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We must find a way for Yamato to range on Chungking.
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TheDemon posted:Yes, excellent, the army will throw away tens of thousands more men on an ineffectual campaign while the navy racks up more glory with our battleships... tens of thousands of skilled civilian shipyard workers yes this happened in real life
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Jul 24, 2018 01:47
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   Even this close to Japan, there is little I can do about night time surface attacks. I don't have the escorts to protect these short hop runs.   When did these guys A) Get torpedoes, and B) Learn to use them? Also, I may have forgotten to order the task force to turn around....  Don't send bombers west after PT boats you muppets!   Grumble grumble.   Their tanks at Rota are murdering my men. I hear later they are now surrounded, and doomed.   Well, that was a piss poor day!  Phew! No battleships!  NOW they are heading for home – 95% of the time, wounded ships are split off and return to base – this was one of the times the game judged the damage to still be battle ready and I didn't notice.
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Jul 24, 2018 04:55
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Ow - that means your bombardment force can't rotate in and out as quickly, which mens that the Allies can start on their bombing runs once more.. Think you got the New Jersey or she made it back to port?
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Jul 24, 2018 05:08
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That 12kt speed of the Yamato is gonna be a problem.
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Jul 24, 2018 05:20
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 RIP Yamato, I don't see you making it out of this one.
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Jul 24, 2018 07:03
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NO GREY. NO.
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Jul 24, 2018 10:31
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Grey just can't let go of the Bushido spirit
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Grey Hunter posted:
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Jul 24, 2018 13:05
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What were they doing south of that airfield they usually bombard anyway?
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Jul 24, 2018 13:20
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alex314 posted:What were they doing south of that airfield they usually bombard anyway? Grey noticed that his Battleships were still floating and wanted to give the Allies a mulligan.
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Jul 24, 2018 14:03
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They were heading for Port Moresby again.
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Jul 24, 2018 14:16
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Yamato and Musashi are gonna be world-class museum ships. I mean, after they're rebuilt Iowa style in the 80s and decommissioned in the 90s.
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Jul 24, 2018 14:20
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I prefer using them as the basis for a space navy.
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Jul 24, 2018 14:23
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Alikchi posted:Yamato and Musashi are gonna be world-class museum ships. I mean, after they're refloated in the 80s and turned into museum ships in the 90s.
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Alikchi posted:Yamato and Musashi are gonna be world-class museum ships. I mean, after they're rebuilt Iowa style in the 80s and decommissioned in the 90s. Musashi got sunk already IIRC.
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Jul 24, 2018 16:58
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Magni posted:Musashi got sunk already IIRC. BB Musashi Japanese Yamato-class Battleship Sunk Surface Action Near Feni Island 44/04/10 N/A N/A 332 67123 Yes TehKeen
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Jul 24, 2018 17:14
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Or maybe Musashi got transported back to Tsushima 1905 Zipang-style. 
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Thank you, thank you, y'all are far to kind. I have to admit that this was rushed and somewhat half-assed, and definitely missing something. Fortunately I figured out what it was. 
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  The Cruisers have a bit of a fight with the New Jersy.  On the way to Buna we bring down another landing craft task force. [img]https://lpix.org/3179127/3].jpg[/img] The base then gets a good shelling.  The crew of the New Jersey must really feel the fact that we control the seas. We are hounding them every step of the way.  GOD drat IT!  At least we are doing better in the dog fighting.  If I'm losing a battleship, they are as sure as hell losing one.  Their carriers are in my supply lines to Rabaul – the worst place for them to be!  Oh, you can bugger off too!  These are not battleships!  And down she goes!   We keep on burning Chungking. This way I can at least claim a morale victory, even if the game won't allow me a real one.  Well, that was a bit of a mixed day – that one squadron with torpedoes are getting constant strikes in all of a sudden! Now I have to turn the Kido Butai north to try and clear those carriers from Truk – they did their job though!  So good.  Not so good, but still survivable!
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Jul 25, 2018 04:21
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82 float damage is uh not great
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Jul 25, 2018 04:28
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Neither is making all of four knots...
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Jul 25, 2018 04:37
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I'm loving the optimism that 200 miles to port at 4 knots with 80 floatation is survivable.
