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Grey Hunter posted:One more day of this lads, your doing good work. We'll be in San Francisco by Christmas!
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So, Grey has lost ~ 40-50 freighters/transports from the attack on Manus as well as the 25,000 soldiers, and the attack hasn't begun, right?
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wedgekree posted:So, Grey has lost ~ 40-50 freighters/transports from the attack on Manus as well as the 25,000 soldiers, and the attack hasn't begun, right? I'll fullly admit this is more for me than any strategic value.
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Grey Hunter posted:I'll fullly admit this is more for me than any strategic value. Just like the real IJN! Not only does Grey show us the game, he maintains historical accuracy in roleplay too!
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We've got plenty of surface units in the area, can't we have some TFs steam by and unload some shells on the Manus defenders before we restart ground combat? I shotgunned about a year's worth of updates in the last few weeks and...honestly the current situation is really stale. We've been locked in mortal air and naval combat around Rabaul forever now. We've lost a bare handful of islands elsewhere, none of which have seemed to change the strategic picture. The impossibility of taking Chungking was a letdown. The AI is utterly incapable of launching the kind of coordinated attacks that would be fun and interesting to watch and respond to. GH mentioned possibly calling the game early and people were pretty negative towards that idea, but I can't imagine wanting to sit through another year and a half of this kind of grind.
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We need to find out what happens with the huge army currently marching towards india
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Leperflesh posted:We need to find out what happens with the huge army currently marching towards india Narrator: they died
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aphid_licker posted:Narrator: they died
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Dec 24, 2018 15:48
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   Down comes another one!  And another!   There is more dogfighting over Rabaul.   Go away!   I'm readying up the carriers and a bombardment of Manus I plan on giving the Allies a xmas present there! 
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Dec 24, 2018 19:34
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Breaking news from Hong Kong: 2 soldiers reported as casualties after spraining ankles running to watch B-29 crash. Tokyo Rose News at 11.
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Serpentis posted:Breaking news from Hong Kong: 2 soldiers reported as casualties after spraining ankles running to watch B-29 crash. Tokyo Rose News at 11. And it was enough to disable the squad. Must have been the officers 
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Jonny Nox posted:And it was enough to disable the squad. Must have been the officers Nah, the NCOs. Everyone knows lieutenants don't know gently caress all.
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Dec 25, 2018 16:05
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Merry Christmas Grey
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Merry Christmas, Mr Grey!
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Merry Christmas Grey!
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Dec 25, 2018 18:57
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Merry Christmas Grey!
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Dec 25, 2018 19:12
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Merry Christmas! Your dedication to weird grognard games remains amazing.
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Grey Christmas Merry
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Merry Christmas Grey.
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Merry Grey Christmas.
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Happy Boxing Day Grey!
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Merr Crimbiz Grey
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Merīkurisumasu Grey
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   Here our troops play Santa to the poor Allies in Chittagong. Apparently what they asked for was a bunch of free kills as we go after motorboats of all things!  My bombardment force covered a pitiful amount of ground apparently.  Yesssss.  Welcome to the new situation on Manus time to get off my island guys!  Not even xmas day off? You bastards.  Manus looks to be turning a corner now. I hope you all have a great Christmas, and may all your gifts be groggy in nature!
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  I spotted this task force just before running the turn and decided to send my boys out. Turns out it was a good idea! Flush with success the crews.....  . decide to get a bit cocky. Welp, time to turn the carriers around!  The last of the forts go down, and now its time to take this island!  Two superforts today!  My flak gunners have their range now.  No! bad!  An up and down day, but my spreadsheet tells me I won it by 22 points!  At least she was an old light cruiser!
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Well, I think we can definitively say that light cruisers have been the most brutalized standard class of warships, by percentage, under Grey's leadership. The IJN gets 25 of them total, and 17 of them have been sunk now - and we still have to see if Tenryu manages to survive this sortie. That's over two thirds of them gone. Comparatively, he's lost 5/18 heavy cruisers, 4/12 battleships, and 3/13 fleet carriers (9/26 carriers of all types). Slightly over 30 destroyers lost too, but they get well over 100 of those.
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A 12000 yd fight with a massively larger ship whose main guns will gently caress a light cruiser's poo poo up in a single hit. Tough break.
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Japanese CLs are pieces of poo poo compared to their CAs. The Agano class has 3 double 6 gun turrets, while US CLs like the Cleveland class had 12 6 rifles, and thats their most modern design. Tenryu has four 5.5 rifles total. They are less well armed than US destroyers and should be nowhere near combat. The only thing they do well is have a conversion to CLAA later.
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  The bombardment force arrives to make things worse for the defenders of Manus.  Why can I only shoot these things down one at a time?  The bombardment does its work, and breaks the morale of the defenders. Half starved, they surrender. I have captured an allied base in late 1945.  That was a good day. Now to figure out what to do with the troops there! Two more damaged ships go down.
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Dec 27, 2018 19:09
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Grey Hunter posted:I have captured an allied base in late 1945. I've got some bad news
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Grey Hunter posted:I have captured an allied base in late 1945. Somebody save this. I want to see this as a self fulfilling prophecy, and a challenge to Grey.
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Grey Hunter posted:
I have some bad news for IJA command. Being an IJN loyalest I will deliver it at the worst possible time.
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I wonder what the takeaway from the eternal struggle over Manus will for the US Army? Be more like the IJA and use less tanks?
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In all our mockery of the years thing, We missed pointing out he posted the same screenshot twice.
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overmind2000 posted:I wonder what the takeaway from the eternal struggle over Manus will for the US Army? Be more like the IJA and use less tanks? Clearly, the tank exists to fill the role of an armored beachhead defense platform. In the future, we will develop self-entrenching mobile bunkers to make our footholds unassailable.
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wiegieman posted:Clearly, the tank exists to fill the role of an armored beachhead defense platform. In the future, we will develop self-entrenching mobile bunkers to make our footholds unassailable. Now imagining the timeline where  was built on a tunnel boring rig.
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overmind2000 posted:I wonder what the takeaway from the eternal struggle over Manus will for the US Army? Be more like the IJA and use less tanks? No, not fewer tanks - More battleships. With treads, for inland theaters.
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Excellent work Grey! Now go retake Rota in the Marianas before the Americans put a billion Superforts on it and start burning your cities to the ground.
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Log082 posted:No, not fewer tanks - More battleships. With treads, for inland theaters. *valkyria chronicles intensifies*
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