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So basically the Allies strike a bargain with the elder gods in every timeline - it's just that this time they did it in Chungking instead of Eniwetok.
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Of all the bodges in this game, I think I like Chungking the least. It wouldn't be so bad if the terrain there was a bit more forgiving, but as it is it's very much a "We've put this impossible roadblock in place so we don't have to come up with real mechanics to keep the Japanese army tied down in China" situation.
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David Corbett posted:And then there's Chungking, which is like a bizarro Stalingrad where the Sixth Army doesn't need to eat, generates weaponry, ammunition and other materiél from the aether, and has soldiers who enjoy the bad habit of coming back from the dead when "killed". Oh, and they've decided to hold on there until the end of days. Sounds like a modernized Valhalla. Endless supplies of the same food and drink and the dead warriors being brought back to life each morning to fight, get maimed and die again. And my crazy ancestors thought this sounded like a good thing. 
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   I ran some cruisers up towards Truk, and they run into a major US force! We come off ahead, just! Battleships can take a pounding!   We spread the pain today.   Well, that was an unexpected battle!  Some nice sinking reports there.  My own ships were lucky they were right next to a base!
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I think the carriers just found their target!
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Yeah, take the sinking report for the Miami with a grain of salt. A single torpedo hits and a few shells shouldn't be enough put down a Cleveland-class unless you're very lucky indeed. Though there is a likelihood for the old "the front fell off" to have happened there.  The Marblehead OTOH is an old Omaha-class scout cruiser, so two Long Lance hits should be a pretty much guaranteed death sentence.
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Sep 24, 2018 19:26
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The Cleveland class has 12 six inch, 12 five inch, and 12 40mm guns 
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Some of the US light cruisers are extremely legit. The Boise or whichever one you get in the Philippines at the start is  .
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Dance Officer posted:I think the carriers just found their target!
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frankenfreak posted:Reminder that this is the timeline where battleships are better. Specificaĺy US Battleships can put up a wall of flack that Grey can't penetrate any more.
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aphid_licker posted:The Cleveland class has 12 six inch, 12 five inch, and 12 40mm guns Only the 6" ones are for boats. We're well into late war "gently caress the sky"-armament territory. Hev fire, hev damage suggests something significant went boom. Might have hit the magazines.
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goatface posted:Only the 6" ones are for boats. We're well into late war "gently caress the sky"-armament territory. The 5" ones were perfectly capable of being used against ships as well. For all intents and purposes, that's just a very late-war destroyer turret mounted on the ship (2 per side, with an additional 2 above the fore/aft main guns), and acted as such in all regards. And yeah, the Cleveland-class as a whole is a pretty good representation of just how silly the light/heavy cruiser divide being based on gun caliber is, given it displaces far more than any supposed heavy cruiser fielded by the US before the Baltimore-class. Said heavy displacement being in part due to having more armor than those earlier ones as well (though oddball one-shot USS Wichita, direct predecessor the the Baltimore-class, has slightly more), as well as the additional turret of course.
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Jonny Nox posted:Specificaĺy US Battleships can put up a wall of flack that Grey can't penetrate any more. not with that attitude
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Jonny Nox posted:Specificaĺy US Battleships can put up a wall of flack that Grey can't penetrate any more. We have discovered the best time to attack is at night. Banzai!
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   The American subs continue to make their presence felt.  Nothing but normal bombardment and one plane blown up n Burma that I lost the screenshot for. I don't even have anything interesting to say – I'm pulling most to the troops out of Chungking to see if they will attack me there.  I do find these guys at Truk, I'm hoping they can clear the allied ships and let me get supplies in.
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24 September 1944 More small Japanese warships succumb to air attack in the Philippines: the escort (ex-minelayer) Yaeyama, the torpedo boat Hayabusa, and the seaplane tender Akitsushima. U-739 sinks the Soviet minesweeper T-120 with a homing torpedo in the Kara Sea. 25 September 1944 RAF aircraft sink the German minesweeper M-471 with rockets in Den Helder.
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So any chnace of getting an air raid on the Allied BB's while they're out on thier own or they disengaging full speed? Congrats on the ship battle! You actually survived an engagement with the raiders for no major losses!
