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I can just imagine a unit leaving the Siege Of Chungking and as the map table is folded up they come across a misplaced sealed envelope labeled 'Operation Charnel House' from IJA High Command dated six months ago. After some discussion the date is changed to today, the envelope is dropped off at HQ and the unit marches off to India, laughing all the way.
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I know! I was just pointing out to people I didn't just order a shock attack!
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Grey Hunter posted:I know! I was just pointing out to people I didn't just order a shock attack! A small detour would have saved the lives of your pixelmen :-) You did kill the betties, trim the range of the rabaul betties back to 5 hexes and set the search arcs for the betties ad any other search planes to : counterclockwise and 240 to 130 degrees
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18 October 1944 Escort (ex-minelayer) Maeshima is beached on Luzon following air attack. HMAS Geelong sinks after colliding with SS York near New Guinea.
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barman posted:and set the search arcs for the betties ad any other search planes to : counterclockwise and 240 to 130 degrees This is seriously part of the game? Jesus, playing this must be a pain in the rear end!
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SavageGentleman posted:This is seriously part of the game? Jesus, playing this must be a pain in the rear end! It's available, but it's generally only used when you're trying to play very optimally (typically against a fellow human). You can leave search arcs blank and be perfectly fine most of the time. I forget if the AI sends available planes on search/ASW patrol in randomly determined directions or if it searches the whole area with a penalty if you leave the arcs blank. Personally, I don't set arcs because doing so can involve a metric fuckton of clicking if you do it for more than a handful of squadrons. Adjusting a single base's search groups to avoid areas in frontline areas where Allies have fighters based is a decent and not-too-burdensome option. The other is to reduce all Betties' range to match that of the longest-legged fighters set to escort missions. Unfortunately, the fighters available to Japan that can keep up with their Allied counterparts don't quite have the range of the Zero. Speaking of fighter range, you might be delightfully horrified to learn that you have to order individual squadrons whether or not to equip drop tanks 
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Weren't the search arcs bugged in a previous version so that planes would only fly outside the set arc?
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   I could have done without that torpedo hit!  Please stop.   Down they come.   We are entering the last days of the battle of Wake.   Wake's had a good run, but it'll still be painful to lose  A nice little haul today.
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19 October 1944 The final ex-Italian torpedo boat commandeered by the Germans in the Aegean, TA-18 (ex-Solferino) is beached after heavy damage by British destroyers.
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Is our current allocation of men/supplies/army planes/navy attention at Wake a rational representative of its point value, or did we regrettably deprioritize it?
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Cn you try and rebase the planes at Wake so you don't lose them? Looks like you had a sizble group there.
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lol, didn't the end-of-turn summary one say "Stratigic Report" for like a few months, or was that the Soviet front LP? It's a feature, not a bug.
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  Two more dead Betties.  The ships docked at Truk get a visit from the carrier fairies.  We see normal fighting over Rabaul.  Bloody hell, this is out of nowhere.  They are still hanging around.  Our last stronghold in New Caledonia is lost.  We trade planes over Burma.  Well, that was a bad day! I'm not sure I like this new competent Allied command! I am of course sending the Kido Butai out to have a go at stopping this!  Yeah, that hurts.
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  More planes fed to a carrier.  So many losses.  They hit Wake once again.  Wake will be gone in a few days.
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I'm surprised the Ki-84s are getting so destroyed, weren't they supposed to be pretty good fighters?
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Night10194 posted:I'm surprised the Ki-84s are getting so destroyed, weren't they supposed to be pretty good fighters? They are, but Imperial Command has a policy to put good pilots in crappy planes and crappy pilots in good planes and further to combine it with the wrong settings ;-) A good exampe is in the printscreen of 08/10 which reads: "F6F-3 Hellcat diving on Ki-84a Frank" If you want to intercept enemy planes you should not fly below the planes you want to intercept, but above them Swapping pilots or putting all the Franks on max height will help , but that is not the bushido way Grey plays And we do get some interesting results, who else would have a combat air patrol of only 8 unarmored planes at one of his major naval frontline bases :-)
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21 October 1944 Russian MTBs claim M-31, another German minesweeper, off Honningsvaag in northern Norway. Also, 20 October saw the American invasion of the Philippines commence. No associated naval losses... yet.
