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I'm glad that the Royal Navy is living up to it's reputation under Grey! It took long enough.
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Holy loving poo poo 
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Dec 14, 2018 05:33
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This may be the bloodiest week of the LP.
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Dec 14, 2018 06:06
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The bloodiest probably still belongs to any week with an offensive in Chunking.
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Dec 14, 2018 14:30
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Only if you're a *scoff* IJA sympathizer
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Dec 14, 2018 16:27
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Dance Officer posted:The bloodiest probably still belongs to any week with an offensive in Chunking. Only in my dreams.
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Dec 14, 2018 19:00
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   Operation Silk Road is bombed today – which tells me they have seen tens of thousands of men marching up to cause chaos.   Down goes another battleship!  Striking south was a really good idea!  This is only a cargo ship, but still a good kill.  We have a bad day here.  But nothing like the bad day the Allies are having to the south!   It can't all go my way – we take more heavy losses – apparently cargo ships can't flee from carriers that well.  You know the story here.  These destroyers are laden with survivors. Poor buggers.   A cheap shot on the way out of the day.   No sign of the QE, and with one confirmed kill, its almost balanced up the loss of two heavily laden troop convoys. Almost.  It's brutal out there.
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Dec 14, 2018 19:04
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At least the RN dies in this timeline too
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Dec 14, 2018 19:07
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GREYYYYYYYYYYYYYYY Where's the nearest RAF base? Express delivery to Tokyo! 
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Dec 14, 2018 19:23
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So how many American soldiers and Marine, British soldiers, Commonwealth soldiers, and anything else solider-wise on the Allied side did Grey wiped out so far?
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Dec 14, 2018 19:31
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So, still no LRCAP from Guam to cover those transports, eh
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Dec 14, 2018 20:18
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Land-based LRCAP over transports is pretty hard to pull off. There isn’t any clear “cover this convoy” order you can give. Even assuming you set the orders properly, you’re talking about locating and covering the convoy at pretty long range. The squadron might not go to the right place, or it might suffer a lot of ops losses, etc.
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Dec 14, 2018 20:24
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Ow. Just ow.
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Dec 14, 2018 20:54
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Bold Robot posted:Land-based LRCAP over transports is pretty hard to pull off. There isn’t any clear “cover this convoy” order you can give. Even assuming you set the orders properly, you’re talking about locating and covering the convoy at pretty long range. The squadron might not go to the right place, or it might suffer a lot of ops losses, etc. I'm fairly certain that I've set LRCAP over specific TFs before, there is a select target button for that mission.
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Dec 14, 2018 20:58
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Generation Internet posted:I'm fairly certain that I've set LRCAP over specific TFs before, there is a select target button for that mission. Will that target the TF though, or just the hex where you first click it? Of course it should be the former but I’m not certain that it isn’t the latter.
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Dec 14, 2018 21:14
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The Pacific sea will turn into a giant coral of human bodies holy poo poo.
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Dec 14, 2018 21:49
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Bold Robot posted:Will that target the TF though, or just the hex where you first click it? Of course it should be the former but I’m not certain that it isn’t the latter. I was trying to protect things running in/out of Rangoon the other day and I'm fairly certain it popped up as saying "TF 453 targeted" or something like that, I think it even worked with multiple TFs in the hex but maybe that was just my imagination.
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Dec 14, 2018 21:57
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what do you know, it works The number in parens is the hexes away.
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Dec 14, 2018 22:12
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Huh, no poo poo. Probably could have saved a lot of guys around Rangoon in the winter of 41-42 if I knew that.
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Dec 14, 2018 22:19
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And in this case, Guam was two hexes away, although of course the transports were much farther away to start with Buut, it's just yet more awful micromanagement. I just figured after yesterday's turkey shoot, if there were more troop transports in the same area, maybe it'd be worthwhile to try.
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Dec 14, 2018 22:40
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Soo, how many men and ships has Grey lost in this week? 25-30 cargo ships/transports? 2-3 light cruisers? 4-6 escorts/DD's and at least 35,000 or so men? And couple hundred planes?
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  The day starts with a cheeky surface attack.  Nice showing guys!  We have to claw back those losses somehow.  The carriers keep carrying on.  That's it, I'm benching the planes here – and should have days ago.  Kudos to their warrior spirit though!  Another wounded destroyer is picked off.  We can put up a fight on the defensive at least!  All bombers at Guam have been stood down. Lets see what we can do now!  Look intelligence, I know your trying to make me feel better, but at least use a more recent ship. Eh?
