this is the same issue that affects level bombers being able to hit ships from high altitude much more reliably than they might have been expected to IRL
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  Yet another landing begins at Wake.  Another landing ship is ruined.  It's a shame these things are not loaded.  The I-171 is having another very good day!  The first wave of bombers is turned back.  The Lillys are hit hard, and I think I need to bombard a few more times before I try this again.  The third wave gets some hits in.  We bomb some lost transports.  Hmm, I wonder where all my Oscars have gone?  The afternoon strike sinks a good number of ships.  I'd forgotten I even had subs out here, so effective have they been.  A heavy day for air losses, let's bombard Buna few more times before we try again.  We confirm sinking the Yorktown II, bring on number 3!
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How many ships have you sunk this month Grey? Feels like you're closer to 100 this month just from blowing random transports and LCs.
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Kibayasu posted:If their landing craft were full you’d probably have a lot fewer islands by now. I dunno about that. Maybe at first, but eventually I imagine people who were made to board those death traps at gunpoint would have just started jumping overboard as soon as they got to open water. Come to think of it, that may very well be what's been happening all this time.
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  The Buna bombardment force gets distracted.  Then they range in on target.  There is a carrier of Truk. A small one, but it's there!  That's a few less fighters in the air.  Instead of bombing the carrier, most of the planes carry out their secondary mission of bombing the island – the air sweep catches them surprise and does horrendous damage.  They then hit the port – I take it back, this is at least two fleet carriers.  The Allies have their own bombardment.  This was definitely the Allies day! They ruled the air like nobodies business.  The seas are still mine however.  Hmmmmm......
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   Bugger off! I'm used to this being a safe area!  We sink a troop transport.  It looks like the Allies are packing them tight!  I'm keeping up trying to bomb Buna.  I'm disappointed, since I brought my Tojo's online, the Allies have stopped flying bombers over Rabaul. It's almost like they knew somehow..... 
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Oh man. Beginning of the end here? 3 cvs
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I was wondering why when you saw 81 godddamn Hellcats you were like 'Oh must be a single carrier'.
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That bombardment of Buna was amazing. Do the allies have any type of bomber force at Buna to try and take out your surface combatants? Also, somehow I expect the US to lose every single one of its CVs in that force because they focus on bombing Truk's fortifications instead of fending off incoming fighters.
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