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Crazycryodude posted:Seriously though Grey go through Burma This, I voted for attacking India as well but this is gonna take more than five months of waiting in addition to getting everyone killed when they get there. Attacking India will work with the number of men we have but losing everything this way feels like some weird parody version of the thread.
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So what's the "I have no idea how this game works but I want Grey to win" vote?
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Sep 10, 2018 06:53
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Chuu posted:So what's the "I have no idea how this game works but I want Grey to win" vote? Win? I'm just losing with style. Also, which of you buggers are keeping the votes tied on purpose!
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Sep 10, 2018 08:39
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Just put two toys before Grey Jr. and if he takes left one then Charnel House, right will be Silk Road. Kidocracy 
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Sep 10, 2018 09:43
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I mean, isn't there a third option?
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Sep 10, 2018 11:11
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I'm pretty sure that range is impassable. Turn on all the hexside details and a fat red line turns up in the mountains.
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Sep 10, 2018 12:21
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If after all this buildup you just blueball us I will be FURIOUS, Grey. FURIOUS. I want my Greypocalypse
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Sep 10, 2018 12:24
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simplefish posted:I mean, isn't there a third option? Pearl/San Fran should be options if
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Sep 10, 2018 12:43
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Caconym posted:I'm pretty sure that range is impassable. Turn on all the hexside details and a fat red line turns up in the mountains. This seems, uh, relevant.
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Sep 10, 2018 13:01
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I would say give Charnel House a final big push and if that fails maybe call the game? If we can’t take Chungking then it seems very unlikely that either side will be able to secure enough points to win before the end date.
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Sep 10, 2018 15:33
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Let's think out of the box, like Big Offensive on Little Aden, sheep raiding in NZ, or Alaska: Juneau You Want To.
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Sep 10, 2018 15:45
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No early finish, please. I want to see Autumn Storm.
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Sep 10, 2018 17:47
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I'm ok with a cordon sanitaire around Chungking and moving on to India. But if you're going to do it, do it without marching the IJA over that mountain range. I just think we're not gonna hear about that army for -forever-....kinda boring.
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Sep 10, 2018 17:50
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Is there a youtube somewhere of what a nuke looks like in this game?
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Sep 10, 2018 20:45
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aphid_licker posted:Is there a youtube somewhere of what a nuke looks like in this game? There was a screenshot in Grey's allied LP, it's basically same as any other combat result except it says ATOM BOMB HITS: 1 or something similar. Really underwhelming. e: found it: 
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Sep 10, 2018 21:17
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If the Allies managed to run a supply line over the himalayas, I'm sure Japan can as well, with indomitable bushido spirit.
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Sep 10, 2018 23:05
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maybe they could hitch rides in the 600 night-only betties
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Sep 11, 2018 00:42
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Gervasius posted:There was a screenshot in Grey's allied LP, it's basically same as any other combat result except it says ATOM BOMB HITS: 1 or something similar. Really underwhelming. Well, at least it's in all caps. Edit: sullat posted:If the Allies managed to run a supply line over the himalayas, I'm sure Japan can as well, with indomitable bushido spirit. Most bombers in the game can actually be used as supply transports on a temporary basis, but they're lousy at it. What Grey could do, if he has the "resizing allowed" settings on, is make maximum size IJA air wings with those 800 Helens that are in reserve and use them to deliver supplies. Unfortunately they're pretty lousy- they can deliver less than a ton of supplies per flight, so the maximum you'd get in a hex per turn assuming maximum efficency is around (.90 * number of planes flying), which in practice would work out to a couple of hundred tons of supplies per turn at most. That's probably enough to sustain at most a single division that's in active combat. Triggerhappypilot fucked around with this message at 01:28 on Sep 11, 2018 |
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Sep 11, 2018 01:18
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   What kind of travesty is this?  Better. Much better.   I'm upset, but also surprised I still have subs in 1944.   I don't see a point in stopping the bombing!   The Allies seem to be getting their war on at the moment!  We take some losses today. I have been keeping a surprise from you.  These girls are now ready, and the rest of the Kido Butai will be active in a week (barring one CVL on late upgrade) – so we will have a good sized carrier force once more!
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Sep 11, 2018 04:01
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Woo! Two new carriers, full air wings, and hopefully moderately trained pilots! And the thing with PT Boats is they have torpedoes and they can occasionally get at least one torp off and if it hits they can get a ship kill. They're small and fast and basically a mini-corvette.
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Sep 11, 2018 04:13
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100% on board for a late-1944 IJA invasion of India but dear god please take the actual road through the himalayas
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Sep 11, 2018 04:14
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Wait, people think my 2 second map was the actual route? the AI will sort that out, it can at least find the quickest route! Charnel house is winning though...
