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Leperflesh posted:Oh. I'm sure literally everyone looked at the guy you had selected in green. Yup.
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sniper4625 posted:Are you telling me the developers weren't tipping their hats to the preeminent manufacturer of licensed action figures of the 1970s and 80s? No I just mean I read the highlighted guy, didn't get the significance, and didn't look at the other names. It's funny that the devs included Quinton McHale, which I still would not have understood because I didn't know that reference, but Triggerhappy could have highlighted the guy he wanted us to look at maybe?
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As with all ills, I attribute this to an interface bug. This game was not really meant for 4k Monitors.
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Triggerhappypilot posted:I was just running through my PT boat commanders trying to replace the low performers and found this. Apparently the devs aren't totally devoid of humor.
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Triggerhappypilot posted:Quinton McHale is the (fictional) character Ernest Borgnine plays on the 60s TV sitcom McHale's Navy. I don't know what anything you said was. Then again, I'm a millenial, grandpa. But the important thing is: do his stats line up?
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18 July 1944 RAF Coastal Command aircraft take down the German minesweeper M-264 near the Weser estuary.
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Reuben Sandwich posted:Please tell me Captain Phillip Queeg is commanding some minesweeper with a 10 aggression. I want to know about Jonas Grumby!
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   Dammit!  The Allies sail a bloody battleship into Rabaul!  Destroyer losses continue to mount!  We see a dogfight over the returning ships.  Trapped and outnumbered two to one, the American somehow hold out.   Chungking must be destroyed!  There are three quarters of a million men trapped in a city that has been bombarded for months and firebombed for a couple of weeks, and I can't crack them. They should have starved to death by now! I don't think this one can be won, shall I march most of my army off to invade India?   My carriers are off causing trouble.  These are planes from Truk killing ships heading to Truk, near Eniwetok.  Dammit! Its a tank battalion. They roll over my troops as they try an organise themselves.   The Navy must be laughing at the Army after today! It seems we can't make any advances anywhere! I can't take days like that – the losses along added nearly a thousand points to my to win score! Those troops would be better spent seeing how far I can roll up into India – once I see if the AI makes a suicidal attack or not tomorrow!  That said, we reach 100 sinkings this month! So it's all now bad news!
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That's total bullshit. Invade the USSR.
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Top Hats Monthly posted:That's total bullshit.
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Jul 20, 2018 04:22
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Insufficient bushido spirit. Needs more Shock Attack.
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Uhhh... didn't we knock their forts down to 3 already? If they have enough supplies to push fort levels up a level, maintain the airport, and still not have a negative supply modifier after months of bombing... there mush be something wrong right? Like they still have a supply line or something? Maybe putting all those bombers on troop attack would be better now???
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Top Hats Monthly posted:That's total bullshit. While raiding Pearl Harbor
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Night10194 posted:Insufficient bushido spirit.
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I may be misremembering but that might be the best loss ratio so far at Chungking.
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Which is not saying much. Lol at this game, again
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Did you consider doing some troop bombing in Chungking? Otherwise, the losses don't seem so bad for attacking into level 4 forts, and the Chinese losses are very high. You should just keep on going, imo.
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If they're being attacked or bombarded they'll use up whatever supply they have left much quicker, right?
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Maybe they can be lured out of the hex?
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You just lost over 10% of your men at Chungking. Are those replaceable?
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Invade India and the Chinese Communists.
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How the gently caress do they have more raw AV than you at Chungking? This makes no sense to me.
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PittTheElder posted:How the gently caress do they have more raw AV than you at Chungking? This makes no sense to me. This game appears to be among the UI issues have problems wtih ground combat. Like, how at Truk the Allies are more.. Yeah.
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Ron Jeremy posted:You just lost over 10% of your men at Chungking. Are those replaceable? Yes, with enough rest.
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Triggerhappypilot posted:Quinton McHale is the (fictional) character Ernest Borgnine plays on the 60s TV sitcom McHale's Navy. I do believe you mean the (fictional) character Tom Arnold plays in the 90s action-comedy film McHale's Navy. (god what a poo poo movie)
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The way AV is calculated in this game is extremely dumb. Basically, every device that's capable of offense (an active infantry squad or AFV, for example) gives your LCU some AV. However, looking at the actual stats, you find that a USMC rifle squad in 1944 is about twice as powerful as an equivalent Japanese rifle squad and four times as powerful as a Chinese infantry squad. Tanks give a very low amount of AV but can break through almost anything in the game aside from stronger tanks or hardened positions. The Chinese infantry formations look really powerful on paper because they have crazy high AVs, but until they start getting good equipment in 1945 they have pitiful breakthrough potential (hard attack) and so they're terrible at assaulting fortified positions. You essentially have to divide Chinese AVs by 4 to see how powerful they are in comparison to a US unit. The terrain bonuses are also absurdly good in cities, so without combat engineers or tanks it's almost always a struggle to break through unless you outnumber them 4 to 1. The only people who get enough of those are the US and, if you spend a lot of political points, the Indian/British forces in SEA. Also the AI gets to cheat itself supply into existence, but that's really just a way so that you don't immediately curbstomp it.
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Abandoning the Chinese prize is a bad idea, imo.
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If those troops head off to the Indian front, won't the Chinese just bust out of Chungking and rampage around the North recapturing cities?
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I refuse to believe that there is no way to crack that fuckin city. More artillery and air strikes against the troops, idk.
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Luigi's Discount Porn Bin posted:If those troops head off to the Indian front, won't the Chinese just bust out of Chungking and rampage around the North recapturing cities? Correct
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Could you encircle an additional empty hex adjacent Chungking, then repeatedly stomp whatever soldiers they stick there? Even if it doesn't measurably weaken the city at least it could be cheap points.
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I plan on leaving enough troops to prevent attacks. I still have a few men in nemoua locking down the as from their aircraft, but to large for the Garrison to attack. I'm cockblocking the AI, and at this point I don't feel bad about it!
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You need to keep at it and take chungking
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Yea, that was alot better attempt than the first one - keep at it, and when you drop them to level 3 forts you should be fine.
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Plus this is the sort of mass assault trench warfare action I crave...please keep at it!
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Key thing is to crack forts, and to get them a disruption and a supply penalty. They have neither right now, which means the bombing isn't disrupting enough, and they haven't run through their supply backlog. I think you can't judge by day 1 of the attack. Maybe tomorrow they'd have a supply penalty, if the casualties from day 1 use up the remainder of their on-hand supplies. The lack of a disruption penalty is more concerning though, I think that implies the daily bombardment from the troops isn't having enough affect. It also might be worth spending some of that huge pile of political points to put some good leaders into your chunking attack circle? Getting a Leadership bonus could be important here. So I'd say in this order: -Spend political points as best you can -Get more engineers in place -Attack for several days in a row before deciding it's impossible to win this fight
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Jobbo_Fett posted:Abandoning the Chinese prize is a bad idea, imo. dtkozl posted:You need to keep at it and take chungking Thirded.
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I still think you should open the game as the Allies and figure out what the heck is going on "under the hood". It seems like the game has broken systemically since Jan 1944 at least.
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Swap sides now and try and end the war on schedule.
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Davin Valkri posted:I still think you should open the game as the Allies and figure out what the heck is going on "under the hood". It seems like the game has broken systemically since Jan 1944 at least. It’s really just that the AI is bad.
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