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wiegieman posted:It's like you have to sacrifice a chicken every time you want a concerted airstrike. How hard - and I mean genuinely hard - would it be for the game to let you just click on a target and drop a pin on the map that said "if you're in range, fly here and kill everything you see"? You can do a pretty decent job of this by obeying the carrier stacking limits, putting good officers in charge, and planning your strikes appropriately. I think the idea was that is was actually hard to deliver a concerted strike from carriers - the primitive radio, navigation tech, and target identification of the time caused raid groups get separated all the time, e.g. Midway. It is kind of weird that you can't directly say "This fighter group should at least try to escort this bomber group," but you can usually make it work in practice by setting your missions up right (mainly correct altitude and range settings).
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wiegieman posted:It's like you have to sacrifice a chicken every time you want a concerted airstrike. How hard - and I mean genuinely hard - would it be for the game to let you just click on a target and drop a pin on the map that said "if you're in range, fly here and kill everything you see"? Litterally the next turn I run and my betties start working again. the game is trolling me. Grey Hunter fucked around with this message at 04:25 on Sep 8, 2018 |
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Grey partway into that video is a clip from combat mission, messed it all up. Might want to fix that.
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Sep 7, 2018 05:30
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I have no idea how that happened. I'm a moron.
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Sep 7, 2018 06:56
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Yeah, but you're OUR beloved moron.
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Sep 7, 2018 07:29
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LostCosmonaut posted:gains.jpg More weight, more reppus
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   The silent service strikes.   These guys have guts, shame they are full of bullets now.  We take our revenge.  Then they destroy on of my supply convoys.   Urk, not so good a day today!  These numbers are supposed to be other way around!
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Sep 8, 2018 03:44
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 This time with no combat mission!
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   We see a nice bombing run today.  This is mildly disappointing.  This however, is more like it!  The carriers have swung south to target Truk – this may give me chance to get more planes onto Guam!  I get a shock when the allies actually attack here rather than months of constant bombardment.  They then send some Fijian commandos in to take an uninhabited island.  Some surprisingly aggressive moves from the Allies there, maybe they will be about to give me a challenge!
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Grey Hunter posted:
The scenario suddenly changes at 12m13s in the video, just a hard cut to deployment for another scenario. Was the interim video lost in the previous splicing error? e. I guess it's just the very end of the first scenario lost, not a huge deal. Leperflesh fucked around with this message at 18:51 on Sep 8, 2018 |
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Leperflesh posted:The scenario suddenly changes at 12m13s in the video, just a hard cut to deployment for another scenario. Was the interim video lost in the previous splicing error? yeah. it's better than the previous issue. SUUUCKKY CROCTOPUS
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Grey Hunter posted:yeah. it's better than the previous issue. Alright, no worries then. It's an interesting game, how you sort of only capture parts of maps and then have to re-fight on those maps later, with reinforcements, but sometimes with spots of map behind your own lines that aren't held and can have enemies set up in firing positions in them. Makes things really murderous during the first ten seconds after you unpause.
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I'd totally forgotten we'd had troops on Noumea. When was the last time we heard from them?
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1943?
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Grey Hunter posted:1943? Good to see they haven't starved to death yet.
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dublish posted:I'd totally forgotten we'd had troops on Noumea. When was the last time we heard from them? Noumea knows?
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wedgekree posted:Noumea knows? ...  Honestly I'm just annoyed I didn't think of that first.
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  I shoot up Manus, but apparently do no damage.  We protect our ships on the way home.  In rare news, I have to report my men retreating.  Hmm, they seem to be on the offensive somewhat. I have also decided to cancel Charnel House, I don't think throwing away thousand of troops is going to work – so Operation Silk Road is now a go, the invasion of India from China!  I'm going to march two hudred thousand men six hundred miles across the mountains and invade India! They'll never see it coming! 
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Well, that's a slightly different way of killing them all I suppose.
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The front line units are cracking fast now!
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How exactly are you going to supply 200,000 men across the Daxue Mountains? E: I guess 150,000 of them are going to die from exposure trying to walk across the Daxue Mountains so that does rather neatly solve most of the issue
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Supplying troops, how quaint. Whoever shows up in India will have the strength of ten men!
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Sep 9, 2018 22:01
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First image on the wiki page for "Daxue Range" 
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It'll be fine, it's not like he's started marching them right at the end of summer or anything...
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I hope our elephants survive.
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Grey was jealous of the Long March and wanted his own.
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I really dont understand why you just dont take china despite the losses.
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Are you gonna be able to keep the Chinese from breaking out of Chungking?
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Surely it's better to match the men down the road to Myitkyina before going cross-country to Ledo. Or better yet, down the Burmese coast.
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A straight line is always the shortest distance between two points, come on this is basic geometry
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dtkozl posted:I really dont understand why you just dont take china despite the losses. Points. If I lose 5k points taking a 2.5k objective, I've not gained anything.
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Grey Hunter posted:Points. Fixed a small error
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Sep 10, 2018 04:11
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This is the worst move in a strategy game LP since Ofaloaf converted the Goths from Arianism.
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Sod it. Lets have a vote on it!
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Randomly invading India through the mountains as the winter comes seems far, far mor elike an IJA thing to do!
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I vote Option C: Invade Pearl Harbor. Clearly the most sane of what you've offered
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Would they even ever reach India? How long does it take a unit to move through a mountain hex?
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Seriously though Grey go through Burma
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uphold Xiist thought!
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It's almost '45, the russians are plotting to invade Disrupt them with a Manchurian offensive
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