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Jul 25, 2018 04:37
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Please save the Yamato. Does the game take into account the possibility to save a sunken ship in port like the West Virginia and Arizona?
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Jul 25, 2018 04:42
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Maybe if it makes it to the nearest port you could send in the Akashi...if, uh, it's* still alive. * the Akashi and/or the Yamato
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Jul 25, 2018 04:51
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Even if it somehow gets to Rabaul, it's out of the war. It won't be done repairing before the war ends, especially since it would have to stabilize at Rabaul and then head back to Japan.
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Jul 25, 2018 04:55
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Bold Robot posted:Even if it somehow gets to Rabaul, it's out of the war. It won't be done repairing before the war ends, especially since it would have to stabilize at Rabaul and then head back to Japan. Presuming it is is that necessarly a bad thing? Glorious battle doctrine aside, the Yamato is a target magnet that uses a lot of fuel. Glorious battle doctrine not aside, at the Home Islands the Allies will pursue it to the depths of Tokyo Bay itself (TO THE DEPTHS)
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Jul 25, 2018 05:01
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Getting sunk is very bad because points. But sitting in a shipyard for the rest of the war is good because yeah saves on fuel and supplies that would be far better spent elsewhere plus it ensures that it won't ever get sunk and hurt our points.
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Yeah, Yamato getting sunk is.. Well, probably worth at least half a Chunking. We hope we can get it to Rabaul portside and then get it back to the Home Islands. Presuming you do guess you should put it to lowest priority to repair so it won't be taking up a berth space for something that might be able to get back into the fight. Also ow another carrier battle is going to be interesting - about how many planes can the KB put up and what sort of CV force do you think the Allies have raiding Truk? wedgekree fucked around with this message at 05:11 on Jul 25, 2018 |
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Jul 25, 2018 05:09
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I audibly gasped and let out an involuntary "No!" when I saw that the Yamato ate a torp
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Jul 25, 2018 05:17
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At least we sank an Iowa-class battleship in return 
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Jul 25, 2018 05:23
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IIRC the Allies were starting to run pretty drat low on battleships, weren't they? How many should they have left?
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Crazycryodude posted:IIRC the Allies were starting to run pretty drat low on battleships, weren't they? How many should they have left? Theoretically I'd think possibly 3 though that's probably including any RN ones, and all of them are PH refits unless I"m missing some.
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That's 80 flooding from what, 3 airdropped torps? WTF did they do when modelling the Yamatos. Because if there's one thing those two excelled at IRL, it was that it took a loving ludicrous amount of torpedo hits to actually sink them.
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Jul 25, 2018 06:15
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Magni posted:That's 80 flooding from what, 3 airdropped torps? WTF did they do when modelling the Yamatos. Because if there's one thing those two excelled at IRL, it was that it took a loving ludicrous amount of torpedo hits to actually sink them. The Yamato and the Musashi both did take a ton of torps, but it's arguable if any past the first six or so were really necessary. The Bismarck had its fate sealed from, like, two?
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Jul 25, 2018 06:34
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gradenko_2000 posted:The Yamato and the Musashi both did take a ton of torps, but it's arguable if any past the first six or so were really necessary. The Bismarck had its fate sealed from, like, two? Musashi took nineteen and still took hours longer to finally sink from that. She kept trucking on most of the day after the first six. Yamato took somewhere around a dozen, most of them specifically aimed at the same side of the ship to get her to capsize due to the USNs experience with Musashi eating enough torps to sink most other battleships two to three times over. The Yamatos' sheer size and displacement allowed the designers to give them a downright insane amount of positive buoyancy and compartmentalisation, and hence the ability to survive torpedo hits and flooding past anything else afloat at the time. Bismarck isn't really comparable - she wasn't sunk, or even anywhere near sinking, from the hits the Swordfish scored on her. They took out the main rudder and collapsed her central driveshaft. That crippled her and hence doomed her to be run down, but by itself would have been nowhere near enough to put her into danger of sinking. This was made possible by Bismarck's propulsion layout with its three-screw arrangement, and would be pretty drat hard to replicate on most other contemporary battleships.
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Bismarck was a pretty garbage boat and it should not be considered a particularly shining example of what you can do with an actually well-built battleship
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