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goatface posted:They sold some to China in the late 30s. Aren't those coming from a British airbase?
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Woodchip posted:The Great Solomon’s Turkey Shoot going as planned.
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Holy gently caress find yourselves some ex-RN blokes in their 80s He brought his mate over who was basically the chief chippy for an admiral on the old HMS Sheffield (apparently differentiated by calling it "Shiny Sheffield") - did you know admirals' quarters had faux hearths and fireplaces, separate lounges, and comfy furnishings throughout? Seriously find yourselves some veterans and listen to them
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simplefish posted:Seriously find yourselves some veterans and listen to them One of my favorite things that has happened in my life (and this is counting both the former model and the ballet dancer) is when a buddy and I toured the USS Hornet in Alameda. We did the deck nd the hangar bay, then we cut a docent out of the herd and got him to do a tour for just the two of us. That was three hours of "so then this happened, right over there" and it was awesome. FYI, the brig on the Hornet is loving cramped. That's definitely a punishment.
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WITW LP planning phase 1. RTFM. Only 311 pages long.....
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We should start taking bets on when he wins the war. If you are an absolute beginner you win 2 weeks historically late. You used to be able to glitch the game and get to Berlin in 1944 but I dont think that is going to happen (it might!).
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   We sweep the enemy from Manus again.  The need to learn it's MY island!  Oh look, I still have subs!   Keep the pressure up!   We get planes up today!   Aww, they kept their fighters at home today!  So I took my pound of flesh from their navy instead.
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Posting pre-written blurbs from my Google Drive at my friend's awesome Indian wedding. Hope y'all are having as much fun as I am! 25 August 1944 USS Picuda sinks the destroyer Yunagi in the Philippines. RAF Beaufighters sink the German minesweeper M-347 off the northern Dutch coast. A long list of German warships are scuttled to avoid capture by advancing Allied forces in France, marking the end of Kriegsmarine surface forces in the Channel and Atlantic coast. At Toulon: torpedo boat TA-13 (ex-French La Bayonnaise). At Bordeaux: destroyer Z-37 and minesweepers M-262, M-304, M-344, M-363, and M-463.
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At this point is it possible to thin the Allied escorts if you keep up mauling thier DE's and DD's to hopefully make raiding a bit easier or are they pumping them out more htan they are CVE's?
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wedgekree posted:At this point is it possible to thin the Allied escorts if you keep up mauling thier DE's and DD's to hopefully make raiding a bit easier or are they pumping them out more htan they are CVE's? The Allies get hundreds of ships like that.
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Have wrestled control of the tv off the croctopod for long enough to put tora tora tora on. It has boats and planes, so he is happy for now. We are also playing blocks.
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Bold Robot posted:The Allies get hundreds of ships like that. Can we convince the Allies they have to start delivering their escort ships in oil tankers and send them into our harbors to deploy? That might help.
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Aug 26, 2018 06:59
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Bold Robot posted:The Allies get hundreds of ships like that. I mean to be fair we're also sinking them by the hundreds. We've put a drat solid dent in Allied shipping, and even if they still have functionally infinity of a lot of things their local presence in a specific region can get hosed up good if nothing else.
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Aug 26, 2018 07:23
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Where are the CVEs anyway? Shouldn't we be drowning in them already?
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Ron Jeremy posted:Where are the CVEs anyway? Shouldn't we be drowning in them already? With all the CV's that are also missing, I estimate that about 90% of the USN's flattops are all tied up edge to edge in Pearl having a massive boat party.
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Aug 26, 2018 07:29
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Ron Jeremy posted:Where are the CVEs anyway? Shouldn't we be drowning in them already? After learning the folly of amphibious landings, they're being employed in an audacious plan to line up bow to stern and drive tanks from Hawaii to the Japanese mainland
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Crazycryodude posted:With all the CV's that are also missing, I estimate that about 90% of the USN's flattops are all tied up edge to edge in Pearl having a massive boat party. Yeah theoretically shouldn've the USN and RN have like 15 or so CV's, 10-15 CVL's, and at least 70-80 CVE's by this point? I mean 1944 is when they were building an Essex class carrier and deploying it every six weeks..