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wedgekree posted:And the thing with PT Boats is they have torpedoes and they can occasionally get at least one torp off and if it hits they can get a ship kill. They're small and fast and basically a mini-corvette. In my game a group of PT boats crippled Shokaku in April of 42, enabling a carrier to hunt her down and kill her a few days later. Admittedly this was because of an extremely stupid play by the AI but either way it shows that PT boats can punch way above their weight.
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Bold Robot posted:In my game a group of PT boats crippled Shokaku in April of 42, enabling a carrier to hunt her down and kill her a few days later. Admittedly this was because of an extremely stupid play by the AI but either way it shows that PT boats can punch way above their weight. Their torpedos were very effective, they were small and fast so were hard to hit for escorts. Even Destroyers could only really fire secondaries at them. If they could get within a few hundred meters and do torpedo runs and get hits they could cripple much, much bigger ships. And even if most of them were blown up? They were jsut PT Boats - they could be built in a few weeks and had a crew of /maybe/ a dozen. So no huge loss. Even if 10-15 of them were lost for a single hit, it was an even trade.
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Sep 11, 2018 05:51
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The Katsuragi! My lucky ship never had the chance to show up in the first attempt of this thread or in steinrokkan's thread, hopefully she'll be able to do more than her historical performance of getting bombed in port by the Allies.
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Bold Robot posted:In my game a group of PT boats crippled Shokaku in April of 42, enabling a carrier to hunt her down and kill her a few days later. Admittedly this was because of an extremely stupid play by the AI but either way it shows that PT boats can punch way above their weight. that's working as intended - torpedoes, and small boats intended to carry only them, upended the naval game with their introduction because suddenly it was possible to sink large capital ships on the cheap. The "destroyer" is a contraction of the longer "torpedo boat destroyer", as in a ship that has just enough of a gun to sink torpedo boats, but is small and therefore fast enough to catch the things and screen the capital ships
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Sep 11, 2018 08:19
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Youtube confuses me. What is my most watched video of the year? One of my newer RPG's? The eternally popular Rogue Trader game? Nope, its the little map video I did at the end of WITE..... Now I have a terrible urge to "give people what they want" and do a video LP of WITE, as my sat game has ended and I have 3 hours a week. all I'd have to do is move Close Combat videos to days where I'm not doing Combat mission.... Nah, leave it till after Combat mission has ended. But still, wtf youtubers, why is this so popular?
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Sep 11, 2018 09:56
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it's a pretty watchable version overview of the game itself and the Eastern Front in general. Remember that your competition is people who take screenshots in Paint and then post them on Matrix forums while also being unable to stitch them together into a large image and also they just post raw combat reports. You actually know how to tell a narrative!
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Grey Hunter posted:Youtube confuses me. What is my most watched video of the year? One of my newer RPG's? The eternally popular Rogue Trader game? I don't have an explanation, but I 100% support the idea of a new WITE LP from the croctopus. Would be very nice to see you on the Red side that time
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Sep 11, 2018 10:44
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Yeah, my thoughts are once Combat mission wraps, I should have enough practice at WITW to kick that off, then I can use my sat nights to record a WITE series. Video would be different to the core image ones I do, but has less time per turn - realtime with no pausing to type things out. WITW would def get a proper screenshot LP though! the WITE would mainly be me messing around as the Soviets!
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Grey Hunter posted:Youtube confuses me. What is my most watched video of the year? One of my newer RPG's? The eternally popular Rogue Trader game? Pretty sure the video was posted in this thread from someone who is not you. So you had to click on the link to find out what it was.
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Grey Hunter posted:Youtube confuses me. What is my most watched video of the year? One of my newer RPG's? The eternally popular Rogue Trader game? Just watched it, it's nice to see an easy graphical summary of how the whole campaign went.
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Sep 11, 2018 15:51
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Yes, it's like a lava lamp.
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Sep 11, 2018 16:17
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  Wake gets bombarded.  Your liberators are not wanted.  Everyone here is fine with the Greater Asian Prosperity League, Thanks!   Here we swat some mosquitoes.  I'm mostly moving supplies and waiting for my carriers at this point.
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Sep 11, 2018 18:17
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Did they perform a shore bombardment with a light carrier? Man, it's a shame there were no shore batteries effectively returning fire. How hilarious would it be if you sank a carrier with shore batteries?
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Sep 11, 2018 18:23
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McNally posted:Did they perform a shore bombardment with a light carrier? CL is light cruiser. CVL is light carrier.
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Sep 11, 2018 18:24
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Bold Robot posted:CL is light cruiser. CVL is light carrier. Wow I'm an idiot. I knew that. Brain fart.
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Sep 11, 2018 18:27
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Flying into Rabaul with five of your best Liberator buddies and seeing that cloud of Tojos rise to meet you has got to be a pretty special moment
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If you’re gonna do a video let’s play try http://www.victoryatseagame.com Unless you’re burned on out on the pacific.
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