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So are those claims considered accurate at this point? Nice month! Three carriers and one BB if so.
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Grey Hunter posted:
This is a very rare ship, a floating dry dock. The US only gets a handful, I think fewer than half a dozen, and as far as I know the Japanese only get the one. I'm not sure what the stats are on it - the low points value suggests that it may be too small to be useful. The full-sized ones that the US gets are great. I can't find any information about the irl version of this ship online.
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OpenlyEvilJello posted:Was it November 1944 that saw the no-CAP fiasco in the Allied game? i would like to know more
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https://lparchive.org/War-in-the-Pacific/Update%201056/ The no CAP disaster starts this update and ends the one after that. Grey loses Lexington, Wasp and Hornet to kamikazes because he doesn't have enough planes on CAP Dance Officer fucked around with this message at 15:59 on Dec 2, 2018 |
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Yiiiiiiiikesquote:With every hit I think, “The thread is going to kill me” 
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Mans posted:i would like to know more I just remember it well because it was the same time I was fed up with my old job and started interviewing elsewhere. Then a new place of employment, 6 years later and two promotions I'm much happier.
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Oh my god, that just came out of nowhere  "We intercepted two desperate supply convoys near Saipan, another fort level was smashed in China. Oh, four carriers are burning?"
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   Their still bombing Hong Kong.   Rabaul is still seeing a lot of air to air combat, and it's no longer going my way.  We do bring down another Liberator though!  That's a lot of Hell divers. That's at least two fleet carriers. Even if I had the planes I'd think twice about engaging this force!   I'm loading two large forces to attack Manus, but there is little I can do about those carriers!  I wonder if any subs remain I can send out? The answer is of course no.
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 meMy lucky ship that I chose before discovering it did warcrimes has died without honour. Splode fucked around with this message at 06:55 on Dec 3, 2018 |
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Grey Hunter posted:
 My ship! Stay away from my ship, you big bullies!Fly closer, I want to hit you with my sword!
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  The enemy try and land troops at Manus, but my fast transport squad drive them off.  At Truk, the Arizona savages our airfield, but the fortress does a good amount of damage to the allied battleship.  At least we got a torpedo in before we got hit.  I hope those are tanks!  Take that!  They killed a superfortress!  Another brutal day out there, but most of the damage is on them.  As are all the sinkings!
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What the hell were B-29s even doing at 12,000ft?
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Hong Kong is going to get nuked by the end of this, isn't it.
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What caliber naval guns are at Truk?
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Lord Koth posted:What the hell were B-29s even doing at 12,000ft? Ruthlessly exploiting skip-bombing mechanics for the B-29 age 
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KYOON GRIFFEY JR posted:What caliber naval guns are at Truk? TOE of Truk Naval fort shows a total of 62 coastal defense and dual purpose guns, from heavy cruiser to destroyer size. 4 heavy cruiser guns (8") 23 light cruiser guns ~6" (3x15.5cm, 19x15cm, 4x14cm) 31 destroyer guns (27x12.7cm, 4x12cm) 4 smaller 8cm
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Caconym posted:TOE of Truk Naval fort shows a total of 62 coastal defense and dual purpose guns, from heavy cruiser to destroyer size. That doesn't seem like very many guns at all. For the so called 'Gibraltar of the Pacific', thats less guns at a major fleet anchorage then was at Iwo.
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According to the 'pedia, Iwo only had 33 naval guns of 8cm caliber or greater edit: Gibraltar only had 8 9.2" and some number of 6" guns (I found 14 as a number from WWI) KYOON GRIFFEY JR fucked around with this message at 01:34 on Dec 4, 2018 |
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3 December 1944 Skirmishing in Ormoc Bay claims both a Japanese escort destroyer (Kuwa) and an American destroyer (Cooper). Southeast of Hainan, USS Pipefish torpedoes the escort No. 64.
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KYOON GRIFFEY JR posted:According to the 'pedia, Iwo only had 33 naval guns of 8cm caliber or greater I suppose. My frame of reference was Singapore and Manila bay.
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Caconym posted:TOE of Truk Naval fort shows a total of 62 coastal defense and dual purpose guns, from heavy cruiser to destroyer size. I appreciate you posting this. During one of the earlier bombardments a while back I tried finding any information like this and came up with squat.
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... Is it possible to get more heavy caliber guns to Truk as they seem to be doing an excellent job of whatever they're doing? And are you in any shape there to try and get some airstrikes in on the Arizona and the Repulse presuming they stay within air range in the next couple turns if you can throw together some bombers?
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Grey Hunter posted:
Godspeed my lucky darling, save your strength for the Tokyo Bay endboss.
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  I catch another task force one hex from Rabaul – loaded with troops and going down.  We follow up and finish off the stragglers. Just another day in the Imperial navy.  Another force takes out some unloaded ships.  Another suicide run.   One of our ships takes a hit.  Any day a couple of thousand Allied troops go down with their ships is a good one!  That was a proper slaughter!
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So the Allies tried to send a troop landing that was mostly unescorted (okay the DE's with the task force count as an escort) to land at Rabaul. Nothing new there. Any chance of landing some heavy weapons to Rabaul to join in the shelling?
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Nah, both were Fletchers, so actual proper and modern destroyers. Only another 127 or so to go (counting those that are assumed sunk, Grey's sunk 48 so far, vs. a historical 19 sunk + 6 beyond repair).
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So the Allies only have another 200-300 escorts they can throw in the Pacific?
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The victorious surface raids carried out by the japanese are plainly ridiculous. can we have an Alfred Thayer Mahan version of this: 
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4 December 1944 USS Flasher torpedoes the destroyer Kishinami west of Luzon.
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  More PT boats hit the bottom.  Meanwhile, we savage some more transports.  I think I came off better in this trade.  Down goes another superfort!   We see some heavy fighting in Burma.  A good day at sea and in the air!  Four PT boats? That's interesting.
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every time your ships go up against patrol boats i'm terrified that someone'll gently caress up and eat a bunch of torpedoes for what is effectively nothing
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Ron Jeremy posted:What is an effective use of PT boats in this game? I use them to guard forward bases. Half a dozen PT boats can be the difference between a base getting quietly taken overnight and the landing force getting scared off or at least delaying long enough for reinforcements to arrive. In my game, PT boats actually crippled Shokaku when it sailed too close to Canton Island at night in early 42.
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What is the name of the operation to invade India and how soon until we see them run into resistance?
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At this point I'm hoping that one of the Allied suicide runs on Rabaul actually manages to seize the port somehow, it would be funny at the very least.
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Yes, it's like a lava lamp.
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IIRC we already suffered at least one torpedo oopsie against PT boats in this LP
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  We have another good showing over Burma.  Planes are lost at Hong Kong.  Owch, that's a fair few losses!  We actually came out pretty even on plane losses there in the end. 
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Seconding the request to give an update on the progress of the India army. How close are they?
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