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Grey, can you check to see if some of the lucky ship subs that haven't shown up in years are actually alive and operational, or sunk somewhere? These have all, apparently, been unseen in three or more years according to the Lucky Ships list. I am referring to my own SS Porpoise, SS Salmon, claimed by Leperflesh, SS Skipjack belonging to A White Guy, SS Narwhal belonging to Yorkshire Tea, and SS Wahoo belonging to LeadSled. Hopefully the crews of these subs are just sitting out the war on a tropical beach somewhere drinking fruity beverages. Also, I would have voted for invading Russia in the poll had it been an option, instead of charnel house.
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I've been scouring all the reports for my DD Hibiki but no luck. Hopefully they're hanging out safe in Kure!
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Pickled Tink posted:Grey, can you check to see if some of the lucky ship subs that haven't shown up in years are actually alive and operational, or sunk somewhere? These have all, apparently, been unseen in three or more years according to the Lucky Ships list. I have the USS Parche
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  I'm trying something new here.  I'm going to see if I can get a firestorm going!  Liberators go down en mass!  All bombers hitting Chungking are now hitting manpower. Let the city burn! 
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26 September 1944 USS Pargo torpedoes Aotaka, a minelayer-turned-escort, north of Borneo.
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... Do I want to know how the US has managed to put strategic bombers over in Chunking?
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Those are tactical bombers
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KYOON GRIFFEY JR posted:Those are tactical bombers Given their shorter range, this only raises more questions.
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Gnoman posted:Given their shorter range, this only raises more questions. Ferry ranges are long
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Those are B-25Ds, which belong to the Chinese aircraft pool. Chungking has a bunch of Chinese bomber squadrons that will eventually upgrade to lend-lease B-25Ds. The AI can pretty much pull from replacement pools at will so long as there's some supply. TL;DR lend lease magic got them there.
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 Crap, been very lax at posting these to the thread! Part 18 Part 19 Part 20 Part 21 Part 22 Part 23 Part 24 Is it still worth posting these, or is everyone who is interested already subsbribed to my channel? (spelling mistake left as its funny.) Please subscribe, I like to see pretty numbers go up. makes me feel all important.
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Pickled Tink posted:Grey, can you check to see if some of the lucky ship subs that haven't shown up in years are actually alive and operational, or sunk somewhere? These have all, apparently, been unseen in three or more years according to the Lucky Ships list. I'm Yorkshire Tea and I know the Narwhal ate a hit at Pearl. Perhaps it got scrapped?
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  Of course, the American battleships come back today. We give a good showing though!  Burn Baby Burn.  It's a Chungking inferno!  The number of fires increases.   The Kido Butai finds some trouble on the way home.  My return strike is decisive.  That's a more interesting day! No confirmed kills, but a 300 point score jump – their air wings are gone, so I plan on finishing them off tomorrow! 26,000 fires still burn at Chungking.
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Banzai! The Kido Butai rides again!
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10 Pilots/Frames for 3 CVEs is a pretty good trade!
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Why are the American planes so bad in combat all of a sudden? Are their pilots low experience, or are we using some settings that give an advantage? It feels like about a month ago something decisive shifted and they can't get kills any more.
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Grey was convinced to follow the advice of someone in this thread and spent some time adjusting patrol altitudes and ratios as well as upgrading all the fighters to very capable machines, instead of the aerial mobility scooters he had before
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Gort posted:Why are the American planes so bad in combat all of a sudden? Are their pilots low experience, or are we using some settings that give an advantage? It feels like about a month ago something decisive shifted and they can't get kills any more. CVEs carry Wildcats vs. the CVs that now carry Hellcats and Corsairs and whatnot.
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Niiiiiiiice Grey
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Grey Hunter posted:Crap, been very lax at posting these to the thread! I like having you post them here, I forget to check your youtube
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SerthVarnee posted:the aerial mobility scooters he had before  What happens if you attack into a city in a firestorm
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SerthVarnee posted:Grey was convinced to follow the advice of someone in this thread and spent some time adjusting patrol altitudes and ratios as well as upgrading all the fighters to very capable machines, instead of the aerial mobility scooters he had before Isn't he still flying zero's though?
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Grey, have you accelerated Sam research/production, and we might see them before the end of the year, or are you still not expecting them until 1945?KYOON GRIFFEY JR posted:CVEs carry Wildcats vs. the CVs that now carry Hellcats and Corsairs and whatnot. Ehhh, we've seen a number of CVEs carrying Hellcats during this LP too, even on CVEs of such size they'd likely be regularly be losing some. For whatever reason none of this group were though. Dance Officer posted:Isn't he still flying zero's though? Very late model ones, but yes. They'll generally outperform an FM-2 though, discounting the pilots.
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