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Dec 15, 2018 19:15
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13 December 1944 Japanese fast transport T-12, torpedoed by USS Pintado southeast of Formosa. 14 December 1944 Japanese escort No. 28, torpedoed west of Luzon by USS Blenny. Escort destroyer HMS Aldenham, mined southeast of Pola. 15 December 1944 Japanese escort No. 54, sunk in the Luzon Straits by US carrier aircraft, and escort destroyer Momo, torpedoed west of Luzon by USS Hawkbill.
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Leperflesh posted:So, still no LRCAP from Guam to cover those transports, eh I'd rather ask why they were still there three days after the allied carriers had rolled in. It looks like they actually kept closing in on Guam instead of ditching the damaged ships and getting the gently caress out northwards.
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Dec 16, 2018 04:20
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  Worst. Bombardment. Ever. We really lay into both battleships and leave them burning.  Liberators. Easy prey.   The battle over Hong Kong continues.  Given his screen time, I'm going to assume the “S” stands for Sean.  Just go away!  Fuel cargo burning. Such lovely words.  This one seems to have been empty.  My pilots get cocky and attack a base. Losses are incurred on both sides.  I do love target rich environments.  A nice series of hits there – a couple of burning battleships is a nice addon – they won't sink, but they will need some repairs.  One of my wounded ships goes down.
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Dec 16, 2018 19:07
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Your gunners on Truk probably rose an eyebrow as they watched countless shells slam into the ocean next to them, before carefully aiming and blasting these fools. Seriously, were the BBs trying to starve your base by blowing up all the fish?
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Dec 16, 2018 21:55
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Those BBs getting clowned on by coastal guns is nuts.
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Dec 16, 2018 22:34
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Kind of crazy that US battleships, supposed queens of bombardment, are getting smacked about by base defence guns, while IJN battleships are breaking all the rules. Again.
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Is it possible to get airstrikes on the BB's or will they be out of range before you can throw some torpedo planes at them? Also congrats! Get some more fighters to Guam, Hong Kong, and Truk and reinforce the planes there. Also well done in etting the tankers - those will hopefully make a difference! That's what - 3-4 sunk or heavily damaged? And get more coastal guns to Truk. Your gunners should learn from the best! Those BB's were WW1 rebuilds right? wedgekree fucked around with this message at 05:39 on Dec 17, 2018 |
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Dec 17, 2018 05:37
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what size guns you got at Truk?
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Two WWI era refits take on a rock literally bristling with guns, get clowned on. Its important to remeber that the times in WW2 where BBs took on islands, they had the advantage of being backed by US airpower. Its much easier to slam several tons of munitions into the earth when anybody who could shoot back at you is being suppressed by Helldivers and F6Fs.
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KYOON GRIFFEY JR posted:what size guns you got in your Trunks?
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  Their super-fortresses have moved to hitting Canton.  Bloody CAP.  It's like a allied arms fair.  That's a better hit.  A good defence today!  We take losses here, but they take more.  I think I've cleared out the easy targets down south today. 
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KYOON GRIFFEY JR posted:what size guns you got at Truk? Caconym was kind enough to post this a while back in the thread, im guessing from looking it up in game: 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 Not exactly the finger of God or anything, but probably enough to make a BB spend some extra time docked at the repair yard instead of doing something useful
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Not a bad showing by your aircraft today! Good luck with havig some time to get new fighters deployed up and out and getting some updates in if you're getting the latest models online and figuring out deployments.
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  Oh hi there your majesty!  Two liberators? Is it BOGOF day?  No, I have no idea what she was doing out there.  That's it, whittle them down.  A quieter day.  Shame about the crusier. Maybe she should have followed orders to not get sunk.
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Nagara was the lead of her class when she launched in 1921. It was a dumpy old cruiser by 1944, but still could run with destroyers. She was most prominent as part of the battle of Guadalcanal I made of model of her when I was in my 20s. Its mortal remains are still in my house somewhere. Jonny Nox fucked around with this message at 20:18 on Dec 18, 2018 |
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She's, uh, not much of a looker
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Grey Hunter posted:
Pretty sure what you did there is illegal in your country and MI-whatever is on their way
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It's still legal until they get PM Rees-Mogg and then it'll be cause for internment at the Tower.
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