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dublish posted:Smash your face against Chungking and call it a moral victory. This AI is going nowhere.
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Wow, 178 Tojos up in the air has got to be a scary sight. Delete half the troops in Chungking every month to simulate the other half of the troops eating them.
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Decoy Badger posted:Wow, 178 Tojos up in the air has got to be a scary sight. Holy poo poo, that's actually a great idea. The lack of J-Rations has driven them all mad.
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Epicurius posted:It makes sense, if you think about it. How else was the Japanese Army going to handle naval operations? Rely on the Navy? poo poo like this is why I have such a hard time suspending my disbelief when watching The Man in the High Castle.
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ThatBasqueGuy posted:I just want to see Grey roll into Chunking and turn right around and march them into Siberia/India
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I think realistically the defenders of Chungking would simply surrender by now. A besieged population usually is holding out in hope of relief, but there is no hope of relief short of Japan losing the war outright, and there is no indication from current events of that happening either. The defenders don't know how badly Japan is losing the production race vs. America... from their perspective, China is entirely lost, Japan is holding most of its claimed territory bar a few unimportant tiny islands, it is winning the air war, and is generally not suffering horrible attrition at sea, either. Why would they keep fighting, especially given starvation, inevitable disease, and (again, with any hint of realism) total lack of resupply for warfighting either?
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Moon Slayer posted:poo poo like this is why I have such a hard time suspending my disbelief when watching The Man in the High Castle. There was, I think it was a Mitsubishi plant, that was researching aircraft for both the army and navy, and they had to build seperate facilities within the plant, even a seperate cafeteria and offices and seperate entrances for the army and the navy projects. Each part of the facility was guarded and padlocked, and it was grounds for termination for an employee from one section to be in the other section.
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In this situation I wonder if there'd be some pressure among CPC sympathizers in Chungking to seize power and offer up a surrender in order to secure some kind of postwar provisional government agreement with Japan. The KMT can't be very popular at the moment.
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Epicurius posted:There was, I think it was a Mitsubishi plant, that was researching aircraft for both the army and navy, and they had to build seperate facilities within the plant, even a seperate cafeteria and offices and seperate entrances for the army and the navy projects. Each part of the facility was guarded and padlocked, and it was grounds for termination for an employee from one section to be in the other section. Never stop Japanese rivalry between branches,
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on the other hand, being Chinese surrendering to Japanese is uh... not an attractive proposition either
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I though the whole joke behind grognard games was people pretend they're this hyper-real simulation of a war but at their core they're just as arbitrary as any other strategy game, just clothed in history? Real-world Chunking would be a pile of rubble but there are a thousand other things that would need fixing if realism as our actual goal.
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My reason for voting to delete all/most defenders is cause the current standstill is kinda boring and I rather want to see all those pixel men to suffer whatever decision GH decides to do in lieu of staring at the gateway to the endless meat, bullet and airfield dimension.
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Oct 3, 2018 09:40
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Yea, the current situation is boring, I want to see Japanese troops get crushed in India/Manchuria in 1945, if you have someone to hotseat with delete them.
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Nothingtoseehere posted:Yea, the current situation is boring, I want to see Japanese troops get crushed in India/Manchuria in 1945, if you have someone to hotseat with delete them. An alternative is to have the Allied AI taken over by a human player If Grey sinks 300 ships with troops and some carriers, he has his autovictory Having the AI taken over by a human player gives a challenge to Grey, to still make the auto victory and to the allied player to avert it No more stupid invasions, but some proper combat .... and a very interesting LP
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   My subs are having a bad time of it.  That's a supply ship for Truk gone.  Owch, they've been busy!   Lets set the fires again.   I've said it before, and I'll say it again – God drat the Combat system, and all who programmed it.  It's even a negative sinking day!
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japanese troops ; 14 K japanese vehicels 22 allied troops; 11K Allied vehicles 464
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nr of allied vehicles lost : 15 One word : TANKS !!
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I don't think that's a combat model issue. You're sending men into the jaws of late war American armor!
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I actually meant he should bring some :-) He is probably up against some AA units, they have 100 motorized support and are very proficient against infantry attacks with those 0.5in M51 Quad AAMG's and 40 mm Bofors The combat model mirrors the effect of a Quad AAMG against a soft target and seems to be doing a fine job
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Unless the allies got more units ashore those vehicles are all trucks. At last count the allied units present were an AA regiment, a base force and probably a HQ unit of some kind. Allied base AV of 16 also match up well. Tanks are worth 1 AV each.
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3 October 1944 DE USS Shelton is torpedoed off Morotai by the Japanese submarine RO-41, later sinking under tow. It is thought that American ships hunting RO-41 sank USS Seawolf by mistake.
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The masses of engineers that appear to be present are a problem. They'll produce forts out of thin air overnight.
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Yeah. There are no tanks there, just engineers.
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I think barman's point is that Japanese tanks are needed to counter the anti-soft abilities of the Allied defenders.
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Grey Hunter posted:
Its a submarine. Sinking and remaining in service is what it does.
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Maybe the thing to do at Chunking is to just leave a large enough force to pin the defenders, then have everyone else march off to India.
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That's what I wanted to do, but people demand blood.
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I voted to not edit, because yes the game is broken, but that's the point of Let's Plays - exploring a game' quirks and successes and weak points.
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Grey Hunter posted:That's what I wanted to do, but people demand blood. Blood for the blood god!
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Gort posted:Maybe the thing to do at Chunking is to just leave a large enough force to pin the defenders, then have everyone else march off to India. I have doubts wrt India being more interesting tbh.
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goatface posted:The masses of engineers that appear to be present are a problem. They'll produce forts out of thin air overnight. Considering the amount of digging that must be going on for fortifications, it’s probable that Grayverse jokes about digging a hole so deep that you reach China will end up reversed
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  I haven't blown Buna up in a while.   Hey, this actually worked for once!  Wake's getting invaded again!  A base force arrives and is destroyed.  How many more men will they throw away at Wake?  Killing an escort is always a nice touch.
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4 October 1944 HMCS Chebogue, a frigate, loses her stern to U-1227's homing torpedo. Though the ship survived to be towed to Wales, she was never repaired.
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OpenlyEvilJello posted:4 October 1944 The... stern fell off?!? This is most irregular and I do not care for it
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At this point historically, 1007 of 1156 commissioned boats had been built. 598 of these had been lost, about a 60% loss rate. Imagine being the poor bastard stuck in one of those things!
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Decoy Badger posted:At this point historically, 1007 of 1156 commissioned boats had been built. 598 of these had been lost, about a 60% loss rate. Imagine being the poor bastard stuck in one of those things! What percentage of the kriegsmarine was sunk at this point in the war irl?
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For warships of destroyer displacement and heavier, about 50% depending on your definition. But these include a large amount of scuttling where the majority of crew (~50%) survived - a crewman on a U-boat, in contrast, had about a 20% chance of surviving a sinking.
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Compartmentalization. Prayer.
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