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OpenlyEvilJello posted:21 October 1944 Hindsight is 20/20, but reading through the next few days, its just mistake after mistake by Halsey.
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Marko Ramius, Soviet MTB commander posted:Hindsight is 20/20, but reading through the next few days, its just mistake after mistake by Halsey.
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Saint Celestine posted:Hindsight is 20/20, but reading through the next few days, its just mistake after mistake by Halsey. https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=PB-oQ8_onz8
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Acebuckeye13 posted:Hello there! Are you looking for adventure? Excitement? The chance to die for your country, or to at least make the other bastard die for his? Come get stuck in with us! I promise I'll get your boys killed in new, interesting, and gruesome ways!
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habeasdorkus posted:Come get stuck in with us! I promise I'll get your boys killed in new, interesting, and gruesome ways! That's a pretty high standard you're setting for yourself considering the number of interesting and gruesome ways we've seen the Allied AI kill it's pixelmen in this thread.
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  Well, we know what they have now – these are some late repairs heading home at the wrong time!  God drat it! I just fixed that!  The worst part is you can see the Kido Butai to the south – presumably just out of range.   Still bombing – because why not?  Well, that was a sucky day – I though they were still further north!  It could be worse though – the battleship took most of the hits, and both ships will make it – as long as the Kido Butai distract the carrier tomorrow!  We get a CVE confirmed, always good!
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  We get a hit, but they chase our sub down.  This is going to be a knife fight!  I lose most of my planes, but get two fish into the target – it most likely won't sink her, but I have battleships on hand as always.  A second strike splashes.  A third gets a bomb into the flight deck – not going to sink her, but it will stop her launching planes.  We take a hit in return.  No CAP makes the afternoon strike much easier. They seem to have run out of flak ammo as well!  Oh look, a battleship – maybe combat support, maybe an invasion force.  A second torpedo hit will force her to head for home. We may get lucky and see her sink on the way there!  It all kicked off today! I lost most of my planes, but we have an opportunity to hurt them now!  Call me cocky, but the switch in bomber targets and the 322 point jump (AFTER losing over a hundred planes) makes me think this is real!  To make things even better – the bomb strike was a near miss! A fantastic day. Unless you
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habeasdorkus posted:Come get stuck in with us! I promise I'll get your boys killed in new, interesting, and gruesome ways! Be like the IJN and kill those American devils!
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What the hell is with all these carrier groups getting within artillery range of each other  Like I'm pretty sure that the lookouts on the Ticonderoga and the Kido Butai are able to flip each other the finger and be seen via binocular Crazycryodude fucked around with this message at 18:36 on Oct 23, 2018 |
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Well, Grey, have you ever heard of the term Pyrrhic Victory?
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Aren't you not supposed to run like 10 carriers in a single TF?
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bunnyofdoom posted:Well, Grey, have you ever heard of the term Pyrrhic Victory? I can replace the planes and the pilots were green, so the losses will be made good in a week or so.
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Of course....The same can be said of the american carrier.
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23 October 1944 Japanese fleet units are converging on the Philippines; US submarines lie in wait. Sawfish torpedoes the seaplane carrier Kimikawa Maru west of Luzon. Bream torpedoes the cruiser Aoba south of Luzon; she limps to Kure but repairs remain incomplete at war's end. Kurita's Center Force practically runs over Darter and Dace, giving them great shots at his heavy cruisers: Atago (flag) and Maya sink rapidly, while Takao eventually made it to Singapore, where, beyond repair, she became part of the antiaircraft defenses. Pursuing Takao, Darter ran aground on the Bombay Shoal and had to be abandoned.
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Killing a fleet carrier this late in the war is great work.
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The US Penny Packet doctrine must be driving their midlevel commanders (and especially their Marine commanders) crazy.
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OpenlyEvilJello posted:Pursuing Takao, Darter ran aground on the Bombay Shoal and had to be abandoned. That's one hell of a way to lose your submarine 
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