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They might be using them as actual escorts between pearl and sanfran. Or sitting them at islands 300 miles behind the front for air cover.
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OpenlyEvilJello posted:Posting pre-written blurbs from my Google Drive at my friend's awesome Indian wedding. Hope y'all are having as much fun as I am! Thanks for doing this btw, it's really cool to see how this played out irl day by day
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  They keep trying to dock at Manus.  I'm keeping up the pressure.  To the east I hunt down a troop laden convoy.  They send planes after the cruisers.  So down come the planes!  Why is there a tanker there?  Their carrier are still circling.  Keep on bombing.  That was a nicely one-sided day! I've ordered half my forces out of Chungking, to see if we can get them to attack us.  Killing troop convoys is always good fun!
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Aug 26, 2018 18:46
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A troop convoy with lots of tanks, that's a juicy hamburger right there.
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Welp, I have screen envy now
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Fun Fact: The USS Tasker H. Bliss was also sunk IRL when she took a brace of torpedoes from U-130 while supporting Operation Torch in Italy.
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I'm not sure what is weirder - the AI's propensity to send an unescorted tanker to a Japanese held island, or the fact the Japanese are holding thier own in the air war come the late summer of 1944 and are inflicting even losses and taking down US Strategic Bombers.
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  They take heavy losses, but it's amazing this force even saw the enemy carrier!  They strike at Guam, but we see those ships did not die in vain!  We take out another strike force!  Then another!  Planes are just dropping from the sky!  That was another brutal day that was much closer than the combat reports suggested. 
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Grey Hunter posted:Have wrestled control of the tv off the croctopod for long enough to put tora tora tora on. It has boats and planes, so he is happy for now. The Battle of Midway should be next!
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They need to replace the Jugs with Spitfires. Strange to see Jugs escorting Beauforts?
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Sad King Billy posted:They need to replace the Jugs with Spitfires. What, so they can just run out of fuel and ditch before they even reach the bomber target? There's a reason Spitfires weren't generally used for escort missions, as they had terrible flight range. I'd guess the issue we're seeing is some combination of a difference in combat experience, plus being assigned to an escort mission possibly nerfing their stats in some relevant way.
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Also, fighting while outnumbered 3:1 probably doesn't help.
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Sad King Billy posted:The Battle of Midway should be next! The final countdown to illustrate how the AI cheats. Then show him Grave of the Fireflies to show him what war is really about.
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Ron Jeremy posted:Then show him Grave of the Fireflies to show him what war is really about. Giving the next generation a guilt trip while failing to acknowledge your own mistakes?  The Wind Rises is a more age appropriate movie in a similar vein.
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In This Corner of the World.
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aphid_licker posted:Thanks for doing this btw, it's really cool to see how this played out irl day by day  26 August 1944 Yet another German minesweeper bites the dust, this time M-266 at Kiel, sunk by the RAF. 27 August 1944 The RAF—rocket-firing Typhoons this time—tears up another trio of minesweepers north of Le Havre, but there's a twist: these minesweepers are British. They were spotted by RAF reconnaissance, which reported that they "appeared to be friendly," but the naval staff in charge of beachhead security had not been informed of the change in plans that had put them there and thus ordered the attack. HMS Britomart and Hussar were sunk outright and HMS Salamander damaged beyond repair with her stern blown off.
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Is.. Is it goin to be possible to upgrade the Tojo airframes on Rabaul any further? Because -dayumn- those pilots are earning hier pay
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wedgekree posted:Is.. Is it goin to be possible to upgrade the Tojo airframes on Rabaul any further? Because -dayumn- those pilots are earning hier pay He'd be better off shipping in more Franks tbh. Though it's weird that the Ki-84a is out there-- isn't that a prototype?
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